Retail

Partner Solutions

Cognos Partners provide products, services, and technology expertise to help our retail customers improve and direct corporate performance. The broad range of partnerships allows Cognos, an IBM company, to meet the distinctive needs of our customers in purchasing, deploying, and servicing their business intelligence and performance management solutions.

Partner solutions for retail include:

• Claraview Retail Data Warehouse (CRDW): Learn how the CRDW from Claraview seamlessly integrates with the IBM Cognos Store Operations Planning Performance Blueprint to allow retailers to measure business results for stores, merchandise, customers, and supply chain operations against goals in near real-time.

• Retail Pathways ™ by JCB Partners: Discover how the JCB retail enterprise data warehouse provides reporting and dashboards for key operational indicators, allowing retailers to identify areas that are not performing to plan—across product lines, geography, seasonality, store attributes, and management.
  
  

• PCMS Datafit's VISION InSight: Read about how PCMS Datafit's VISION InSight analytics module allows global retail and hospitality organizations to gain insight into all aspects of their business. With extracts of data at near real time, retailers can analyze inventory, sales volumes, cost analysis, product, and geographic performance as well as labor costing against sales. The solution also provides budgeting and planning of store operations or merchandising.
  
  

Additional Resources:

Retail Performance Management: Increase Visibility and Drive Profitable Growth

White Paper

Learn about the benefits of using Cognos performance management to gain deep business insight, improve decision-making, and succeed in the highly competitive retail marketplace.

Retail Perspectives: Maximize the Return on Customer

Article

Three perspectives on the retail industry. Learn how customer data drives more successful campaigns, why retailers need tighter integration with their supply chains, and how the IBM Cognos Financial Merchandise Planning Performance Blueprint can improve inventory planning.

Selecting the Right Retail Planning Solution

White Paper

This software selection guide provides some key factors to consider when evaluating enterprise planning solutions, and it makes the business case for Cognos as the best-in-class performance management system provider.

IBM Cognos Retail Store Development Planning Performance Blueprint

Online Demo

Learn how Cognos retail performance management solutions can help chains align corporate objectives with operating plans to operate more profitably and efficiently.

Retail Performance Management Podcast with JCB Partners

Podcast

An interview with Brad Smith of JCB partners. Includes a survey of current trends in the retail industry and how JCB and Cognos partner to provide a retail performance management solution to improve performance in merchandising, pricing, and other key areas and walks through a typical retail performance management engagement.

IBM Cognos Financial Merchandise Planning Blueprint: Align Merchandise Plans with Corporate Strategies, Customer Demands

Issue Paper

Learn how retail chains can meet sales objectives and profitability goals through a merchandise planning process that is synchronized with both finance and operations.

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