International Business Machines Corporation
Embedded retail system

Abstract:

A system and associated method. The system includes a server computer and an integration and dis-integration engine coupled to the server computer. The server computer provides a structure in which the components are integrated via dynamic application programming interface (API) integration. Multiple components are sequenced in a predefined sequential order. A function to be performed is respectively associated with each component. The server computer and the integration and dis-integration engine provide a technology environment that dynamically integrates technology enabled business processes that dynamically, electronically and automatically enter and leave the components integrated in the structure provided by the server computer. The technology enabled business processes are dynamically integrated during implementation of a retail sale of a product to a customer in a de-centralized manner to perform, in the predefined sequential order of the components, all of the functions respectively associated with the components.