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Case Study:
Computer Patent Annuities

Our Customers

Integrated business intelligence solutions and services from SolStonePlus have benefited many of the world’s largest retail and services businesses:

  • Computer Patent Annuities  
  • Etam
  • House of Fraser
  • JD Sports
  • Ladbrokes Limited
  • Littlewoods Home Shopping Group
  • Scottish & Newcastle
  • The Co-operative Group

Customer Testimonial

“Having a single source of management information and being able to define reporting rules and naming conventions across the business ensures we have just one version of the truth.”
 
“They [our managers] can now view real-time data and answer their own questions within minutes. By reducing the need for day-to-day support, the new system enables the IT team to focus on more productive activities.”
 
“Using Oracle’s data warehousing and business intelligence tools data can be extracted and interrogated in minutes rather than days.”
Computer Patent Annuities
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In a fiercely competitive industry, where the market continually drives prices down, fast-paced organisational change is an inevitability. Data floods into a business from innumerable sources and systems, and in various incompatible file formats. Manually collating this information into a usable whole, capable of being analysed, is a time consuming and error-prone process which commonly leads to crucial data being overlooked.

An integrated business intelligence solution can take operational data from across the organisation and transform it into information and insight usable at all levels of the company. Equipping senior management with this comprehensive understanding of the business enables informed decision-making to drive sales, improve efficiency and ensure long-term profitability.

SolStonePlus for Retail & Services
Our Business Intelligence solutions enable the retail and services sector to enhance fundamental areas of their business, including:

  • Workforce can be diverted from data manipulation to analysis or other more productive roles.
  • Product line-up can be reconsidered and refined through geographical and historical profitability data. Innovations launched at the optimal time.
  • Market trends and the sales trajectory of new or supplementary products accurately predicted.
  • Supply inefficiencies highlighted producing information to drive fact-based negotiations or reconsider pricing structures.
  • Stock levels optimised by immediate access to information enabling informed decisions to reduce excess, enhance a Just In Time strategy, or respond quickly to market opportunities or threats.
  • Assets and capital managed more effectively by evaluating data and predicting future developments.
  • Third parties in the supply chain – suppliers, distributors and customers – granted data access, improving performance and communications.
  • Marketing strategy improved and costs controlled through evaluation of historical data.
  • Customer behaviour tracked in order to predict and retain.
 
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