StoreHub has the following key components:

• Retail Composite applications that are based on services that invoke legacy applications and drive hitherto unexplored productivity gains and efficiency improvements.
• Process Integration Templates that provide prefabricated integration from store applications to corporate systems
• Application Connectors for specific industry leading package applications
• The Retail Services layer that exposes services from legacy applications and provides the metadata model for information exchange, the StoreHub is standards based and will work with any standards compliant middleware suite. It has been ported on to Oracle Fusion Middleware suite and JBoss.

StoreHub components include:

• Composite Applications

• Store Portal
• Buyer Dashboard

• Integration Process Templates (Sample List)

• Customer Transaction Automation / Integrated Order Management.
• Integrated Multi-channel Shopping including Web Order, Store Pickup; Web Order, Store Returns, Integrating Promotions Processes.
• Managing Stockouts.
• Seamless Employee Management

• Pre-Built Connectors for retail store and enterprise systems (Sample List)

• Point of Sale / Store Inventory Management / Store Back Office: Oracle Retail, Datavantage, 360Commerce, Triversity.
• Workforce Management / Task Management: Kronos, Workbrain, Reflexis, StorePerform.
• CRM: Blue Martini Clienteling, Marketworks, Clarify.
• Portals: Oracle, BEA Plumtree.
• Merchandising: JDA, Oracle Retail.
• Sales Audit: Auditworks, ReSA.
• Credit Switch: ISD, ACI, ADS.
• Financials: Oracle, SAP.
• HR: Peoplesoft.

• The Retail Services Metadata Layer

• SkillNet uses a common representation of entities to ensure data is translated correctly between different systems. This common framework, called the Meta Data model is built using the ARTS and IX-Retail standards. Since the business semantics are standards based, future composite applications can be easily built.