Friday, March 12, 2010

PLANALYTICS' INFORMATION, CONSULTING & TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS



Revionics is a leading provider of lifecycle price optimization, including base price, promotion, TPR, and markdown optimization technology for fast-moving consumer-goods retailers. The Revionics Advanced Pricing System (RAPS) generates increased sales and profits through sophisticated consumer-demand intelligence and proprietary retail-pricing science. The RAPS service includes weekly price remodeling, as well as scenario planning, forecasting, and category analytics. www.revionics.com


Supplemental offers Business Intelligence (BI) software Kits that transform a company’s complex operational data into timely, accurate information to support better decision-making and help optimize performance across the organization. Supplemental’s BI Kits are easily installed, cost-effective tools that can be integrated with multiple existing operational databases without costly data warehouses. www.supplementalsoftwaresolutions.com


JDA® Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS) is the world's leading supply chain solutions provider, helping companies optimize operations and improve profitability. JDA drives business efficiency for its global customer base of more than 5,800 retailers, manufacturers, wholesaler-distributors and services industries companies through deep domain expertise and innovative solutions. JDA's combination of unmatched services, together with its integrated yet modular solutions for merchandising, supply chain planning and execution and revenue management, leverage the strong heritage and knowledge capital of market leaders including Manugistics, E3, Intactix and Arthur.www.jda.com


Haver Analytics specializes in database and software products for economic analysis and business decision-making. Haver Analytics maintains more than 150 economic and financial databases from over 550 government and private sources. Databases cover the U.S., states, metro areas and counties, Canada, Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, China and other emerging markets. Haver Analytics is the sole provider of the Oil & Gas Journal Energy Database and also maintains key third party data including forecast and specialized databases covering the world economies. www.haver.com


aWhere is the business intelligence firm that transforms complex data into actionable insights through location intelligence. Unlike traditional analytical tools such as Excel, Access, or Oracle, aWhere provides info rich, interactive maps and reports that enable Sales and Marketing teams to integrate multiple data sources and allows non-quantitative staff to conduct complex statistical analysis with minimal training. Unlike mapping tools such as ESRI, Google Maps, or MapPoint, aWhere creates the ability for a firm to understand the root causes of performance and to take region, market, or store specific actions. www.awhere.com


Cash Grain Bids, Inc. is the leading source of cash grain market intelligence in the U.S., deploying numerous Web and software-based applications for more profitable commodity trading decisions. These include Cash Grain Optimizer, My Grain Trades, and GoGrain.com. www.cashgrainbids.com


KARS is a research program of the Kansas Biological Survey at the University of Kansas that conducts research on environmental and agricultural applications of remote sensing technology. In cooperation with its commercial partner TerraMetrics, Inc., KARS facilitates technology transfer of products and services derived from remote sensing technologies to commercial, governmental, and other end users. www.kars.ku.edu


AWIS was incorporated on April 26, 1996 as the Agricultural Weather Information Service, Inc.. The original focus was on providing agricultural weather services. The demand for services grew from other economic sectors, so we they decided to do business as AWIS (the abbreviation of Agricultural Weather Information Service) Although they still serve agricultural clients, much of their business today is with energy and utility firms, weather data services and forecasting for use in business intelligence, and in other specialized areas. www.awis.com

LAST MONTH'S WEATHER-DRIVEN DEMAND SNAPSHOT: February 2010

What is Weather-Driven Demand?

Events

Friday, Mar 26, 2010
WEBCAST: Easter/Spring Outlook 2010
Wednesday, Mar 31, 2010
Business Weather Intelligence Symposium (Northwest AR)
Thursday, Apr 8, 2010
Global Retailing Conference 2010
Monday, Apr 12, 2010
LDC Gas Forum South
Wednesday, Apr 21, 2010
World Retail Congress 2010

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