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Pi Solutions and Netezza invite you to participate in a free web seminar focused on how true item-level profitability analytics enable Retail and CPG companies to optimize revenues for the business by understanding and assessing their profits at the most granular level.

Ernie Levenson, VP of Operations at VTech, will join us and discuss how VTech has used profitability analytics to improve their business. Ernie will share his insights on how to successfully implement and leverage these solutions. Pi Solutions will provide a brief overview of their Pi Profit Analytics™ application, built to run on the Netezza platform. And, Netezza will briefly discuss its market-leading family of data warehouse appliances. Following the presentations, there will be plenty of time for Ernie, PI and Netezza team members to answer your questions.

This webinar will help you understand how item-level profitability enables your company to:

  • Make profitable decisions on product pricing, substitution and mix
  • Manage customer relationships and make fact based decisions on pricing and discounting, order size, delivery arrangements and supply chain efficiencies
  • Replace lowest price suppliers with lowest TCO suppliers
  • Highlight new opportunities in the business and provide financial justifications for decisions
  • Improve product development by providing product and merchandising managers information to optimize costs and maximize functionality
When:   Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Time:		  

 
10:00am PDT

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About Netezza

Netezza is the global leader in data warehouse and analytic appliances that dramatically simplify high-performance analytics for business users across the extended enterprise, delivering significant competitive and operational advantage in today's information-intensive marketplaces. The Netezza family of streaming analytic™ appliances brings appliance simplicity to a broad range of complex data warehouse and analytic challenges. Customers who have realized the benefits of Netezza appliances include Ahold, Amazon.com, CNET Networks, Debenhams, Department of Veterans Affairs, Epsilon, Nationwide, Neiman Marcus, Orange UK, Premier, Inc., Ross Stores, Ryder System, Inc., The Carphone Warehouse and Virgin Media. Based in Marlborough, Mass., Netezza has offices in Washington, DC, the United Kingdom and Asia Pacific. For more information about Netezza, please visit www.netezza.com.

 

 



About Our Featured Speaker

Ernie Levenson is the VP of Operations for VTech Communications, Inc., based in Beaverton, Oregon. Ernie’s responsibilities include directing Supply Chain, Logistics, Inside Sales, IT and business intelligence with multi-million dollar budgets for VTech Communications, Inc. Ernie also is responsible for the overall management of VTech’s brand license agreement with AT&T Inc. as well as overseeing all U.S. process improvement programs. Ernie drove a large-scale project to understand divisional pricing and profitability and apply business rules to rapidly analyze new business opportunities. He identified and developed process improvements for logistics and has Program managed Vtech’s global rollout of new Oracle ERP systems as well as business intelligence and supply chain applications. Ernie is one of the key sponsors of VTech's initiative to understand True Item Profitability through the implementation of Pi Profit Analytics™.

About Pi Solutions

Pi Solutions delivers innovative BI applications to significantly enhance business performance. Our goal is to offer solutions that empower businesses in achieving a better bottom line. Profit Analytics from PI Solutions enables companies to align and drive their strategies, tactics and operations based upon true profitability. Profit Analytics leverages Netezza OnStream Analytics for creating Business Defined Profit Models™ (BDPM) - a paradigm shift in Enterprise Information Management. BDPM user interface and other technology innovations from Pi Solutions, allows business users to build their business models directly into profit analytics. Companies can now build their profit applications in a quarter as compared to 18 months or more using traditional approaches. For more information visit www.pi-solutions.com.