June 09, 2008

Adding Value to Retail Link

Connect sales data from WalMart's Retail Link with other retail data to integrate your view.

Any WalMart vendor can tell you about the power of WalMart's Retail Link platform. Many vendors with broader distribution channels can tell you about the paradox.

The power is evident on first glance. Access to detailed sales data from the world's biggest retailer provides invaluable insight and predictive capacity for any business analyst.

The paradox appears when you want to compare Retail Link data with data from another large retailer - we'll use Walgreens as an example. It turns out that data from Walgreens is formatted quite differently than Retail Link, stymieing correlation and comparative analysis between the two spreadsheets.

When you introduce AWhere software, the map-based interface can compare sales performance with location as the common framework, data from these disparate formats can now be understood visually, and finally interpreted with business performance in mind.

Care to take a look?


	AWhere, Inc. - Products
	Review AWhere tools to see how to integrate your data.
	http://www.awhere.com/Products/Products.aspx

Topic Tags: business intelligence, data mashup, location intelligence, map excel, map sales data, retail link, walgreens, walmart

by Greg Berry

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