Ansible Finally up and running

Ansibel:. A device that enables users to communicate instantaneously across great distances.

When we planned to have the store databases feed everything to central Operations Center, it was decided that we would move away from the traditional methods.

In the retail sector most applications work with a "day end" package at the stores. This package is produced by a process that is triggered by the the day end reports. In push models this typically zipped archive is sent to head office by FTP or some similar transport layer. In the Pull environment the transfer process is initiated from the central head office as the store is sequentially polled for the zip file.

The archive is extracted at head office and text files / data files imported into a head office database, that represents the reconstruction of the aggregation of stores.

Our model is very different, yet in broad strokes can still be described in the Push / Pull categories.