Acme Brick, owned by Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway, is one of the largest manufacturers of brick in the southwest. Acme Brick implemented Oracle Backend as their core order management and financial system about 2 years ago. Acme runs 65 retail outlets where contractors and the general public purchase brick, tile and masonry tools for construction and home improvement. Acme tried using Oracle Backend for point of sale (POS) transactions, but many of their sales people reverted to handwriting sales tickets to speed up the process with the customer. This led to incorrect price and tax calculations and out of balance cash drawer situations. After a design session with CrossView, Acme chose WebSphere Commerce as the software platform to build a customer point of sale system that integrated tightly with Oracle Backend. CrossView built the point of sale system working closely with Acme's Oracle Backend developers that allowed for real-time lookup of pricing, inventory and customer credit information from Oracle Backend. Orders were created via real time calls to Oracle Backend which ensured the customer always received the correct price in Oracle Backend.