All,

Situation

• We are in retail industry with about 10 distributors and use Solomon as the standard ERP for all our systems

• Each distributor has 1 HQ and 5 - 10 branches, each branch has their own server (Windows 2000/XP/2003 + Solomon + another built-in POS system)

• Everyday, branches has to extract data and send (via email/Skype) to HQ for data consolidation purpose

• When we first deployed our ERP, the infrastructure (e.g. Internet connection) wasn't reliable enough. That's why we went with the de-centralized model (each branch got their own server)

• Now, the infrastructure is mature already. And we need to consolidate data more quickly (not from branches --> HQ --> our company but something like HQ --> our company only)

Goal

• We just have Solomon servers in distributor HQ. All the transactions in branches (retrieved from POS) will by synchronized with HQ server directly)

• There is a backup plan just in case the Internet goes down, or HQ server goes down

Question

• With the above question, could you guys suggests some model for me ? Should we use Terminal services, any other solutions ?

• Any watchout/suggestions ? Any good article to read 'bout this ?

Thanks a lot