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FREEDOM Solution Center

FREEDOM-Solution Center by MATRA Systems is the link between a retailer's POS system and enterprise-class data consumers, such as data warehouse and loss prevention systems. Without this vital connection, retailers risk making critical decisions based on unreliable and/or aged data.

The beauty of FREEDOM-Solution Center is that it collects transaction data from all of your stores in near-real time - regardless of the POS system - and delivers it securely to headquarters. Furthermore, FREEDOM-Solution Center standardizes the data before delivering it to central processing applications. So you can make decisions, confident that the data is immediate and unambiguous.

Take Your Data to the Next Level with FREEDOM-Solution Points:

  • Data Audit and Quarantine of POS Data-Separates flawed data from the inbound stream for repair by a rules-based quarantine editor.
  • Refund Management-Helps prevent fraudulent refunds by verifying the original purchase, with or without a receipt.
  • Stored Value Card Hosting-Enables in-house gift card or refund cards.
  • Electronic Journal-Views, filters, and searches complete transaction history.
  • Reporting-A comprehensive reporting suite built on the database
  • And more:

 

Features Benefits
Data delivery in near real-time Timely information enables immediate action
Presents data in a standard data model
  • Quickly and easily query data
  • Cheaply enable third-party interfaces
Handles data from disparate POS systems, integrating into a standard data model
  • Provides a common management view of all operations in the enterprise
  • Abstracts the host systems from complexities and changes in the POS system
Verifies the validity of the data based on configurable rules
  • Automatically ensures only good data is published to host systems
  • Quarantine editor allows rapid fix of exception data to prevent delays in data availability
Industry standard data feeds/ models: ARTS data model, IXRetail streams, MQ MSMQ or JMS queues.
  • Easily integrated to all data consumers
  • Provides a common single version of the truth
  • Scalable application server architecture
  • Highly available clustered server support
  • Cost savings by only purchasing the hardware that’s necessary
  • Expands as the enterprise grows
  • Ensures that management data is always available
    Interfaces to standard exception monitoring tools: MOM, HAWK, and so forth
    Fits within existing exception monitoring environment

 

Since 1991, MATRA Systems has provided POS solutions and services for major retailers worldwide. Just some of its many software solutions are POS, including food-service POS for 4690 customers, enterprise data collection and management, check electronification, gift card, and refund management. With these products and retail open standard interfaces, MATRA has developed unrivaled expertise in transforming legacy IBM environments. MATRA also offers complete IBM 4690 modification and support services. The FREEDOM product family is designed specifically for the modern retail environment and all its complexities. FREEDOM harvests transaction details from stores in near real-time to provide a complete picture of store activity. FREEDOM-Solution Center delivers aggregated and normalized data at a central location, for consumption by enterprise applications (Solution Points) provided by MATRA or third party suppliers.