Oracle is the only vendor achieving the highest level of assessment (“very comprehensive”) in the evaluation’s four major categories - core demand-forecasting capabilities, breadth of functionality and customer-centric features, usability, and IT integration.

IDC Retail Insights, an advisory services and market research firm focused on the retail industry, defines RDI as “leveraging data/information for more efficient and effective business decision making” and states that using RDI solutions “improves the precision of pricing, product assortments, channel/store placement, and promotion, all essential for sustainable revenue management performance.”

According to the report, Oracle achieved the highest level of assessment in core demand-forecasting capabilities due to its “strong retail-centric planning capabilities and its highly integrated – yet modular – retail software suite, which makes it easier to provide a range of process-specific, demand-centric optimization features.”

Oracle was also cited for its “solid forecasting science foundation” and was praised for its ability to “deliver a single demand-forecasting engine underpinning multiple business functions (e.g., sourcing promotion, merchandising, staffing decisions, etc.).”

Additionally, Oracle was the only vendor that received the highest level of assessment in IT integration.

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