Silvon Software Partners with RPE to Bring a Web-Based Mobile Interface to Retailers

SOURCE:  Silvon Software

Business Intelligence solution provider Silvon Software, Inc. has partnered with retail consulting firm RPE (Retail Process Engineering) to bring a powerful,web-based business analysis software interface to retailers. Under the terms of the agreement, RPE will market Silvon’s Viewer interface for Performance Analysis by IDEAS, a client-server BI application for JDA Software Group’s Merchandise Management System. This new optional interface for Performance Analysis by IDEAS will provide many added features for today’s mobile
professionals.

“Viewer for IDEAS will empower our retail customers to easily deliver scorecards, dashboards and
reports to executives, line-of-business managers, store managers and numerous other stakeholders
across their value chains,” said Rob Henneke, Executive Vice President at RPE. “We’re pleased that
Silvon has provided this mobile solution, which will further enhance the value that RPE offers to our
retail clients.”

“It’s a pleasure for Silvon to team up with such a highly regarded consulting organization like
RPE,” said John Hughes, SVP Sales and Marketing at Silvon. “We look forward to helping their
IDEAS customers improve the effectiveness of their merchandising efforts by leveraging the
application’s processing power, industry best-practice metrics for analyzing point-of-sale and
inventory data, along with the latest advancements in information delivery technology.”
According to Hughes, the Viewer for Performance Analysis by IDEAS interface includes Portal and
Reporting Services functionality, allowing customers to create business intelligence portals and custom
reports out of the box without the need to invest in additional software. Another powerful feature of the
interface is its Exception Management facility, which allows retailers to monitor and react proactively to
various business conditions like poor performing locations, excessive shrink or void rates and end
delivery performance below required levels.

About Silvon Software, Inc. – www.silvon.com
Silvon Software is a global provider of business intelligence solutions for manufacturing,
wholesale distribution and retail organizations. Silvon’s solutions are predicated on the fact that a
better business understanding will empower the move toward an optimized supply chain. The
Company’s 1,800+ clients benefit from improving business practices and profitability by
leveraging analytic information on products, customers, suppliers and operational performance
via on-line views, scorecards and dashboards; automatically distributed reports; and numerous
other information delivery options.
About RPE – www.rpesolutions.com
As a leading retail consulting firm, RPE specializes in business process improvement, package
selection, strategic IT planning and systems implementation to deliver innovative POS,
merchandising and supply chain solutions. RPE also provides cloud computing services including
hosting, Software as a Service and managed services. RPE is a JDA Software Alliance Partner
and Value Added Reseller.

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