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ARC for JDA applications
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If you are looking to build the best business intelligence environment around your JDA applications,
think ARC.
 
 
   Enhance your decision-making capability to the next level

Key Benefits

Comprehensive performance management platform

Enhances your existing capabilities with rich, web-based retail analytics

Go-Live in less than 80 days

Seamlessly integrates with JDA MMS & PMM systems

Integrates analytics across JDA and non-JDA systems

Read a whitepaper on how ARC solves challenges like

Data quality, accuracy and performance

Understanding retail business and process nuances

Data synchronization and single view of business

Impact of change and growth in business

ARC is a comprehensive retail business intelligence and performance management platform for retailers using JDA* merchandising systems (MMS & PMM). ARC significantly enhances the analytic capabilities of the JDA platform by providing a rich and easy-to-use web-based user experience and a cutting edge BI platform.
ARC Features
ARC is a pre-built, out-of-the-box solution designed to explicitly address the business processes, business practices and technology nuances of retail. ARC comprises a retail-specific enterprise data warehouse and business intelligence suite, incorporating an integrated stack of sophisticated components like score-carding, dashboarding, intuitive information architecture, cube analysis, actionable reporting, Q&A engine, business activity monitoring and a data integration accelerator for JDA. See ARC features in detail
What can ARC do for you?
With ARC, JDA users can overcome many challenges and rigidities of their transaction system in its reporting and analysis capabilities like:

Inflexible and static reporting with no support for advanced filtering, collaborative decision-making, proactive alerting etc.

Storing many years of historical data and enabling YOY and TY-LY analysis

Getting a consistent, accurate view of the entire business from merchandising to sales

Monitoring performance with dashboards, scorecarding and benchmarking methods

Integrating analytics across JDA and non-JDA systems

Performing analysis across multiple calendar definitions

Creating a common analysis platform for attributes from JDA and non-JDA sources

Avoiding inconsistent values for a key performance metric between different reports
ARC BI platform enables a wide range of analytical capabilities with unparalleled flexibility to change and extend the scope of their analytic processes without any IT support.
Seamless integration with JDA systems
With a built-in JDA connector, customers can seamlessly integrate multiple JDA and non-JDA systems, unstructured data sources into a single data warehouse. The JDA connector is designed to understand and anticipate key JDA data structures across systems like MMS, PMM, Arthur planning, and so on. The connector accelerates BI readiness and ROI with an assured 80-day enterprise deployment. With pre-integrated process logic for data synchronization, late poll updates and delayed corrections, the connector ensures the quality and accuracy of the enterprise analytics platform.
Learn more about the solution architecture
The super-specialized product has been designed for various retail segments like food & grocery, fashion & lifestyle, general merchandise, and a range of specialty retail businesses.
Retailers like Game Group and Robinsons are leveraging the analytic capabilities of ARC to complement their JDA investments and take their business to the next level of decision-making and performance management. With ARC, they have experienced improved margins, better customer retention, inventory efficiency, promotion effectiveness and increased share of customer wallet while having less markdowns.
* JDA, MMS, and Portfolio Merchandise Management (PMM) are trademarks of JDA Software Group, Inc.