Image Recognition

The solution Intelligence Retail is based on use of technologies of computer vision for recognition of goods of different categories for the purpose of control of existence and correctness of the calculation of goods in network of sales. A system allows the field employee of the company to obtain necessary information on the range and the calculation during 10 sec. The analyst's online in shops allows to increase efficiency of a visit, having excluded collection of information manually. Recognition of goods at the level of the list of the range (SKU), the prices and other information on a photo online gives new opportunities for increase in efficiency of sales. The expanded analytics based on visits allows the company to react quicker to market changes — including in problems of assortment management, high-quality and quantitative distribution.

"Our mission and the key purpose — to make process of the calculation and audit of outlet by more effective. Our tool allows to pay less attention to different calculations, and it is more — directly to work with the shelf and the range. All indicators are considered automatically on the basis of photos of the calculation of goods. Information on a calculation status, the prices, POS materials is available directly during the visit — as to directly field employee to understanding of achievement of KPI of a visit, and to managers on the portal of analytics — to timely response to deviations and understanding of insights of the market. The Danone company showed interest in increase in efficiency of a trade command, we, in turn, are glad to cooperation and we expect to increase efficiency of a visit of the employee of the company to outlet using our tool". Baramzin Sergey, CEO of Intelligence Retail company

2018: Embedding of IBM Watson Analytics technologies

On July 25, 2018 it became known that Intelligence Retail company, the resident of an IT cluster of Skolkovo Foundation, selected a product of IBM corporation for optimization of the main solution which will allow customers of the company to trace key indicators of audit of retail in real time.

According to developers, the analytical module Intelligence Retail created based on intellectual service of the business analysis and data visualization of IBM Watson Analytics will be able to process in real time large volumes of data for trade audit: existence of goods on the shelf, a share of the shelf, the price, a promotion action, etc. More operational and qualitative analytics will allow to optimize decision making on sales planning for each channel and the region of trade.

The solution Intelligence Retail allows to turn images of trade shelves into informative data source of trade audit while the IBM Watson Analytics technologies which are built in it will add functionality of identification of important communications and development of valuable recommendations for trade process improvement, noted in the company.

The solution Intelligence Retail digitizes more than 1 million photos a month that is equivalent to 500 million lines of the structured database from results of audit of retail. Embedding in this solution of IBM Watson Analytics technologies will allow customers to visualize Big Data of audit, turning it into the powerful tool for decision making for the purpose of increase in sales. Maxim Morozov, CEO of Intelligence Retail