Burlington Coat Factory Selects QuantiSense's Retail Specific Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Application.ATLANTA -- QuantiSense today announced that Burlington Coat Factory Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation is a national department store retailer focusing on clothing and shoes, with over 360 stores in 42 states (as of 2006). In early 2007, the first location to be opened in Canada will be at the Vaughan Mills mall in Toronto. Warehouse Corporation has selected QuantiSense for its business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse solution and has begun implementation within its merchandising operations. With almost 400 stores nationwide and aggressive growth plans, Burlington embarked on a BI and data warehousing initiative in order to gain more merchandising insight, further streamline its reporting process, and continue to improve the quality and timeliness of its analytics. Burlington Coat Factory operates a complex merchandising mix that includes more than 10 million SKUs and multiple divisions, ranging from apparel and footwear to baby furniture and home decor. The company sought a BI solution that would put analytics and reporting in the hands of business users, allowing them to quickly access critical business information. Burlington Coat Factory evaluated 13 vendors and chose QuantiSense based on the company's exclusive focus on the retail industry, the use of industry standard hardware and software components, the ability for QuantiSense to handle the complexities of retail, and the ability for the QuantiSense software to be quickly implemented. "Businesses today can't afford to wait 18 months to implement a solution," said Brad Friedman Brad Friedman is a US journalist, , actor, director and comedian. Friedman has a BFA from New York University's (NYU) Tisch School of the Arts. He can speak using a High British, East London, Cockney, Irish, Yiddish, German and other dialects and has special skills that include , Senior Vice President of Information Services See Information Systems. , Burlington Coat Factory. "QuantiSense showed extraordinary responsiveness to our needs and quickly rose to the top in our evaluation process." QuantiSense software provides the retail-ready, online analytical tools that will help Burlington continue to improve its merchandising analytics. QuantiSense will enable Burlington Coat Factory to improve the consistency and timeliness of its data through role-based dashboards, exception reporting that pinpoints problems and opportunities, and QuantiSense Playbooks[TM], which capture retail best practices and guide users to take immediate action to improve their business. QuantiSense will source data from Burlington's homegrown home·grown adj. 1. Raised or grown at home. 2. Originating in or characteristic of a locality: "Rock is homegrown music in the United States, evolved from blues and country and Tin Pan Alley" systems as well as NSB NSB National Science Board NSB New Smyrna Beach (Florida, USA) NSB Norges Statsbaner NSB Naval Submarine Base NSB National Standards Body (RSA) NSB North Slope Borough for planning. The QuantiSense application provides both IT and business benefits to Burlington Coat Factory, including: * Strong merchandising analytics: The QuantiSense application will give Burlington Coat Factory the merchandising analytics it requires, out of the box. "QuantiSense has a very thorough understanding of merchandising," said Tara Newhall, Vice President of Merchandise Planning Merchandise Planning is a strategic and systematic approach used by retailers, particularly in fashion and non-food areas. It is aimed at maximising return on investment, through planning and monitoring sales, margins and inventory in order to increase profitability. Operations, Burlington Coat Factory. * Elimination of manual reporting tools: Through dashboards, exception reporting and Playbooks, QuantiSense software will eliminate the need for Excel spreadsheets and manual aggregation of data for reports. The QuantiSense application will allow Burlington's users to "work how they think," with stream of consciousness navigation and drill-down capabilities. * Fast implementation. Burlington Coat Factory closely evaluated the underlying technology of the QuantiSense application - everything from installing the software to the ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) The functions performed when pulling data out of one database and placing it into another of a different type. ETL is used to migrate data, often from relational databases into decision support systems. (Extract, Transform and Load) processes - in order to determine the resources that would be required for implementation. "We evaluated the overall level of effort required by both the vendor of choice and our internal resources to get the decision support application up and running," Friedman said. "QuantiSense will bring us a fast time to market in business intelligence." "Burlington Coat Factory is one of the top 200 retailers in the world and has a highly respected IT organization. The company's commitment to business intelligence further validates the fact that BI is a critical technology for retail," said Jeff Buck, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , QuantiSense. "Brad's team put QuantiSense through a very rigorous selection process, and we're proud that Burlington selected QuantiSense." About QuantiSense QuantiSense is the leading provider of business intelligence and data warehousing applications exclusively for specialty retailers. Customers include Casual Male Retail Group, FAO FAO, n See Food and Agriculture Organization. Schwarz, Guitar Center, Hallmark Cards Hallmark Cards, a privately owned American company based in Kansas City, Missouri, is the largest manufacturer of greeting cards in the United States. Approximately 50% of greeting cards sent in the United States every year are manufactured by Hallmark. , Pacific Sunwear Pacific Sunwear (also known as PacSun) is a shopping mall retail store that sells surfing and skateboarding clothing and accessories for teenagers and young adults. It was originally based in Newport Beach, California, United States. , Reitmans, Restoration Hardware and Spencer's. Implemented in 100 days, the QuantiSense application features a best-practices retail data warehouse, and ETL designed to integrate quickly with retail source systems and any database platform. Users conduct analysis using QuantiSense's packaged analytics, reports, and role-based dashboards tailored for executives, buyers, planners, allocators, and additional roles throughout the retail enterprise. To learn more, visit QuantiSense at www.quantisense.com. |
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