All Retalon solutions have the following:

Technical:

• Built-on-the-Web platform-independent architecture provides powerful functionality and applications with complete freedom to adapt, modify, and upgrade.
  
• Virtually unlimited scalability meets your current needs, and easily expands as your requirements grow.
  
• A strong XML engine for interfacing with existing enterprise systems supports a variety of operating systems, including UNIX and Windows, protecting your investments in technology.
  
• Support of any JDBC-compliant databases, including Oracle and Microsoft SQL, allowing easy integration into existing IT structures.
  
• Open platform allows for integration with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems on a custom basis.

Retalon Software ensures secure access to the customers' sales, inventory, forecast and other data over the Internet.

• HTTPS communication protocol is used to ensure the Internet-age security and high-strength encryption for sensitive data.
  
• Password-based authentication is required to access the Retalon software.
  
• Retalon users can access only functionality they are entitled to use. Retalon supports several access levels and allows limiting user access to the appropriate information, e.g. users from a specific vendor are only allowed to see information related to that vendor.

Retalon software is modular and can be deployed in a variety of architectural options. The software consists of:

• The main database that stores all the necessary information including sales, and inventory.
  
• The authentication and authorization database that contains information on the authorized users and their access rights
  
• Retalon server engine written in Java, which relies on a web server to deliver the information through HTTPS or HTTP protocols. Retalon server engine comes bundled with the free Tomcat web server.
  
• Retalon client in a native Windows application, that communicates to the server by passing XML documents over HTTPS or HTTP.

Administrative:

• Secure remote system maintenance and administration
  
• Users access level administration
  
• Secure remote user access to the system or selected modules
  
• Very flexible and highly configurable Import and Export functionalities
  
• Batch tasks scheduler
  
• Server and Client configuration screens

Business:

• User-defined exceptions, warnings, and alerts with a large number of pre-configured templates
  
• Very flexible and highly configurable Interactive Reports with export to Excel functionality
  
• Drill down to details functionality for every business entity
  
• Administration of business rules, corporate policies, and regulations. All rules are established for situations - not for products. It means that the rules don't need to be re-established again after some time. (For example: "A rule for new products").
  
• Unlimited number of merchandise hierarchy levels
  
• Unlimited number of geo-demographic hierarchy levels
  
• Unlimited number of business channel hierarchy levels
  
• Unlimited number of vendor hierarchy levels
  
• Unlimited number of user subordinate hierarchy levels
  
• Unlimited number of Product attributes - both quantitative and qualitative.
  
• Unlimited number of Store attributes