Pick 'n Pay is improving the delivery performance of its corporate reporting environment with the implementation of Sybase IQ to service the company's supply chain reporting requirements.
A management information reporting system (MIS) based on the Sybase IQ data warehousing architecture will provide fast and cost-effective delivery of management reporting.
"Despite being in early stages of development, IQ is already delivering improved performance corporate reporting," says Harold Dawson, IT director at Pick 'n Pay.
As the largest supermarket chain in SA and with dynamic international growth, Pick 'n Pay has an ongoing need to hone its business strategy daily to maintain its leadership position in the retail sector. The company required a highly cost-effective, scalable reporting solution that could integrate data from many operational systems into a single source of management and decision support information.
The phased implementation of Sybase IQ began in May 2003 as part of an ongoing business intelligence operation.
The load speeds, performance and disk space-saving capabilities of the software enable enhanced data access.
Dawson sees Sybase IQ playing a significant role in all Pick 'n Pay's data analysis and storage requirements in the long term. The solution has already been successfully implemented at the company's FMCG subsidiary in Australia.
"IQ's efficiencies of are considerable," says Kirsten Milner, account manager at Sybase Cape. "The solution can store up to 10 times more data than conventional systems with equivalent disk capacity, greatly reducing the high data storage costs, and enabling Pick 'n Pay to hold more transaction history without incurring the resultant costs associated with alternative offerings."
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