Retail: How InterWorks can help monetize your data
We’ve worked with over 500 retail and consumer goods organisations to unlock the business value hidden in their data by converting it into revenue-generating opportunities. Retailers can monetize data directly by sharing anonymized customer insights with partners or indirectly by using data-driven insights to improve operational efficiencies, enhance customer experiences, and develop new business models.
Data challenges facing retail
Providing competitive intelligence for suppliers
Challenge: strong partnerships with suppliers are crucial to any retail operation. Being able to respond quickly to changing consumer demand and market trends can improve customer service and allow real-time adjustment of offerings and GTM strategies.
Solution: We develop cutting-edge, platform-agnostic embedded solutions which provide your suppliers with comprehensive analytics, data sharing and market intelligence.
The Need for Real-Time Analytics in Retail
Challenge: Retail operates in fast-paced environments where quick decisions on inventory, promotions, and pricing are crucial. BI Managers must deploy near-time analytics solutions to deliver timely insights while avoiding performance bottlenecks.
Solution: We design and deploy near-time analytics pipelines that ingest, sanitize, stage and transform data for insights, leveraging AI-powered CDW platforms.
Optimizing inventory and supply chain management in rapidly changing markets
Challenge: Inventory and supply chain management present significant challenges for suppliers, largely due to the unpredictability of customer demand, frequent supply chain disruptions, and a lack of real-time visibility into inventory levels.
Solution: Providing suppliers with tailored retail analytics enables more accurate demand forecasting and inventory planning, ensuring the right products are available at the right time.
Services
Strategy, vision and roadmapping
Define the direction for your Data & Analytics strategy. We’ll provide workshops to engage key stakeholders across your technology, analytics, business, and executive groups to identify priorities and clarify challenges. Backed by extensive experience translating ideas into real solutions, we support go-to-market planning, product definition, platform evaluation, and pilots or proof-of-concept initiatives to ensure your strategy moves efficiently from vision to execution.
Data Integration & ETL Services
Data Integration: Aggregating data from disparate systems (EHRs, LIMS, clinical trial data, IoT health devices, CRM, financial systems, etc.) to create a unified, accessible dataset.
ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) Services: Automating the extraction, transformation, and loading of data to facilitate seamless integration into BI platforms. This is essential for aggregating clinical, operational, and financial data to enable comprehensive analysis.
Cloud Solutions & Scalability
Setting up cloud-based BI solutions to allow healthcare and life sciences companies to scale their data and analytics capabilities as their needs grow. Cloud solutions provide flexibility, lower upfront costs, and enhance collaboration.
Embedded Analytics
Tooling and comprehensive strategies for integrating analytics and data sharing into your existing business applications and workflows, dedicated customer-facing products, or supplier-facing platforms through embedded analytics.
Solutions
Dashboarding Sprints
Whether you're launching new dashboards to track store performance, enhancing reporting to better understand shopper behavior, targeting new customer segments, or overhauling outdated analytics tools, our Retail Analytics Consultants will help you get there. From point-of-sale insights to omnichannel performance tracking, we offer support on a project basis or with long-term dedicated resources—tailored to your retail strategy and goals.
Embedded Solutions for Supplier Analytics
You're ready to deliver actionable insights through a custom analytics portal—whether it's for internal teams like merchandising and store ops, or external partners like suppliers and brand reps. In the fast-paced retail industry, timely, accessible data is key. Our embedded analytics team specializes in retail use cases and can guide you from concept to seamless delivery.
Cloud Data Platform Setup
Design and build a pipeline to extract, transform, and validate semi-structured and unstructured data—making it ready for use in your systems.
Unstructured Data Integration
Quickly launch a high-performing Cloud Data Warehouse using proven best practices. We’ll handle the setup, optimize performance, and support adoption—so you can get the most value from your data and pipelines right away.
Resources
UK Greetings used Tableau and Alteryx to automate stock replenishment and improve sales forecasting, boosting retail partner sales by over £1 million. The solution enhances reporting, predictive analytics, and in-store planning, strengthening retailer relationships and supporting additional functions like SLA compliance and sustainability across nine major clients.
Börlind, a leading natural cosmetics firm, uses Tableau, Matillion, and Snowflake to unify data from multiple sources for timely, data-driven e-commerce decisions. This scalable cloud solution enables seamless integration, efficient data processing, and cost transparency, empowering decision-makers with fast, accurate insights to optimize marketing, sales, and online analytics across platforms.
We explore how retailers across the UK are leveraging embedded analytics to:
- Provide suppliers with timely, well-governed insights to strengthen partnerships
- Drive new revenue streams through retail media networks
- Enhance collaboration across teams with centralized, self-service analytics
- EDeliver actionable insights to decision-makers at every level
