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Retail business intelligence (BI)

Solutions for small and medium retail business

Business intelligence (BI) solutions and applications can give you all the tools you need for data collection, data warehousing, data mining, data analysis and data reporting. This information can help you make more effective strategy and business decisions. As a retailer, BI solutions can help you base your future buying on fact—by division, store, category, SKU, channel and customer.

Benefits

Retail business solutions from IBM and IBM Business Partners can help you:

  • Model seasonal data and pricing strategies.
  • Analyze historical sales data to confirm buying patterns, pricing and costs.
  • Analyze purchasing trends and patterns to more successfully target promotions and new product introductions.
  • Streamline ordering, deliver goods to the store more quickly, put the right products in the right stores at the right time, and speed checkout times for improved customer satisfaction. 
  • Manage inventory levels, formulate accurate allocation models, and evaluate vendor performance.

Business intelligence (BI) Solutions

  • IBM and Alphalogix (Retail)

    Delivers robust and dynamic business process automation solutions for retail and wholsale distribution improving operational communication, efficiency while minimizing costs such as paper-base forms, and manual workflow.

  • IBM and Infor (Retail)

    For the retail industry, Infor offers a broad range of solutions, including SCM, CRM, human capital management, ERP and financial management, as well as the System i Center of Excellence community.

  • IBM and Information Builders

    Provides a comprehensive business intelligence solution that delivers information to all levels of an organization

  • IBM and LANSA

    Helps customers enhance their business performance through the use of leading-edge technologies, services and solutions.

  • IBM and Manhattan Associates

    Enables operational excellence through real-time collaboration, execution and optimization.

  • IBM and Retalix

    Provides comprehensive supply chain execution solutions and services to food and consumer goods wholesale and retail distributors.

  • IBM Cognos solutions for retail

    Helps to manage operational costs, improve store performance and drive profitable growth.

We're here to help

We'll work with you to understand your needs, determine the best options and find the IBM representative and/or IBM Business Partner that is right for you. Contact the Express Advantage Concierge, a team of specialists dedicated to mid-sized business at 1-877-IBM-ACCESS
(426-2223).