Data Visualisation & BI for Largest Retailer in Canada
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Largest Retailer in Canada
- One of Canada's largest volume retailers - operating 100+ stores across 6 regions selling furniture, mattresses, appliances, and home electronics - lacked timely, actionable business intelligence for operational, tactical, and strategic decisions. The existing system could not support drill-down, drill-up, or slice-and-dice analysis. With 50+ metrics and KPIs to track, data dispersed across disparate source systems, and a dependence on OLTP data stores for reporting, turnaround times were high and ad-hoc analysis was not possible.
- Implemented an end-to-end DWBI solution, consolidating data from all 6 regions across 100+ stores in different formats with 100% data security
- Operational Data Store and Data Warehouse implemented with Multidimensional OLAP for analysis of current and historical facts and KPIs
- Scorecards, dashboards, and dynamic reports introduced for senior managers, executives, and process owners — enabling what-if scenarios and risk assessment for future sales predictions
- 6 regional data sources and 100+ stores consolidated into a single DWBI platform
- 50+ metrics and KPIs tracked with drill-down, drill-up, and slice-and-dice capability
- 100% data security across all consolidated sources and formats
- Real-time scorecards and dashboards for senior managers and executives
- OLAP-enabled historical analysis and future sales prediction with what-if scenarios
From disparate data silos to unified BI across 100+ stores
Canada's largest volume retailer partnered with Kumaran to transform its reporting infrastructure with a full end-to-end DWBI solution, consolidating 6 regional data sources from 100+ stores into a single, secure analytical platform. The engagement delivered an Operational Data Store, Data Warehouse, and Multidimensional OLAP capability, enabling drill-down analysis, 50+ KPI tracking, and dynamic dashboards for leadership. For this retailer, the transformation meant moving from static, delayed reports to real-time, ad-hoc intelligence that could drive operational, tactical, and strategic decisions across every region and every store.
The Background
The retailer's existing systems were generating reports from OLTP data stores, causing performance degradation and high turnaround times. Data was siloed across 6 regions and 100+ stores in disparate formats, with no unified model for analysis. Business owners lacked the tools to perform drill-down, drill-up, or slice-and-dice analysis, and the static nature of reporting made ad-hoc analysis impossible. With 50+ metrics and KPIs to manage across a large retail operation, the need for a purpose-built DWBI platform was critical.
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