Tag: Technology

How GreatVines made the “Shift” to faster data processing

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Redshift is a massively parallel processing (MPP) columnar database system that was recently added to Amazon’s stack of cloud services. It is often brought up in the context of “Big Data” (think: scanning through Petabytes…
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Aptean BI – Business Intelligence Review

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Aptean announced at its Edge conference a corporate BI platform in QlikView. One size will fit all. Pre-integrated dashboards ready to go; you could change them but then that is your responsibility. These were the messages regarding Aptean…
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Aptean Edge Review – From Behind the Sign

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Roughly 1000 customers from a dozen computer systems have come to Aptean Edge at the MGM Grand hotel in Las Vegas, most happy to be out of the office and eager to hear the Aptean updates. Like most user conferences, Aptean Edge has sessions…
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Business Impact Launches a Cloud BI Solution

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This week we launch our Business Intelligence solution for the cloud – Business Impact’s SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) solution.  Clients often ask us, why BI in the cloud?  What does business intelligence in the cloud do for my organization? …
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How to use Surveys to Improve Execution at Retail

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Lots of companies do surveys. Surveying is important, especially at the beginning of key selling periods to drive execution, but most companies do it all wrong and waste the effort they put into the survey. You have…
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Convenience Stores Perform Market Basket Analysis To Increase Profitability

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One of the most valuable pieces of information in the Convenience Store industry revolves around your customers’ buying habits, their market basket analysis.  Understanding your customers’ behaviors to develop effective merchandising strategies…
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Take Control of Your Convenience Store Purchasing Data

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The glory days where distributors offered full guarantee on all spoilage seems to be gone and in general we see a trend of more and more activities being pushed downstream and your convenience store purchasing data is becoming more and more…
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Wine Depletion Data and its Influence on the 3 P’s

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How important to you is knowing your actual inventory level with your distributors? Or knowing which product is being sold out of which retailer? Some may say, not very, since your books already reflect a sale. Others may reason that it’s…
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Convenience Stores Increase Profits Through Waste Management & Spoils

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All convenience stores are aware of the impact of waste on profitability.  At the corporate level, are you getting access to the waste data in a timely fashion so you can quickly remedy the situation?  Store Managers are often head down busy,…