n-ZO in Retail
Every facet of retailing operations is driven by data. From radio frequency identification (RFID) to online retailing to supply chain and inventory management, automated retail systems need to act on massive amounts of data. In addition, much of this data must be repeatedly presented to the application after access from multiple, disparate systems like legacy mainframes, databases, and file-systems. Data management becomes a significant challenge as these firms strive to achieve operational efficiencies.

The n-ZO Enterprise Information Fabric provides a distributed operational information fabric that instantaneously provides information whenever and wherever it is needed. Its inherent distributed nature enables it to hold large volumes of data in memory across multiple servers and scale to meet the data needs of a retail enterprise. It also supports intelligent data analytics and event processing to enable real-time decision-making and identification of business opportunities. This helps weed out unnecessary data to focus on events or data subsets that are relevant.

n-ZO solutions can aid retailers in improving their online retailing operations, address their RFID data processing and analysis needs, and promote real-time information visibility for pricing, merchandizing, and promotions planning.

Benefits of n-ZO include:

• Avoids Redundant Disk and Database Access.
  n-ZO virtualizes distributed data dynamically across the hardware and software boundaries of the enterprise.
• Enables Cross-Application Collaboration.
  n-ZO increases performance by enabling distributed in-memory, cross application, data exchange via C, Java, or XML. Performance significantly increases when data is cached in-memory instead of staged in a database.
• Positions Data Close to Point of Use
  n-ZO enhances the performance of portals, applications, application servers and systems by storing data that is accessed multiple times by programs, groups of users or by a single user who is massaging the data.
• Reduce Network Load
  Caching data close to point of use prevents unnecessary re-transmission of data across the network for each user. This contributes to a reduction in network load.
• Enhances Survivability of Distributed Applications
  The distributed n-ZO cache enables applications to continue to work with data that was retrieved before a network outage.
• Turbo-charges Web Services-Based Applications
  n-ZO significantly enhances XML performance in a Web services environment. It stores XML documents in optimized cache, thus minimizing data access time and storage space in memory. This is one of the critical challenges in a Web Services implementation.
• Boosts performance and scalability for Java Applications
  n-ZO enables Java applications to access additional memory outside of their process space and thus manipulates more data.
• Enable Multiple Computers to Seamlessly Share Memory
  n-ZO can create a data-space that spans multiple computers memories. This capability can be used to allow n-ZO caches on 32 bit computers to share memory with 64 bit computers that are virtually unlimited in the amount of memory they can address. This capability can also be used to allow computers in a Grid of blade server environment to appear to have a single large memory space, instead of having a group of disjointed individual memory spaces.

n-ZO Industry Solutions
Organizations across various industries are bracing for changes that will help them increase their operational efficiency, profitability, and customer service while minimizing risk. However, data management is a significant hurdle to success. n-ZO solutions offer the necessary ingredients to help companies align information strategies with critical business initiatives. 
Learn more about how n-ZO can help address the data management needs in the following industries:

Banking & Mortgage
Capital Markets
Energy
Healthcare
Insurance
Manufacturing
Retail
Technology