O R A C L E D A T A S H E E T

Oracle Retail

Merchandising Analytics

Increasingly today, retailers are inundated with data and pressured to make

fast decisions based on that data. With every data-point, there is a potential

course-changing adjustment in strategy; retailers are discovering that

effective business intelligence is more critical than ever. Oracle Retail

Merchandising Analytics is a powerful mobile-enabled retail Business

Intelligence (BI) application that includes foundational functionality built on

Oracle’s BI/DW platform and technology. Oracle Retail Merchandising

Analytics allows retailers to work smarter by allowing them to better

understand their business. Decisions are informed and they can execute with

the confidence that they are positively impacting the top and bottom lines.

K E Y F E A T U R E S

• Industry-specific solution for enabling insights into merchandising operations

• Comes pre-integrated with a wide range of Oracle Retail solutions

• Provides Universal Adaptors for eased integration with non-Certified Oracle Retail Analytics data.

• Provides Commerce Anywhere-focused visibility, and greater support for the Commerce Anywhere solution

with pre-built metrics, reports and dashboards

K E Y B E N E F I T S

• Set of comprehensive and compatible retail-specific BI Apps

• Advanced insight into retail performance

• As part of Oracle’s common enterprise information model, can be co-deployed with other Oracle BI Applications

Introducing Oracle Retail Merchandising Analytics

Oracle Retail Merchandising Analytics is part of the Oracle Retail Analytics product

family – a modular and retail industry-specific solution. It removes data silos, surfaces

insights, and enables self-service business intelligence to business users. Oracle Retail

covers significant functionality across a breadth of solution areas to support retailers’

needs as they expand their support for various customer shopping journeys (i.e.

Commerce Anywhere). Oracle Retail defines Commerce Anywhere as the ability to

provide true connected experiences across channels, enabling consumers to transact

(research, select and purchase) and employees to interact (recommend, maintain,

service and return) anywhere, at any time and on any device. Delivering Commerce

Anywhere requires operational alignment and data transparency, connecting the retail

enterprise in support of the consumer journey.

Oracle Retail Merchandising Analytics ensures that insights can be drawn from those

customer journeys, through out-of-the-box certified packaged integration, integration

accelerators, and integration stubs for Retail Analytics, and the Universal Adaptor

approach to ease non-certified Oracle Retail Analytics integration. This allows for more

disparate sources to be brought together – that is, planning, supply chain,

merchandising, stores, commerce analysis and solutions - for more holistic insights and

analytics, which enable the enterprise to deliver on their brand promise.

In addition to packaged integration, ORMA has numerous metrics, reports and

dashboards out-of-the-box. These analytics have been designed to provide Commerce

Anywhere visibility, and offer greater support for the business process that they are

associated with like the Weekly Business Review.

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P R E - B U I L T I N T E G R A T I O N W I T H O R A C L E S O L U T I O N S I N C L U D I N G :

• Oracle Retail Merchandising System

• Oracle Retail Merchandise Financial Planning

• Oracle Retail Invoice Matching

• Oracle Retail Sales Audit

• Oracle Retail Price Management

R E T A I L - S P E C I F I C C O N T E N T :

• 127 Reports, Dashboards

• 53 Facts, 89 Dimensions

• 1244 Attributes

• 2277 Metrics, KPI’s

C O N S I S T E N T T E C H N O L O G Y P L A T F O R M :

• Oracle Database (with options)

• Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) or Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite (OBIFS)

• Oracle Data Integrator

• Oracle Exadata (optional)

• Oracle Advanced Analytics (optional)

• Oracle Exalytics (optional)

• Oracle Exadata (optional)

• Oracle WebCenter (optional)

R E L A T E D P R O D U C T S

• Oracle Retail Customer Analytics

• Oracle Retail Merchandising System

• Oracle Retail Price Management

• Oracle Retail Invoice Matching

• Oracle Retail Sales Audit

• Oracle Advanced Clustering

• Merchandise Financial Planning

• Oracle BI Applications

• Oracle Customer Hub

Through Oracle BI, these reports can be delivered in different formats such as desktop,

tablet and mobile. Oracle Retail Merchandising Analytics leverages the power of Oracle

technology, lowering total cost of ownership and simplifying support.

A Complete Retail Specific Solution

Oracle Retail Merchandising Analytics is built on the Oracle BI Applications platform,

and is therefore compatible with other BI Applications that cover domains such as

loyalty, marketing, human resources, and finance. Different BI Applications can be

merged to incrementally create an enterprise data warehouse that considers the entirety

of the business and enables cross-domain, retail + ERP + CRM analytics.

The Oracle Retail Analytics product family contains approximately 2200 retail-specific

Oracle BI metrics, 1200 attributes, and 125 reports and dashboards spanning many

subject and fact areas. Key subject areas include Customer Order, Inventory including

IMEI, Sales, Merchandising, RFM, Customer Loyalty, Household, Cluster, Trade Areas,

and Franchise and Wholesale (B2B), and many more.

Also included are “As-Is /As-Was” and Point-in-Time reporting for the Product and

Organization dimensions enabling users to account for reclassification while assessing

historical performance. Note that each of these three types of reporting can co-exist in

the same implementation.

Additionally, “Flexible aggregations” in which a very large number of aggregate tables

are available, can be customized during implementation to achieve an aggregation

strategy that best satisfies batch and reporting performance requirements.

Pre-Built Integration

Oracle Retail Merchandising Analytics provides packaged integration with the following

Oracle Retail applications:

Oracle Retail Merchandising System. Enables retailers to execute on their core

merchandising activities, including foundation data management, purchasing,

replenishment and financial inventory valuation.

Oracle Merchandise Financial Planning. Uses a cleansed view of history

(adjusting for stock outs) to seed a top-down financial plan and allows the creation

of top-down, bottom-up, and middle-out financial planning.

Oracle Retail Invoice Matching. Provides all of the data necessary to support

efficient processes for the verification of invoice accuracy and resolution of

discrepancies prior to payment.

Oracle Retail Price Management. A strategy-based pricing solution that executes

pricing decisions.

Oracle Retail Sales Audit. Provides the tools to evaluate point-of-sale data to

ensure the accuracy and completeness of information exported to downstream

systems used in optimization processes, financial reporting, and analysis.

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Universal Adapter Framework

Oracle Retail Analytics offers a Universal Adapter Framework to simplify the process of

moving source dependent extracts (SDE) into Retail Analytics staging tables for

customers with non-integrated data sources including non-Oracle data sources. In doing

so, customers do not need to invest in the design, development, testing, and

maintenance of SDE extract, transform, and load interfaces to move data into the Oracle

Retail Analytics staging area.

About Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Applications

Oracle BI Applications help organizations of all sizes thrive by enabling them to discover

new ways to strategize, plan, optimize business operations, and capture new market

opportunities. As the market leader in Business Analytics software, we deliver the most

complete and integrated solutions that let customers gain insight into every aspect of

their business, plan ahead, and act with confidence anytime, anywhere, on any device.

All Oracle BI Applications are powered by Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Plus, a high-

performance, highly scalable, and reliable next generation business intelligence platform

that can be used to extend existing analytic solutions to meet any enterprise business

intelligence need.

About Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) or Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite (OBIFS)

OBIEE/OBIFS is the central component of Oracle BI for creating queries, reports,

visualizations, and interactive dashboards. It is a comprehensive business intelligence

and analytics platform that delivers a full range of capabilities—including ad hoc queries,

mobile analytics, notifications and alerts, enterprise and financial reporting, scorecard

and strategy management, business process invocation, unstructured search and

collaboration, integrated systems management and more. OBIEE/OBIFS is built on a

proven and modern technological foundation that supports the highest workloads and

most complex deployments, while providing timely insights to users across an enterprise

at a low overall total cost of ownership.

About Oracle Exalytics

Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Engineered System is the world’s first engineered system

specifically designed to deliver real-time high performance analysis, modeling, and

planning. The Oracle BI Foundation, along with the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory

Database for Exalytics and Oracle Essbase, is the software foundation for Oracle

Exalytics. Special enhancements for Exalytics in the Oracle BI Foundation deliver the

fastest performance for the most demanding of queries to business users.

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About Oracle Retail

Oracle provides retailers with a complete, open and integrated suite of business

applications, server and storage solutions that are engineered to work together to

optimize every aspect of their business. 20 of the top 20 retailers worldwide - including

fashion, hardlines, grocery and specialty retailers - use Oracle solutions to drive

performance, deliver critical insights and fuel growth across traditional, mobile and

commerce channels.

C O N T A C T U S

For more information about Oracle Retail Merchandising Analytics, visit oracle.com/goto/retail or call

+1.800.ORACLE1 to speak to an Oracle representative.

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