GADD Analytics Overview

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1 GADD Analytics Overview Version 5.4 A GADD White Paper Published May,

2 Table of content 1. Introduction What is GADD Analytics? What are the benefits with GADD Analytics? What are the costs? What is included in GADD Analytics? GADD Analytics plug-ins Required hardware and software Web client requirements Windows client requirements Server requirements GADD Analytics for Sales Monitoring GADD Analytics for QA Damage & Returns GADD Analytics for Add-on Sales Contact Us... 6 GADD Analytics Overview page 2

3 1. Introduction In this white paper we provide an overview of GADD Analytics. The target audience for this paper is anyone who is exploring Business Intelligence (BI) solutions. This paper is an introductory answer to the question: Why should I choose GADD Analytics and what is it about? 2. What is GADD Analytics? GADD Analytics is a suite of BI Appliances for retail operations with focus on cost efficient controlling and monitoring of business performance. GADD Analytics transforms an existing approach of execute a query and get a report into a complete solution that enables automatic data retrieval, unlimited data storage, automatic web publishing, ad-hoc queries, customised visualisations, off-line analysis, full Excel integration and super-quick response times. GADD Analytics: Is ready-to-use plug-ins, or standalone solutions, for specific areas e.g. sales, damaged and returned articles, basket analysis and includes the appliances Sales Monitoring, Quality Analysis for Returns & Damages and Add-on Sales. Contains a series of BI Appliances that are easy to install, administrate and use. Can be configured and customised for any specific area with minimum lead-time. Customisations to your specific requirements, your business knowledge and way of analysing data can be implemented in the solution. This makes collection of data and generation of information for analysis automatic (saves time) and sharable (instant access to relevant and personalised information for different user groups), which enables decision making on different levels based on solid and reliable information What are the benefits with GADD Analytics? GADD Analytics makes retrieval, publishing and analysis of data significantly easier for the user through customised visualisations and calculations. GADD Analytics: Provides better information for decision making by collating and analysing data from multiple sources. Gives users guidance to review figures top down and bottom up, e.g. monitoring of sales deviations and identifications of reasons for deviations. Enables off-line analysis which has several benefits, e.g. significantly improves response time, allows ad-hoc analysis and off-loads the data source that the data is retrieved from. Saves data automatically and creates possibilities of saving data indefinitely. Can be configured with data storages in the most cost efficient way. Can consolidate data from any data source, e.g. systems, data warehouses and files of various formats (XML, Excel etc.). Can combine statistics with business control information, e.g. KPIs. Allows automatic data transfer and report generation of tailored data extracts from any desired time period. Provides an easy to use interface for ad hoc queries and sophisticated analysis. GADD Analytics Overview page 3

4 Includes report generation of multiple formats, including automatic web publishing, XML generation and integration with advanced Excel functions using new features in Excel 2007 and What are the costs? GADD Analytics is a cost efficient solution that allows Trial before Purchase, enabling evaluation of performance without the risk of an upfront investment. You also avoid costly project implementation- and integration costs. ROI is short and total cost of ownership is low. 3. What is included in GADD Analytics? GADD Analytics includes several ready-to-use plug-ins, where each plug-in targets a specific business function. All plug-ins have the same technical architecture. The plug-ins can be used separately and can easily be integrated to existing data sources GADD Analytics plug-ins GADD Analytics contains the following plug-ins: GADD Analytics for Sales Monitoring GADD Analytics for Quality Analysis Damage & Returns GADD Analytics for Add-on Sales Figure 1 GADD Analytics via a web browser. GADD Analytics Overview page 4

5 3.2. Required hardware and software GADD Analytics is a client server application with minimum hardware requirements Web client requirements Access to the system only requires a modern web browser Windows client requirements GADD Analytics can be implemented on any client PC with any of the following operating systems: Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows Server requirements The server requires a data engine e.g. MS SQL Server Express (free up to 10Gbyte) or MS SQL Server and a MS IIS Web Server. 4. GADD Analytics for Sales Monitoring Sales are often registered in and monitored via several systems. Monitoring of sales is further complicated through the many different channels used, such as cash-and-carry, home delivery, e-commerce etc. GADD Analytics enables a consolidation of data from multiple sources into one, an easy to understand view that can be further broken down for detailed analysis. Sales information can be aggregated on different levels, e.g. sales by store, product area or region and broken down by different time periods including month, week or weekday. It is also possible to do a more detailed analysis on e.g. article, day, product type, location etc. Sales information is made available in real-time and provides unlimited sales history. Information can automatically be published on the intranet for the many users, but also allow ad-hoc analysis for the specialists. GADD Analytics for Sales Monitoring supports consolidated views of all sales, both on aggregated and detailed level. It also supports real-time integration and different views to meet each individual user s need of information. 5. GADD Analytics for QA Damage & Returns Articles can be returned or damaged during transportation or in warehouses which bring on costs that are not visible in traditional sales monitoring tools. GADD Analytics for QA Damage & Returns highlights problematic articles and brings attention to damages and returns that generate the highest costs whilst also explaining why and at what step in the production / delivery process the damages occur. GADD Analytics for QA Damage & Returns: Compares damages and returns between e.g. sales units and helps to explain the root cause. Identifies the articles that have the highest costs due to damages and/or returns compared to sales. Recommends which articles that should be analysed further based on frequency and type of damage and/or return reason. Allows analysis on individual damage events and transactions in order to determine the root cause of the damage. GADD Analytics Overview page 5

6 Providing instant access to the above information helps the organization to act quicker, improve quality and reduce costs. 6. GADD Analytics for Add-on Sales A strategy to grow sales is to make each customer purchase additional items, something we refer to as add-on sales. To maximize add-on sales, organisations need to combine three things: 1. Define the products that the customer should buy as add-on. 2. Know the products that the customer usually buys as add-on. 3. Be able to monitor and measure the result of existing Add-on Sales strategies. GADD Analytics for Add-on Sales makes it possible to detect and measure the add-on products that the customer purchases. It also makes it possible to generate suggestions to the customer based on the following three parameters: 1. The products that the customer already has in his basket or that the customer has bought in previous purchases. 2. The products that other customers with similar basket or purchase history has purchased. 3. The products that you want the customer to purchase as add-on. GADD Analytics for Add-on Sales increases the knowledge of what products are purchased together and helps to recommend products to be displayed close to each other. Efficiently used, the added knowledge in Add-on Sales helps to grow sales. 7. Contact Us If you have any questions or are interested in hearing more about our products, please do not hesitate to contact us on sales@gaddsoftware.com. GADD Analytics Overview page 6