QuantiSense Ships Retail BI, Analytics for iPad 
QuantiSense’s latest BI/analytics software sports dashboards designed exclusively for the Apple iPad. The latest version, QuantiSense 4.7.2, also boosts reporting to provide retailers greater insight into business data.
QuantiSense’s latest BI/analytics software sports dashboards designed exclusively for the Apple iPad. The latest version, QuantiSense 4.7.2, also boosts reporting to provide retailers greater insight into business data.
The company’s latest version aims to allow retail execs, not only specially-trained business analysts, the ability to use interact with data and highlight problem areas directly from the iPad dashboard and touch screen, according to Jeff Buck, CEO, QuantiSense. “The simple, intuitive iPad dashboard interface unlocks the creative potential of our retail analytics like no other platform in the market,” Buck said in a statement.
QuantiSense for the iPad provides this access to business-critical information:
- At-a-glance KPI summary displaying the top departmental key performance indicators
- Graphical sales trends across departments, items and time periods
- Highlighted exceptions in lost sales, stockouts, and overstock metrics
- Flexible drill downs into the details by class, store, SKU, etc.
- Inventory analysis, including top-selling and low-selling products across departments
QuantiSense also updated its “retail playbook” offerings, which provides retailers a set of pre-designed “plays” aimed to help businesses quickly fix problems, be more competitive, and show more profits. Each of these “plays,” are role-based by retail job function and allocators, buyers, and planners strategies and data to take action. Some sample plays include”
Play #1. Accelerate: Diminishes potential lost sales by prompting users to find hot-sellers with orders and insufficient reserve that may need to be accelerated to fill demand.
Play #2. It’s Ours Again: Highlights items with a disproportionately high rate of return, to signal potential vendor quality problems.
Play #3. Cut and Run: Prompts users to mark down certain merchandise in order to quickly make room for new product.
The new release also includes a new “season” attribute to help ensure users know if an item is a basic or “seasonal” item, and decide when and how much to mark down inventory.
