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Manthan CEO Jalan argues retailers need complete analytic solutions, not business intelligence toolkits

Manthan CEO, Atul Jalan, Speaks to BeyeNETWORK in an Exclusive Interview

BANGALORE, India, October 1, 2008 -- Atul Jalan, CEO and Managing Director at Manthan Systems, speaks in an exclusive interview to BeyeNETWORK ( http://www.b-eye-network.com/spotlights/) about Manthan's passion to truly enable business intelligence for retailers.

Citing the reasons for low extent of user penetration and data-driven decision making in retail, Mr. Jalan highlights the limitations of current business intelligence players in their approach to specific markets like retail by providing toolkits instead of complete solutions. He explains, "The critical task of aligning a tool with retailers' decision making processes, practices and technology nuances is left unaddressed. To realize the full potential of business intelligence in retail, solutions should speak the language of the specific industry and especially the specific segment of that industry, for example food & grocery retail or fashion & lifestyle retail."

Mr. Jalan states ARC Retail Business Intelligence from Manthan is a result of their passion for enabling decision making for retail. ARC Retail Business Intelligence, a best of breed solution for retail decision making from Manthan Systems is designed to understand the intricacies of retail analytic processes and the optimal underlying information architecture. Offering an industry solution instead of a toolkit helps us reduce a typical enterprise deployment time to less than 16 weeks, a benefit of much value to retailers in today's fast-paced and competitive business environment.

Mr. Jalan goes on to say "With ARC, not only do retailers have faster speed to benefits, but they are also able to accelerate their business intelligence strategy instead of starting from scratch. A lower deployment time also means significant saving in deployment costs."

Having an intuitive retail-friendly interface, and a broad suite of analytic applications like merchandise & assortment analysis, category lifecycle analysis, store productivity benchmarking, new product performance analysis and many more, ARC Retail Business Intelligence gets a much wider adoption in the retail organization compared to traditional business intelligence toolkits.

Quoting on their plans for the future, a confident Mr. Jalan says, "We are already on the cutting edge of retail business intelligence with the latest version of ARC, 5.8. Featuring a wider suite of retail analytic applications and a collaborative decision making realm beyond internal data sources to include external market data formats, ARC is miles ahead among retail decision making technologies. Our future releases will see a higher intelligence quotient with automated process interventions from analytic applications."

To listen to this interview, visit BeyeNETWORK (http://www.b-eye-network.com/spotlights/player/?spot=manthan_0808)



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