Business Intelligence - Detail That Lets You See the Big Picture
Raymark’s Analytics and Business Intelligence breaks down departmental information
silos by gathering all data in a centralized environment with the accuracy and precision
required in today’s retail market. It delivers the functionality required to highlight
your particular set of key performance indicators on a personalized dashboard. This
allows senior executives to instantly view the current status of the entire operation,
providing a top-line reading on the health of the business.
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> Fast, Stable Performance
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> Reduced IT Staff Required to Create Ad Hoc Reports and Data Summaries
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> Powerful, Multi-dimensional Database
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> Fast, Efficient Processing of Queries
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> Easy-to-Use GUIs for Building and Maintaining OLAP Cubes
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> Integrated Metadata
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Advanced Forecasting
The solution surpasses common business intelligence tools that solely analyze historical
data. Based on trend analysis, this revolutionary business intelligence module can
forecast expected results using a variety of key performance indicators (KPI’s).
With its single version of the truth and quick access to key information, reports,
and turnover analyses, retailers are empowered to make more accurate business decisions
and engage more profitable customers and suppliers.
Real-Time, Intelligent Reporting
This business intelligence module was created to perform instant retail data analysis.
The application converts transactional data into a special “online analytic processing
cube” that performs complex calculations to report on virtually limitless subsets
of data. Moreover, it enables comparison scenarios so retailers can evaluate variances
and emerging trends in the business. The information extraction is instantaneous,
so reports are delivered at the push of a button.The solution delivers the functionality
to highlight retailers’ particular key performance indicators (KPI’s) on a personalized
dashboard. It allows senior executives to instantly view the current status of their
entire operation, and to get a top-line reading on the health of the business. The
module gives the user the power to drill down on information in any number of variables
and provides “what-if” scenarios for fully customized reports. It offers the ability
to compare sales of an item for a specified period by vendor/color/size/store/region/and
employee – versus another similar item (or group of items) by a different vendor
for the identical criteria. Furthermore, the retailer can then run a report that
compares all of this information to the same criteria for the previous year, or
the user can shuffle the information in a different priority sequence so that it
cascades down by store groups.
Exception Triggering
The application was created for retail managers, not technical people, making data
easy to manipulate into information. With unrestricted sequencing parameters, the
retailer is free to analyze any possible subsets from captured information. The
solution provides functionality to proactively establish special “exception triggers”,
informing the user when key activities or events are occurring.
Trend and Performance Analysis
Raymark’s Analysis and Business Intelligence empowers retailers with the tools to
make more timely decisions that can benefit the company’s bottom line. It is based
on data cubes offering up to 64 dimensions. The data contained within a cube has
already been summarized to show figures such as unit sales, store sales, regional
sales, net sale profits and average time for order fulfillment. With this data,
an analyst can efficiently evaluate any or all of those figures for any or all products,
customers, sales clerks and more, making Raymark’s data cubes essential in establishing
trends and analyzing performance.