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Modernising Data for the Retail Sector

In a fast-moving market, leading retailers are using data to understand customer behaviour, optimise operations, and gain a competitive edge. At Catalyst BI, we help you unify your data and modernise your analytics to enhance decision-making, drive efficiency, and deliver a superior customer experience.

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Reduce Operational Expenditure by 40% by migrating from legacy platforms to a modern cloud solution.

Is Your Legacy Data Warehouse Holding You Back?

Digital transformation has accelerated, but many retailers face common hurdles that limit their potential.
Reporting Delays and Failures:

Legacy SQL-based data warehouses struggle to keep up with data from PoS systems, e-commerce platforms like Shopify, and loyalty programs, leading to unreliable reports and a lack of business confidence.

Rising Operational Costs:

Inefficient data platforms not only increase operational expenditure but also lead to business bottlenecks, slowing down critical processes like inventory planning and financial forecasting.

Slow Data Processing:

Cumbersome, slow data loads prevent teams from accessing timely insights, making it difficult to react to sales trends, manage stock, and make informed decisions quickly.

Lack of Customer-Centric Focus:

Without a unified view of the customer across all touch-points, it’s impossible to achieve true personalisation, leading to missed opportunities for increasing loyalty and turnover.

How can you transform these data challenges into a competitive advantage?

The Solution: A Modern Data & Analytics Ecosystem

We migrate your core data from disparate sources into a modern, scalable cloud platform like Snowflake. By creating a single source of truth, we provide the clean, governed foundation needed for reliable analytics and a complete view of your business.

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Reduce Operational Expenditure by 40%
by migrating from legacy platforms to a modern cloud solution.

We provide intuitive dashboards that empower finance, merchandising, and operations teams with real-time visibility. From daily inventory planning to 15-minute financial forecasting, your teams get the insights they need, when they need them.

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Achieve 100% Reporting Uptime
to restore business confidence and ensure reliable decision-making.

We help you deploy AI to solve complex retail challenges. Use predictive models to forecast demand, prevent stock-outs, and reduce customer churn. Leverage generative AI to summarise staff sentiment, enhance customer service, and create effective marketing content.

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Reduce Stock-Outs by up to 30%
enabling smarter inventory management and improved customer satisfaction.

Real-World Impact for Leading Retailers

Our solutions deliver measurable ROI by replacing outdated systems with fast, flexible, and cost-effective modern data platforms.

Transform Retail Operations with a Modern Data Platform

Challenge: A luxury department store, Fenwick, was struggling with a legacy SQL-based data warehouse that caused reporting failures, rising costs, and slow data loads, impacting everything from financial forecasting to inventory management.

Solution: e migrated their core sales data to Snowflake, leveraging DataOps.live to accelerate development and release of new data products.

Result: The retailer achieved a 40% reduction in operational expenditure and 10x faster data processing. Reporting uptime is now at 100%, restoring business confidence in data.
Enable Real-Time Financial and Inventory Planning

Challenge: A UK leading retailers finance team needed faster budget visibility, and the auto-replenishment system was failing, preventing daily purchase orders based on sales and stock trends.

Solution: A new cloud data platform enabled seamless integration and dramatically improved processing speeds for key business functions.

Result: Financial forecasting reports now update every 15 minutes instead of overnight. The auto-replenishment system runs reliably, enabling daily inventory planning and optimised stock levels.
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Case Study
40%
Reduction in operational expenditure
100%
Uptime for sales and operational reporting
10x+
Faster data processing, freeing up engineers’ time to innovate

Begin Your Data-Driven Transformation

Ready to unlock the full potential of your retail data? Book a consultation with our experts and take the first step toward building a data strategy that delivers measurable results. We'll discuss your unique challenges, explore potential solutions, and create a customised roadmap to help you:

  • Assess your current data landscape 
  • Define a clear path 
  • Quantify the potential ROI