Business intelligence for retail from IBM

The goal

Choose a retail-specific data warehouse

The IBM Retail Business Intelligence Solution is designed specifically for retailers with a need for advanced analytics. This solution can help you analyze customers' purchasing patterns over time. Improve forecasting and inventory analysis. Support loss prevention efforts. Integrate multiple channels more effectively.

The advantage

Build one enterprise-wide view of data

The IBM Retail Business Intelligence Solution brings together data from across disparate departments and locations, to build one enterprise-wide view of information. We can help you build a repository for data that is uploaded from POS systems, warehouses, call centers and other areas of your business on a regular basis. Leverage a comprehensive reporting library that covers customer analytics, product evaluation, merchandising effectiveness, store operations and multi-channel execution. Benefit from industry-specific data models and a model management tool that enables standards definition and maintenance across your organization.

The benefits

Utilize data more effectively

You have the data, but are you using it? With an enterprise-wide view of information, your corporation as a whole can more effectively use data to focus on strategic goals, such as inventory reduction, vendor cost management, forecasting and evaluating opportunities for growth. A data warehouse provides faster access to information across your enterprise, so you can adapt more quickly to changing business conditions and buying trends. Information is integrated across your company, so customers receive consistent service across all channels—store, Web, call center, catalog. Decisions at all levels are based on the same accurate, up-to-date data, so you can improve collaboration throughout the organization. And with its focus on open standards, the IBM Retail Business Intelligence Solution gives you the reporting and application options that your users demand.