Intense transformation in retail industry puts retail technology and information technology in key focus. The data collected from various 
sources is expected to converge together to derive actionable metrics and give a competitive advantage to retailer’s.
The data is collected in volumes from all possible sources. New technology deployments are driven by an increased focus to use this voluminous data to deliver a better customer experience. Mobile and instore point of sale (POS) systems, mobile apps, online stores, generate a tremendous volume of transactional data. This data is a critical source of information to retailers in providing new insights into operations and business.
With increasing reliance on real-time visibility across a multitude of platforms, today’s retail technology faces a formidable challenge in deriving actionable and accurate insights generated by different retail touch points.
iVend Retail helps retailers’ take full competitive advantage of the wealth of information present in transactional data with iVend Dashboards. These are build-in dashboards available in iVend Management Console. These include inventory snapshots, comparative sales by month, quarter, year; promotional sales, top sellers, gift certificate analysis, promotion analysis, top and bottom performers, sales contribution, sales trends and many more.
This application allows creation of fully interactive business intelligence dashboards for Retailers. iVend Dashboards includes a completely optimized drag and drop feature for faster creation of dashboards. These dashboards created can either be viewed from within iVend Management Console or viewed in any standard browser using the iVend web viewer. With iVend Dashboards, interactive drill down reports can also be created which can be viewed using a web browser.
iVend Dashboards extend a detailed snapshot of business performance levels. Effective, informative and intelligent analysis tools gather data in one place to report on essential KPIs for retail business. The dashboards can be tailored to uncover strategic possibilities within current plans and explore best paths to effect positive results and genuine sustainable improvement.
A retailer can now choose to build his own or modify dashboards to assess the progress of current performance levels. Retailers can now focus on different areas of analysis and swiftly customize each performance overview, Stay in sync with live and current retail metrics to remain in touch with retail business performance level even when on the move
By applying innovative purpose-built data management, reporting and analytics technologies with iVend Dashboards, retailers have the opportunity to take advantage to access and view retail insights to reap significant benefits — they can improve the end customer experience, increase wallet share and drive higher profits.
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