Validates transaction log entries. Continues to operate through the change of reporting periods. The RDBF provides retailers with far greater efficiency and flexibility in designing and creating new reports. Since data is residing in a true relational database, there are no limitations to the types of queries that can be issued, unlike some competitive offerings. And since the data resides in a fully functional RDB, there is no additional processing that needs to occur before a query can be processed.
Some competitive products can add many minutes of processing time to even relatively simple queries.
The result is a highly reliable and accurate account of the store's operation that could include everything from hourly department totals to the details of the product mix of each customer. The RDBF comes equipped with a set of predefined reports easily executed with a few simple commands. These reports provide commonly needed marketing and operational information as well as examples by which retailers can custom-design their unique reports. The default database design contains the tables necessary to store all data captured during the sales transactions of the GSA and supermarket applications. This design can be extended or modified to include requirements for other POS applications.