The Hindu Business Line : Haggen deploys retail biz solution

Bangalore June 14 Haggen Inc, a leading US food & grocery retailer, currently operating 32 supermarkets under the Haggen Food & Pharmacy and Top Food & Drug banners, has announced the enterprise-wide deployment of a retail-centric business intelligence and data warehouse solution (BI-DW). Haggen selected ARC retail business intelligence solution from the Bangalore-based Manthan Systems to enable analytics and reporting and Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation, to deploy an enterprise-class data warehouse. The solution is a joint offering from Manthan Systems and Teradata, exclusively for retailers, and comprises a retail-specific business intelligence solution and a comprehensive retail data model deployed on an enterprise-class, high performance data warehouse.

Mr Harrison Lewis, Chief Information Officer at Haggen, said the retail-specific capabilities of ARC and the high performance of Teradata, have given our business managers a powerful platform for retail analysis to aid their category management, operations performance, and inventory management decision-making processes.

Mr Anand Sri Ganesh, Director - Marketing, Manthan Systems said, the deployment spans sales and store operations, merchandising, promotions, inventory and vendor performance, and is being extended to include loss prevention and customer analysis.

Mr Rob Berman, Retail Vice-President at Teradata, said "through our partnership with Manthan Systems and with its ARC Integrated Retail Business Intelligence Suite, we can offer an enterprise-class solution at an attractive total cost of ownership and deploy it very rapidly and

help smaller retailers keep pace with the dynamic market with an industry-specific DW-BI solution tailored to their needs."