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Webinar April 1st 2009, at 10 AM PDT: The Power of Item Profitability Analytics

Pi Solutions and Netezza are jointly sponsoring a free web seminar focused on how true item-level profitability analytics can enable Retail and CPG companies to optimize revenues for the business by understanding and assessing their profits at the most granular level.

Ernie Levenson, VP of Operations at VTech, is the key speaker at this event. Ernie will discuss how VTech has used profitability analytics to improve their business. Ernie will share his insights on how to successfully implement and leverage these solutions. Pi Solutions will provide a brief overview of their Pi Profit Analytics application, built to run on the Netezza platform. And, Netezza will talk about its market-leading family of data warehouse appliances.

This webinar will focus on how item-level profitability enables a company to:

  • Make profitable decisions on product pricing, substitution and mix
  • Manage customer relationships and make fact based decisions on pricing and discounting, order size, delivery arrangements and supply chain efficiencies
  • Replace lowest price suppliers with lowest TCO suppliers
  • Highlight new opportunities in the business and provide financial justifications for decisions
  • Improve product development by providing product and merchandising managers information to optimize costs and maximize functionality

This event is recorded, and is available on-demand, to view click on: The Power of Item Profitability Analytics

Pi Solutions exhibits its solution to Retail Market

NRF 98th Annual Convention & Expo, New York, NY - Jan 12th, 2009 - Pi Solutions Inc. exhibited its Profit Analytics application at National Retail Federation (NRF) 2009 show. In this show Pi Solutions exhibited its software application at the Netezza Booth. Profit Analytics application enables Retailers in improving their profitability by identifying and analyzing profitability in their product categories, stores and customer segments.

Retailers are always looking for ways to improve their profitability. In economic times like these, Retailers are looking at ways to sustain profitability with declining revenues and slowing sales growth. Profit Analytics is a great fit for retailers as it helps them realize profit opportunities in their existing business and make profitable decisions about cost reduction and business expansion initiatives.

Pi Solutions unveils Profit Analytics at Netezza User Conference 2008

Netezza User Conference - Sept 16th, 2008 - Pi Solutions Inc. unveiled Profit Analytics application at Netezza User Conference (NUC) 2008.

Profit Analytics from PI Solutions enables companies to align and drive their strategies, tactics and operations based upon true profitability. Profit Analytics leverages Netezza OnStream Analytics for creating Business Defined Profit Models (BDPM) - a paradigm shift in Enterprise Information Management. BDPM user interface and other technology innovations from Pi Solutions, allows business users to build their business models directly into profit analytics. With Profit Analytics companies can now build their profit applications in a quarter as compared to 18 months or more using traditional approaches.

Profit Analytics extends Netezza's datawarehouse appliance concept to a profitability appliance and can be implemented quickly and easily - typically within a quarter as opposed to over a year with conventional ETL based approaches. Pi leverages Netezza and its Onstream Analytics capabilities to perform the complex and extensive computations and make available the granular profitability information in just a few hours as opposed to days & weeks needed by traditional architectures.