Developers: | Oracle |
Last Release Date: | 2014/12/12 |
Branches: | Trade |
Technology: | BI, SCM |
Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server is a complex of the products used for formation of forecasts, development of trade plans and the analysis of a customer behavior.
These products use technology of intellectual studying of historical data and the forecast of the forthcoming actions.
Solutions of this group work at the general platform called by Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server (RPAS) which maintains functionality:
- multidimensional databases
- hierarchical data (hierarchy of a product, time and location of business)
- aggregation and dissemination of data
- spreadsheets and books for display and data management
- program assistants for creation and formatting of tables and books
- fast menus and toolbars
- management by exception and friendly interface of notifications
Screenshot of the program window, 2014
Features of RPAS
- Existence of a single technology platform for implementation of problems of planning and optimization
- Lack of need of internal integration — between different problems of planning and optimization
- Possibility of functional modification of proposed solutions by means of instruments of configuring, without the need for programming
- Possibility of functional expansion of proposed solutions (openness of internal language)
- Support of multi-layer system of differentiation of access rights
- Support of Cyrillics
- The accessibility to a system by means of — Web or ThinkClient that provides system availability to the staff of the company from any place
- Existence of examples of application of proposed solutions in the territory of the Russian Federation
- High performance of a technology platform
- Possibility of expansion of use of the platform for implementation of problems of planning and optimization
The structure of RPAS as platforms for planning
Principal components of the platform:
- Measurements for planning
- Business indicators (measurement and calculation formulas)
- System business of warnings
- Data reporting system — tabular data, graphical representation
Main actions for work with the platform:
- Aggregation and distribution
- Copying on a template
- Blocking of data arrays
- Analysis "that-if"
- Scenario analysis
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