The
Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS) is an internationally reaching
standards organization dedicated to reducing the costs of
technology through
standards. Since 1993, ARTS has been delivering application standards exclusively to the retail industry. ARTS has four standards: The Standard Relational Data Model,
UnifiedPOS, ARTS XML and the Standard
RFPs. It is a division of the
National Retail Federation. These standards enable the rapid implementation of technology within the retail industry by developing standards to ease integration of software applications and hardware devices. ARTS offers testing services to verify that applications accurately incorporate these standards.