DENVER -- RedPrairie Corp., a consumer-driven optimization company, has unveiled Retail Performance Management (RPM) for Petroleum & Convenience Stores.
Built on Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, RPM is a web-based analytic reporting solution that leverages the wealth of existing information from RedPrairie's retail operations applications and seamlessly synchronizes it with warehouse data, internal KPI's as well as industry benchmarks.
RPM provides inherent integration with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 [image-nocss] offering RedPrairie customers enhanced business intelligence tools to analyze retail operations data.
Microsoft continues to expand its partnerships with retail and hospitality solution providers, such as RedPrairie, which bridge the gap between people and the information needed to drive business success. Today's announcement brings us one step closer to our goal of enabling facts-based decision support and superior performance across the retail enterprise, said Bill Gonzalez, general manager of worldwide retail and hospitality industry solutions for Microsoft Corp.
We're pleased that Microsoft has embraced our approach to strategic retail performance management, said Kim Eaton, president of RedPrairie Retail Productivity Solutions Division, Denver. The addition of RPM to our retail operations suite, enables us to provide our customers with a cost-effective, flexible, well-integrated and complete offering, bringing the benefits of the strategy-focused organization to all of our customers.
Developed for business decision makers, field operations and marketing personnel, RPM puts the data and business rules for business intelligence on a centrally managed server and makes scorecarding, analytics and the entire performance management cycle much easier and less time-consuming.
RPM offers many unique advantages:
Interactive dashboards that zero-in on relevant data. RPM uses web-based visual dashboards that can be delivered to individuals based on their organizational role and location. The embedded Scorecards can contain KPI's and links to charts, tables and reports, allowing the business user to easily navigate to the relevant information. Based on a strong analytical foundation. RPM includes OLAP analysis that integrates with Microsoft Excel 2007 for fast, easy to use, ad hoc reporting. In addition, it provides visibility into business operations and factors impacting the business that allow for more flexibility and timely decision-making. Low total cost of ownership. RPM can be deployed as a secure, Hosted/SaaS solution that allows for rapid implementation. RedPrairie's hosted services have a proven 99.9% historical total system availability.
Built on an advanced Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) developed over the past 10 years, Milwaukee-based RedPrairie's integrated suite of solutions offers on-demand capabilities to more than 25,000 sites worldwide. Its E2e solutions synchronize people and products throughout the customer buying cycle to ensure goods reach the right place at the right time. At the point of sale, this means consumers have access to desired products and that the store is staffed with the right people to help them make their purchases. In the production cycle, it means suppliers and manufacturers time and synchronize shipments and production based on demand signals from the retailer. And in the back room of the store, it means having the least amount of inventory, solving the last yard problem of the retail supply chain, the company said.
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