Preface

The Oracle Retail Financial Integration represents the second release of 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 integration is designed to better match other Oracle Retail provided integration patterns and so has the benefit of being easier to implement and support. The Oracle Retail Financial Integration is aligned with our overall integration strategy.This version of the Oracle Retail Financial Integration adds integration between Oracle Retail Merchandising System and Oracle Financials Cloud (CFIN). Integration best practices have been applied to this integration so that it can be easily implemented and supported by our retail customers.The Oracle Retail Financial Integration is supported by Oracle for customers who have purchased the Oracle Retail Integration Bus product. As with most packaged integration, the base package provides the most common integration content to satisfy end-to-end scenarios, but customers will tend to make some integration and mapping changes to meet their specific needs. This release includes technical and design documentation to assist customer specific deployments.

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Improved Process for Oracle Retail Documentation Corrections

To more quickly address critical corrections to Oracle Retail documentation content, Oracle Retail documentation may be republished whenever a critical correction is needed. For critical corrections, the republication of an Oracle Retail document may at times not be attached to a numbered software release; instead, the Oracle Retail document will simply be replaced on the Oracle Technology Network Web site, or, in the case of Data Models, to the applicable My Oracle Support Documentation container where they reside.

Oracle Retail product documentation is available on the following web site:

https://docs.oracle.com/en/industries/retail/index.html

An updated version of the applicable Oracle Retail document is indicated by Oracle part number, as well as print date (month and year). An updated version uses the same part number, with a higher-numbered suffix. For example, part number E123456-02 is an updated version of a document with part number E123456-01.

If a more recent version of a document is available, that version supersedes all previous versions.

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Oracle Retail product documentation is available on the following web site:

https://docs.oracle.com/en/industries/retail/index.html

(Data Model documents can be obtained through My Oracle Support.)

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