Best Buy

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Best Buy

• Mr. Suradech W. 461-9053
• Ms. Surangkana K. 461-9054

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Company background

• North America's leading specialty retailer of
  consumer electronics, personal computers,
  entertainment software and appliances
• Making life fun and easy

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Key success factors

• Delivering what the customer wants.
• A price promise guarantee.
• Up-to-date information.

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Previous system

• Nightly basis for transmission information.
• The information was sent to the corporate office
  which in turn send the new price to local stores.

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Problems

• Information transmission was exceeded the batch
  window during peak times.
• Unavailability of accurate information.
• Unable to change pricing information quickly in
  response to competitor prices.
• Change price at the point of sale manually.

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MQ Series MQSI Functions

• MQ Series
• Exchange information across different platforms.
• Assure reliable delivery of messages.
• Ensure delivered information free from error.
• Safe from unauthorized access.
• MQSI
• Enable to exchange information across different
  platform.
• Distribute information automatically to the
  application or database.
• Implement real time
• Transform and reformat the data to suit the
  recipients.

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Best Buys System Integration
Local Stores
Messages
Queue 1
Queues 2
MQ Series MQSI
Queues 1
Queues 2
Applications
Mainframe
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Benefits for Best Buy

• Increase speed to the market
• Increase stability and automation of processes
• Guaranteed delivery ability to reuse business
  logic
• Delivery of timely business data remote stores
  and website
• Ability to roll out new applications quickly

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References

• http//www.ibm.com/software/ts/mqseries
• http//www.imb.com/software/ts/cics
• http//www.bestbuy.com