Business analytics and big data: Analytics shopping

The retail sector is on the cusp of radical transformation and analytics is the engine for change.

With over 20 years of experience delivering point-of-sale and business management software to retail, TRC Solutions is well positioned to assess the part that analytics plays in a sector that was badly hit by the recession.

“Analytics has become the differentiator,” said chief executive Gavin Peacock. “If there’s no intelligent analytics coming out of the data that is collected, there is no way that management can make informed decisions.”

He made the point ...