Retail reporting and analysis
Every shopkeeper is familiar with the old cliché, "the customer is always right." But these days the customer is not only right — he or she is cynical, informed, cost-conscious, market-savvy, fickle, and brand disloyal. Retail success depends on the ability to provide the buying public with the products and services they want, in the varieties they need, at a price they are willing to pay, and to do this consistently and reliably — even in the face of shifting demand, fashions, and regional variances.

Databeacon brings these trends and variances to light. Its Business Analytics and Reporting capabilities allow retailers to quickly see which factors and interrelationships are most impacting the success of their business. It allows suppliers to more closely connect to the retail activity.

To satisfy the demanding consumer of today, managers, retail buyers, suppliers, store managers and individual customer service staff need insight. They need to know the answers to questions such as:

• What products do people want? And in what combinations of size, color, etc. do they want them?
  
• How do the various departments of a retail operation compare in sales/profit per square foot?
  
• What are the regional variations in buying habits and how must the product mix be altered to account for them?

Databeacon delivers the ability to analyze real-time data and generate accurate answers to these questions and others. No matter how large the retail operation, Databeacon gives anyone with a browser the power to put company data to work.