AKite Why is it different?

Other solutions for Retail on the market, even if provided by the Internet, remain in the dilemma betweentraditional and Departmental Centralized architectures , each with opposite problems. The vulnerability of centralized architecture is limited by redundant lines and / or back up systems. The distance of the architecture from the Departmental "Connected Retail" is filled with frequent synchronizations between the different databases. In both cases, also increases cost and complexity.

aKite part instead of a vision post-internet-based Web services , deliverable and can be used from anywhere and with any technology, with a view to cooperation both inside and outside the company. The inevitable problems of Internet connections are solved by splitting the services between Internal and Global . Those Interior to provide each station the normal sales transactions without limits on the number of loyal customers, products, prices, promotions and duration of disconnection. Global Services, delivered by an advanced platform of Cloud Computing , are those that concern the management and sharing of data between people, shops and even different companies.

The term Cloud is so fashion that few give up or even allusion to use, even when they offer technologies of the last century as Hosting and ASP. Confusion is physiological in paradigm shifts as we were at the terminus of tradition and at the departure station of a completely new computer, but there are some simple definitions, such as the NIST , which does not leave room for much ambiguity.

A couple of important indicators of the true Cloud Computing are:

•  Multi-tenancy : the application software on Cloud (in aKite the Retail Web Services ) provides services to several companies, effectively sharing the same hardware and software resources. 
•  PaaS ( Platform as a Service ): The centralized software leverages the scalability , reliability and SLA that only a modern PaaS can provide.

Clearly it is easier to migrate an application in a traditional IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), the level of initial and Cloud Computing closer to normal datacenter, rather than redesign it according to the new paradigm of Multi-tenancy and PaaS. Additional investments in the development of aKite , however, allow greater openness to integration, lower cost of delivery and above all a SLA (Service Level Agreement) high and guaranteed.