During the 2021 holiday season, several large retailers across America had a rude awakening when their businesses lost connectivity — making headlines, frustrating customers, and putting their transaction tracking at risk. Under this constant threat of outages, maintaining a reliable tax technology is critical for retailers, causing many to leave cloud software in favor of new technologies and advances in edge computing.

This playbook explores these new edge computing solutions for point of sale (POS) tax management and examines how retailers are using them to reduce network latency, build increased system security, and ensure resiliency. Discover the benefits of edge computing in-depth, such as:

• Protecting the checkout experience
• Compatibility with existing edge container infrastructure
• Visibility and maintenance of many localized calculation endpoints
• Data security
• Reliability in the face of disruption

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