The Hybrid option gives customers the ability to utilize both the benefits of cloud hosting and the resilience of an offline POS. Offline device architecture is achieved using a Hybrid Component Server (HCS).
The Hybrid Component Server replicates data from the cloud-based head office to the companies-based POS master database, which then ensures that everything the POS needs, data and application, is replicated to the offline POSs.
It is up to each retailer where he or she wants to install the HCS; it can be in Azure or on an in-house server.
Using HCS with LS Central makes it possible for companies to benefit from what the cloud has to offer, that is always be up-to-date with the newest releases, or to have the benefits of a POS that is running offline while at the same time the system ensures that all POSs are running the latest version.
The Hybrid option ensures that companies are always using the latest version of the LS Central software, both for head office and the POSs, with no need for manual updates anymore.
This solution has been designed so that both data and application flow smoothly between the databases, from the Head Office database in the cloud to POS Master, from POS Master to the POSs, and vice versa.