Overview

The Oracle Retail Analytics and Planning platform is the common and extensible cloud architecture for analytics and planning solutions.

The platform supports Oracle Retail applications across each of major analytical categories, including:

• Descriptive and diagnostic with merchandise, customer, and consumer insights.

• Predictive with demand forecasting, customer, and location clustering.

• Prescriptive with assortment, pricing, and inventory optimization.

The platform also supports Oracle Retail merchandise and inventory planning solutions. These solutions support business responsiveness through a highly interactive user experience and drive the best outcomes with the application of advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI).

As a common platform, it provides a centralized data repository, lean integration APIs, and an efficient portfolio of delivery technologies. The data repository reflects a comprehensive data model of retail planning, operations, and execution processes. The integration APIs support right-time interactions: a lean set of bulk, on-demand, and near real-time mechanisms. The delivery technologies represent a portfolio of connected tools to build and extend composite solutions using fit-for-purpose analytical, application, and integration tools.