Qlik has revealed how its analytics solutions are assisting global retailers in order to maximize the value of real-time data for decision-making.
Qlik serves 2 of the top 3, and 5 of the top 10, NRF Top 100 Retailers to quickly modernize data pipelines and analytics to support newly imagined operations models with data that drives action, reduces churn and maintains customer satisfaction.
“With Qlik, we are providing a live view of performance to our teams and customers in each of the business units,” said David Moran, Supply Chain Director, KFC Europe. “This insight, accountability and transparency has been powerful in establishing confidence in the capabilities of our organization, and is the foundation of our vision to both protect and grow the brand with a world-class supply chain.”
“Fostering an analytics culture is where Qlik is a game-changer,” said Elizabeth Dalton, Director at Luxottica Retail. “The rich variety of visualizations available in Qlik leads to immediate data exploration and insight generation, which eases our users away from their static reports.”
Dorel Industries designs and manufactures sport, home and juvenile products enjoyed daily by millions of people. The Home division started deploying Qlik in 2017 with Qlik Cloud Business, then moved to Qlik Sense Enterprise SaaS in 2019. Today, all three of Dorel’s business units leverage Qlik, with sales, operations and eCommerce gaining visibility through Qlik to more than 8000 SKUs across dozens of retailers.
Burger King, the American-based multinational fast-food franchise, has deployed Qlik Sense regionally to support business intelligence that is central to its management transformation, including having a flexible and user-friendly system for analysis of sales and finance.
Kendra Scott is a fashion-lifestyle brand, specializing in jewelry, home decor, gifts and beauty. Kendra Scott invested in Qlik Sense SaaS to deploy cloud analytics as a key element in their digital transformation.
Business users in Finance, Operations, Sales, Marketing, and Sourcing can now obtain near real-time insights across retail stores, eCommerce, BOSS and BOPIS sales in a self-service environment. Leveraging Qlik, Kendra Scott was able to start fast with SaaS, releasing their first apps to production within one week.
Additional retailers using Qlik products include: Rapide Brow & Lash Bar, in Sweden, Fenwick, and Travis Perkins, in the UK; REI, Best Buy, and Walgreens, in the United States; the Asia Pacific division of Chanel, Chow Tai Fook, in Hong Kong, as well as Malabar Group of Companies, in India, among others.
“Retail companies are shifting from passive to active business intelligence models, which emphasize the need for real-time data to inform decision-making,” said Poornima Ramaswamy, Executive Vice President, Global Solutions and Partners at Qlik.
