| Game selects ARC as its business intelligence of choice from Manthan Systems |
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| Best-of-breed retail business intelligence & analytics to power GAME's business |
| April 23‚ 2007 | Hampshire‚ UK |
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| GAME‚ Europe's leading specialist retailer of computer software and video games has selected ARC retail business intelligence solution from Manthan Systems for enabling enterprise-wide analytics and reporting. The best-of-breed solution made for the retail industry is now being rolled out through the GAME organization across its operations in UK and continental Europe. ARC is an enterprise data warehouse tightly integrated with a business intelligence platform that powers retail analytics for GAME business managers. |
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| Peter Crowne‚ Chief Financial Officer at GAME‚ said‚ “The retail-specific capabilities of ARC and its best practice approach gave us the ability to move much faster than we would have been able to do with more generic solutions. In our very dynamic business we need to be able to keep our finger on the pulse at all times and ARC will enable us to do just that.” |
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| Kiran Choubina‚ Director - UK Sales at Manthan Systems commented‚ “As this industry is very competitive and each game software has a very short shelf life‚ ARC will give GAME business users the agility required to take strategic and tactical decisions with up-to-date information on sales‚ stock movement‚ margins‚ promotions‚ regional performance and merchandise performance. These insights will allow GAME to react swiftly to changes in customer buying patterns.” |
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| Anand Sri Ganesh‚ Director – Marketing at Manthan Systems said‚ “We are very happy that GAME has underlined ARC’s superiority as the business intelligence solution of choice for the retail industry. We owe this success to peerless focus on the retail industry’s analytic needs‚ and this focus helps us deliver better value to retailers such as GAME.” |
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| ARC is a retail data warehouse and an integrated Business Intelligence suite specifically architected for retail. Being a specialized product exclusively built for retail‚ ARC dramatically reduces the deployment lifecycle and the total cost of ownership by cutting down the time needed to customize a business intelligence platform to the retail industry’s specific needs. ARC’s retail data model variants enable various retail formats like fashion & apparel‚ food & grocery‚ specialty and mass merchandise. The comprehensive data model is flexible enough to accommodate changing business dynamics across all functions from store to supply chain. |
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| About GAME Group PLC |
| GAME Group PLC is Europe's leading specialist retailer of computer software and video games. GAME operates from over 830 stores‚ concessions and franchises in the UK‚ Eire‚ Sweden‚ Denmark‚ Norway‚ Spain‚ Portugal‚ France and Australia. Together with GAME’s on-line shopping services‚ their aim is to be the destination of choice for every consumer. As a specialist‚ GAME has the edge over their competitors‚ due to their customer friendly policies‚ unrivalled product knowledge‚ pre-owned programme‚ pre-orders‚ 28 day returns policy‚ widest range of software and accessories‚ a credible in-store chart‚ console value and choice deals‚ constant offers and promotions and lastly their unique Reward card programme. The Reward card programme has over 7 million members‚ and is unrivalled in their industry. |
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| About Manthan Systems |
| Manthan Systems is a provider of specialised software solutions for the retail and consumer Goods industries. Manthan helps retailers capture and process data that can be leveraged to improve planning‚ monitor results‚ analyse and anticipate changes and mine opportunities. Manthan understands retail business practices and their technology underpinnings‚ having worked with a wide range of retailers and consumer goods companies‚ including Woolworths Germany‚ Haggen Supermarkets‚ Castorama‚ Ecco Sko. McDonalds and Haggar Clothing Co. For more information about Manthan Systems‚ please visit www.manthansystems.com. |
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