Boston meeting - June, 2018
Thank you to everyone that was able to attend.
Before the RDTF session meetings, Tuesday started with OMG hosting a special session on Location-Based Technology & Analytics in Retail with Special speakers;Mike Drow (T2 Ssytems), I-Ping Li (Deloitte Consulting), Josh Lieberman (Harvard Center for Geo Analysis/Open Geospacial Consortium), Andy Mattice (Lexmark International), and Steve Rowan (RSR).
This was an excellent series of presentations and discussions on uses of location information in Retail scenarios.
Meeting started on time 8:50am, Wednesday June20th, 2018 and completed after noon on Thursday June 21st, 2018
Completed introductions, many existing ARTS members, with a couple attending via WebEx
Meeting attendance for both days includes:
- John Glaubitz - Vertex Inc.
- Leonid Rubakhin - Aptos
- Bart McGlothin - Cisco
- Karen Shunk - OMG
- David Miller - Bizerba
- Angela Seidel - GK Software
- Nancy Smallwood - Vertex Inc.
- JD Baker - Sparx Systems
- Dennis Gerson - IBM
- Vivian Underwood - GS1
- Andy Mattice - Lexmark
- Elisa Kendall - Martix
- Denis Kuniß (WebEx) - Diebold Nixdorf Global Solutions B.V.
- Gerald Armentrout (WebEx) - Toshiba
- Richard Halter (WebEx) - Global Retail Advisors
- Roland Zalisevskij (WebEx) - Service Plus IT
Quick overview of our open workgroup efforts for Video Analytics, UnifiedPOS, and Ontology including the status of the open RFC and RFP's.
There are Finalization Task Forces(FTF) chartered by the OMG Domain Tech Committee (DTC) to receive issues submitted against Video Analytics and Unified POS 1.15.
The Architecture Board approved the RFC for WS-POS v1.3.1 on Thursday, and the DTC voted and approved to create the FTF for WS-POS 1.3.1(chartered at Fridays' plenary).
Links to these can be found on the Retail Wiki start page
Wednesday afternoon the OMG board met and accepted the UnifiedPOS v1.15 and Video Analytics specifications, and are now formal OMG standards!
An acronym/abbreviation is used in the URL and reference of the specifications. We had an engaging discussion to make these consistent for standards the RDTF submits. The results were that UnifiedPOS will use hyphenated acronym's for new standards developed and the XML standards will have standalone acronyms developed on a case by case basis.
As an example, the unified POS fiscal API will be UPOS-FA, a belt api will possibly be UPOS-Belt, Electronic Value will be UPOS-EVRW.
For Video Analytics the current AXVA acronym will change to the originally proposed one of VideoAnalytics and the standard will be re-titled to remove ARTS XML from the beginning.
Roland presented the work that has been accomplished on the Fiscal API service RFP, attendees provided feedback and comments. This info is available on the documents in OneDrive
At 10am John Glaubitz lead a discussion on the retail ontology in the context of Documents, Invoices and Receipts; Goods, Services and Rights; Products, Items and Merchandise.
On Thursday we had scheduled road-map discussions and updates on the collaborative writing papers. Due to travel schedules Dennis Gerson started us off with his work on Blockchain in Retail. His excellent presentation extended in to several discussions and Q&A regarding aspects and uses of blockchain. One significant highlight was that if retailer/company processes are not well defined and structured, it will be difficult to implement blockchain and maintain it. The presentation is available on OneDrive(high quality) and in the document links below(lower quality for e-mail).
We believe this will have a significant impact on the standards the RDTF develops and will make them even more compelling to retailers and vendors alike.
The content Dennis presented still needs to be further refined down to a 2-page brief for easy solicitation.
We ran out of time to get an update from Richard on the Retail Go! paper, but he has already completed the editing and is publishing it on his Blog. We will work with him to co-publish on the OMG site and evangelize it on our LinkedIn and other venues.
As Dennis took up the majority of Thursday session, the remaining collaborative writing topics will be reviewed on July 11th RDTF call. The following lists the topic papers:
Robots in Retail (for Japanese market)
- Tadashi Furuhata
- OMG Robotics DTF may help?
EVRW in Retail – What is it? How to use this new UPOS device
- Kazuhiko Kondo
Create your own Retail Go! with ARTS
- Richard Halter
- Bart McGlothin
Block Chain for Retailers
- Katie Kean
- Dennis Gerson
- Leonid Rubakhin
- Richard Halter
Micro-services Architecture in Retail
- Daler Rahimov
- Need co-author to start
Interest areas discussed related to other OMG activities:
- Fresh Item Management collaboration with IBM/GS1/Wal-Mart
- Provenance and Pedigree collaboration for FIM and Healthcare
New Efforts:
- RFP for Retail Communications Service Devices (RCSD) - Nov. 2018
- RFC for Digital Receipts (Bart McGlothin to draft RFC) - Sept. 2018
- RFC for Location (need a chair)
- RFC for PosLog (need a chair)
MOTIONS
no new motions
DOCUMENTS
Document # Document Name
retail/2018-06-01 RDTF Closing Plenary Report
retail/2018-06-02 ARTS-OMG Overview and meeting minutes for Boston 2018
retail/2018-06-03 Retail Ontology session meeting minutes
retail/2018-06-04 Overview presentation for Blockchain in Retail
Retail Week Agenda:
Start
End
Topic
Presenter
WebEx/Info
Monday - June 18th
Tuesday - June 19th
13:00
18:00
LOCATION-BASED TECHNOLOGY & ANALYTICS IN RETAIL
Joshua Lieberman
Michael Drow
I-Ping Li
Andy Mattice
Steve Rowen
http://www.omg.org/events/ma-18/special-events/Retail.htm
Wednesday - June 20th
8:50
9:00
Introductions and Overview of ARTS
All / Bart McGlothin
https://cisco.webex.com
MeetingID: 207 570 015
Passcode: artsomg
9:00
9:30
RFC/RFP Update (VA, UPOSv1, UPOS Printer RFP)
Bart McGlothin
9:30
10:00
Fiscal API RFP
Roland Zalisevskij
10:00
10:30
Retail Ontology - Working meeting
John Glaubitz
10:00
10:45
Refreshments
10:45
12:00
Retail Ontology - Working meeting
John Glaubitz
12:00
13:30
Lunch
18:00
20:00
Attendee Reception
Thursday - June 21st
09:00
10:30
Migrations: PosLog, Digital Receipt, FIM, Location - RFC priorities - Discussion
Group
https://cisco.webex.com
MeetingID: 209 167 208
Passcode: artsomg
10:00
10:45
Refreshments
10:45
12:00
White Papers - Retail Go! with Standards, Blockchain, NRF
Group Updates
Friday - June 22nd
10:00
14:00
OMG Closing Plenaries for all Tracks
John Glaubitz,
Bart McGlothin
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