Retail Data Warehouse Application

As a retail professional, complexity is the reality of your business life. You work in a high-pressure environment that requires you to proactively take action and make decisions. But what tools do you need to act on the many factors that influence your business? How do you take action on emerging product sales and exploit geographical patterns? How do you choose the right product and stock it in the right store at the right time?

If you are like many retail professionals, numbers are the tools you use to make these decisions. The problem however is that the complexity of the retail industry demands you to act with information, and you are data rich but information poor. You spend much of your time collecting and reconciling numbers from different systems and much less of your time using information to make the proactive decisions that your job requires.

QuantiSense's retail data warehousing application, QS|Retail, has been specifically designed to give retailers the detailed information they need to make decisions quickly. Featuring an intuitive interface, QS|Retail utilizes MicroStrategy's state-of-the-art business intelligence platform combined with pre-built reporting to provide retailers with industry standard retail analyses out-of-the-box. QS|Retail offers retailers:

• Good Numbers From Many Sources
  QS|Retail integrates data from source systems and, because of its extensive daily data integrity routines, the application provides retailers with information that they can trust.
  

• Fast Access To Details
  Summary analysis reports can indicate the health or illness of a retail business, however retailers need to be empowered with details in order to make intelligent choices and take action on specific products. QS|Retail, powered by MicroStrategy's ROLAP architecture, gives retailers the ability to define reporting metrics by product, geography, time, or any other retail dimension and any report can be queried for drill down analysis on-demand.
  

• Easy To Use Interface
  QS|Retail is accessible by information users through a flexible, easy to use web interface that is powered by MicroStrategy. With point-and-click and drag-and-drop reporting features, QS|Retail gives users the luxury of accessing any level of detail whenever they want.

In addition, QS|Retail offers exceptional user flexibility as users can access personalized dashboards of information, create their own reports, and set and define alerts and exception criteria. In this way, the application helps retail professionals capitalize on productivity gains as they are able to spend less time looking for numbers and more time acting on information. These productivity gains are beneficial in the functional management of such areas as Merchandising, Inventory Management, Analytical CRM, Financial Management, and Store Operations.

QS|Retail equips retail professionals with a technology solution that provides fast access to detailed information and an understanding of the story behind the numbers. The result is intelligent and informed decision-making. Please visit us at www.quantisense.com to learn more about how QuantiSense's QS|Retail product can benefit your retail organization.