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Industry: Retail Application(s): Database: Netezza Performance Server Database Size: In development Number of Users: In development Deployment Type: In development |
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"We chose MicroStrategy as our enterprise-wide reporting standard because it was the best fit for our business intelligence requirements. MicroStrategy provides a true enterprise reporting solution, with outstanding scalability for large databases and powerful analytics that will help us to make data-driven decisions and enhance productivity."
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Success Story: Pacific Sunwear of California, Inc.
Using Dashboards to Deliver Answers to Executives,
Merchants, Merchandise Planners, and Allocators
In 2007, Pacific Sunwear of California, Inc. selected the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform™ for enterprise-wide reporting and analysis. Pacific Sunwear is a leading specialty retailer with more than 1,100 stores in 50 states and Puerto Rico.
Pacific Sunwear will use MicroStrategy to analyze key merchandise sales and inventory metrics to glean insight on the sales trends and inventory investments of its products by specific regions, demographics, and stores. MicroStrategy will convert the detailed transactional data into personalized reports through dashboards and exception reporting for Pacific Sunwear’s executives, merchants, merchandise planners, and allocators. Pacific Sunwear selected MicroStrategy for its ease-of-use, superior reporting and analytical capabilities, and its Web-based platform.
“We chose MicroStrategy as our enterprise-wide reporting standard because it was the best fit for our business intelligence requirements,” said Ron Ehlers, Pacific Sunwear’s Vice President of Information Services. “MicroStrategy provides a true enterprise reporting solution, with outstanding scalability for large databases and powerful analytics that will help us to make data-driven decisions and enhance productivity.”
MicroStrategy teamed with Netezza and QuantiSense to provide Pacific Sunwear with a complete end-to-end solution for its data warehousing and specialty retail business intelligence requirements.
“We are proud to be working with Pacific Sunwear and providing insightful reports and analytical data to support its network of retail stores,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju Bansal. “MicroStrategy is embraced by retailers because of our scalable and flexible platform that enables them to analyze volumes of transactional data and gain vital intelligence on essential areas such as sales trends, inventory management, store operations, and customer loyalty.”
Pacific Sunwear, operating under three distinct retail concepts, is a leading specialty retailer of everyday casual apparel, accessories, and footwear designed to meet the needs of active teens and young adults. As of July 7, 2007, the Company operated 842 PacSun stores, 118 PacSun Outlet stores, 153 demo stores, and nine One Thousand Steps stores for a total of 1,122 stores in 50 states and Puerto Rico.