RFI Logical Overview Model



Oracle Retail Financial Integration (RFI)


The Oracle Retail Financial Integration (RFI) is the direct integration solution between Oracle Retail Merchandising Suite and enterprise financial systems.  Because the concept of retail financial integration continues to be strategic to Oracle Retail, this new integration is designed to better match other Oracle Retail provided integration patterns and so has the benefit of being easier to implement and support by our customers.  The Oracle Retail Financial Integration is aligned with our overall integration strategy.

RFI 14.x and 15.x  versions of the Oracle Retail Financial Integration targets integration between Oracle Retail Merchandising Systems and Oracle E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft Financials.










Integration Styles


Oracle Retail Integration Bus (RIB)

The Oracle Retail Integration Bus (RIB) is a fully distributed integration infrastructure that implements messaging using Asynchronous JMS Pub/Sub Fire-and-Forget.

Oracle Retail Service Backbone (RSB)

Oracle Retail Service Backbone (RSB) is the productization of a set of Web Services, ESBs and Security tools that standardize the deployment and run time of Web Service flows within Oracle Retail Suite of applications.


Bulk Data  Integration
(File-based, ETL-based)

Oracle Retail, like most vendors, have relied on file extraction of large amounts of data (bulk), moving that data between it's applications using file-based methods or ETL-tool based methods, and then consuming the data for processing.