Introduction to Centara

Welcome to Centara

Introduction

Centara retail system consists of point-of-sale on-premise Windows based applications that synchronizes data with a centralized web server. The server does not play a role in completing individual transactions, rather its role is to support the POS in various ways for data and maintenance. The server is also a central point for all the POS systems in the organization and can therefore be used in some cases to centralize data.

The core of the Centara system dates back to the year 2000 and in those days central data was maintained using many small server applications. Since then the web server has been integrating more and more of those legacy applications although a few still remain.

One of the most important elements in Centara design is to minimize the recovery of a broken client application down to a few minutes. This can be achieved by storing the individual client setup centrally and automatically synchronizing necessary data.

The data structure of Centara has been designed based on the ARTS retail technology standard to maximize the compatibility with external ERP systems.

System overview

Centara retail system consists of point-of-sale on-premise Windows based applications that synchronizes data with a centralized web server. The server does not play a role in completing individual transactions, rather its role is to support the POS in various ways for data and maintenance. The server is also a central point for all the POS systems in the organization and can there for be used in some cases to centralize data.