Retail Data Warehouse and Role-Based Analytics
Business Issues many Retail organizations are facing
- Retailers’ legacy ERP systems are no longer meeting their business decision-making needs
- Company information is spread across multiple systems and disparate data sources
- Business users are signing on to multiple systems, building their own spreadsheets, pulling data from multiple applications – all in an effort to understand what is going on in the business – and spending most of their time in data-gathering mode, rather than in decision-making and results-oriented activities
- Business users are not able to access all the data that is available in their company’s data stores in a way that it can be used to improve results
- Enterprise Retail Data Warehouse solutions are too expensive and take too long to install
Benefits of the nexvisionix INFO*INSIGHT Retail Data Warehouse Business Solution now available
- Retail Specific Model – The pre-modeled retail - specific data warehouse with dashboards and scorecards enables faster roll-out of the BI application.
Faster Integration – The data model is designed considering industry best practices and ARTS standards, resulting in quick integration with existing retail applications and the ability to aggregate data from multiple, disparate sources into one data warehouse for data mining, analysis and decision-making.- Data Marts – Pre-configured data marts are included to meet the analytical requirements of the key roles in merchandising, planning, operations, marketing, finance, etc.
- Granular Data – The data model supports storing data at the lowest level of granularity - transaction level – which enables data mining capabilities for product attribute and market basket analysis.
- Role-Based Analytics – Each business user is presented with the information appropriate to their responsibilities and decision-making role within the organization, with issues highlighted for immediate action – allowing them to spend their time improving results – not searching for the information they need to guide their actions and make their decisions.
- Cost-Effective Platform – Utilizing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 running on commodity hardware from HP, Dell and EMC configured with the DATAllegro Performance Reference Hardware Architecture, and the nexvisionix INFO*INSIGHT Retail Data Warehouse architecture, nexvisionix INFO*INSIGHT delivers a high-performance data warehouse of up to 10 TB on an extremely cost-effective platform today, and the Madison Project will extend that capability to 100s of terabytes in the future.
- Extend the Life of Existing ERPs – Implementing an enterprise retail data warehouse will extend the life of the retailer’s existing ERP, allowing the retailer to let the ERP system focus on what it does best – transaction processing - while utilizing the retail data warehouse to gain insights into the business.
