The ProfitBase Retail Business Intelligence (BI) solution delivers ready-to-use business and point-of-sale (POS) analytics using ProfitBase 2009-a scalable, rapidly configured data warehouse and online analytical processing (OLAP) cube accelerator for SQL Server. The solution enables retailers to easily connect information, processes, technology, and people, providing critical insight that improves the ability of associates to make decisions quickly, drive better business performance, and increase customer satisfaction.
ProfitBase Retail BI includes ready-to-use OLAP Measure Group templates that encapsulate retail metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) based on the Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS) data standard. Data source connector templates that capture data extraction criteria from POS and other business systems are also included.
The Retail BI Measure Group templates capture and extend the ARTS standards to provide retailers with daily and even hourly analytics on article sales, customer buying habits, cash register transactions, store and worker efficiency, promotions, and basket analysis. In addition to POS, Measure Group templates are available for finance, sales, inventory, and purchasing. Ready-to-use data source connector templates are also available for Microsoft Dynamics GP, NAV, SOL, AX, and many others, including Retalix StorePoint, Fujitsu Global Store, Wincor Nixdorf TP.net, LS Retail for Dynamics AX, and NAV. Templates are easily deployed and quickly adapted to each retailer's unique requirements, and new Measure Groups and data source connectors are easily created and deployed using ProfitBase 2009 Management Studio, an easy-to-use, wizard-driven, graphical configuration environment.
ProfitBase Retail BI leverages the power of Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 to deliver performance information to scorecard, dashboard, and reporting systems like Microsoft PerformancePoint Server 2007, providing decision makers with one consolidated view of information and enabling better and faster decisions.
