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The Analyst Viewpoint

Retail Solutions is offering exactly what the market needs: the option of a service in place of a costly enterprise system.

- Sara Shah, ABI Research

In an environment where data is growing exponentially, changing constantly and often devoid of a clear structure, some start to compare reading their reporting to “drinking from a fire hose”. To transform data into clearly structured information, and to make that information actionable, Retail Solutions offers a complete set of tools to retailers and consumer product goods (CPG) companies.

• Customized Reporting and Advanced Analytics Library – Retail Solutions offers an out-of-the-box, customizable collection of views and reports, designed by role and by end goal, that allow for deeper analysis of point-of-sale (POS) and other retail data
• Alerting – Retail Solutions alerting capability sends the right message to the right person at the right time, maximizing the probability that any possible issue is fixed

Retail Solutions Advanced Reporting helps you to realize the potential of demand-driven data.

• Share customized information, not undifferentiated data – distribute the right information at the right level of detail to the right person within your entire organization, and across your trading partners
• Send proactive recommendations – ensure you can intervene before problems arise by sending notifications to the person who can check and eventually correct any incoming issue
• Benefit from the accumulated experience from Retail Solutions – immediately start using one of many standard reporting templates in use at leading companies in the retail and consumer goods industries, or customize these reports to match your specific needs

• Comprehensive report library
  • By role, for retailers (store and district managers, buyers…), manufacturers (account executives, promotion analysts, replenishment analysts, EPC project owners…) and brokers (merchandisers)
  • By business objective
  • Complemented by a proven set of best practices on how to use these reports with your trading partners to drive action and issue resolution
• User-friendly business intelligence
  • Dynamic drag-and-drill functionality to analyze large data sets
  • Built-in dashboards and exception reporting highlight areas of opportunity
  • Consolidated view of business results across multiple retailers
• Tailored against your organization’s structure, roles and processes
  • Complemented by a complete set of characteristics, by alert (what, when, where, who?)
  • Accessible either via a web-based system, via e-mail or integrated with your field mobile device system