Retailers: Getting to your bottom line quicker with real-time data visualization

Retailers: Getting to your bottom line quicker with real-time

data visualization

Presented by Datawatch, February 5, 2014

Joe Pusztai

VP of Solutions

Greg McKeever

Retail/CPG Practice Lead

Today’s Agenda

 About Datawatch and Next Generation Analytics

 About Solutions and the Retail/CPG Center of Excellence at Datawatch

 Trends and Themes in the Retail Industry

 Demonstration: Sales Analytics Blueprint for Retail (SABR)

 Next Steps / Q&A

About Datawatch

Founded in 1986, Public since 1992

 NASDAQ: DWCH

Pioneer in real-time visualization and transformation of any data

Global operations and support

 US, UK, Germany, Australia,

Singapore, Philippines

Extensive global customer base  99 of the Fortune 100

Resold and embedded by leading vendors

Premier & Expansive Customer Base

Services HealthCare Government

Other Industries

The Datawatch Difference

Next Generation Analytics, to Visualize Any

Data at the Speed of Business

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Only Datawatch provides Visual Data Discovery software that optimizes Any Data Variety, regardless of structure, at

Real-Time Velocity, to deliver next generation analytics to forward-thinking organizations.

Structured Unstructured High Low DATA VARIETY D A TA V O LU ME

Next Generation Analytics

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Traditional BI & Analytics

Next Generation

Analytics

Visual Data Discovery

together with the

data Volume, Velocity, and Variety that

forward-thinking

VISUAL

Data Discovery

• Easy for users to author, customize and share • Interactive exploration • Visually filter results

• Quickly identify anomalies and outliers with large or in-motion datasets

Recognized for innovation with In-Memory Computing

Modeled and transformed for analysis

Greatest Data VARIETY

• Structured, Relational and OLAP Sources

• Hadoop and Emerging Sources

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Semi-Structured Sources

Direct real-time and CEP connectors Active MQ CSV Database JSON KDB+ KDB+ Tick MDX MS Excel Odata OneTick

At the VELOCITY of Business

Access all structured and unstructured data sources HEA T M A P S CH A RTS TRE E MA P S Oracle One Tick CEP

Qpid SVG Sybase Aleri Sybase CEP Text Thomson R.. XML

Design & Model

The Leading Platform for Next Generation Analytics

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The Datawatch Solutions and the

Retail/CPG Center of Excellence

Capital Markets Supply/Demand Chain Network Management Life Sciences

• Risk • Portfolio • Execution • Profitability • Telco • Energy • Utilities • IT • Informatics • Analytics • Process Integration

Common characteristics

Time-critical | Visualization-ready | High “V-Factor” | Yield & correlation

• Retail

• CPG

• Manufacturing

Analytics Revolution in Retail/CPG

 “Best in class” use of information and analytics creates a competitive advantage

 Data access and analytic capabilities have been revolutionized in just a few short years:

 The availability and complexity of transactional data has grown exponentially over the past decade

 Data availability has exploded due to the collection of consumer activities on the Web, Social Media, and Mobile devices

 Sophisticated algorithms coupled with Visual Data Discovery lead to “real-time” data rich foresights

Trends & Opportunities

 Collection and storage of available information is outpacing our ability to assess and act on the analysis in an optimal manner

 Use of Visual Dashboards has not reached critical mass

 Information Optimization will drive analytic excellence

 Data Driven Commerce Platforms will play a critical role

 Data Trading Systems

 Real-Time Analytics

Success in the Transformed Analytics Age

 Datawatch’s Visual Data Discovery platform paves the path to

competitive success driven from real-time (or near real-time) analytic foresight

Is your organization prepared for

Visual Data Discovery adoption?

How to Accelerate Visual Data Discovery Adoption

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Establish corporate wide, unilateral commitment

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Be consumer centric

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Leverage advanced analytic & technical capabilities

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Build from the bottom up:

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Pragmatic implementation phases

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Functional ownership

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Existing sources of data

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Tie Visual Data Discovery capabilities to

measurable, critical success drivers

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Retail Analytics & The POS Challenge

Monitoring and auditing millions of dollars’ worth of POS transactions is a considerable challenge for any

retailer with POS terminals.

Manual extraction of data from POS transaction logs into analytical

output that is easy to interpret is a time-consuming endeavor… one that most retailers have no extra resources for.

Finding unexpected patterns, outliers, and relationships in the sales data is next-to-impossible.

That means lost opportunities to identify customer buying trends and patterns, or quickly responding to changes in customer demand.

Total Sales? Daily Store Sales?

Highest-selling Brand? Most Profitable Category? Number of

Customers Over Time?

Sales Transactions LOG Sales Transactions LOG Manager Other Data TXT Auditor Accountant

The Datawatch SABR Solution

Reports

XLS

SABR

Retail (SABR), powered by

Datawatch’s Next Generation

Analytics, is a visual data discovery

and data integration solution.

SABR allows you to capture,

transform, and then visualize the data from POS Transaction Logs.

SABR provides the dashboards you need for deep analytics & real-time visual data discovery.

SABR allows you to easily identify customer segment buying trends and patterns and quickly react to changes in customer demand.

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Manager Accountant Auditor

Sales Transactions LOG Sales Transactions LOG Other Data TXT KPIs Dashboard

Total Sales? Daily Store Sales?

Highest-selling Brand? Most Profitable Category? Number of

Next Steps

• Evaluate SABR dashboards in the Cloud

• Download the free product trial and the SABR blueprint

Datawatch Retail/CPG Solutions

Datawatch Corporation

271 Mill Road, Quorum Office Park Chelmsford, MA 01824 USA

Tel: +1 800.445.3311 (Toll Free US), +1 978.441.2200

[email protected] – email us today for more information!

www.datawatch.com – free trial software download