QuantiSense announces a new technology and management consulting offering, "Developing Your Playbook," designed to help retailers implement Business Intelligence (BI) best practices throughout their organization and fully leverage their BI software.

Developing Your Playbook was created to help retailers maximize the value of their BI investments and to remove their frustration with inadequate reporting. It uses many of the techniques employed in the QuantiSense packaged BI application and QuantiSense Playbooks, a collection of role-based scenarios or "plays" and situation analysis - such as allocating the right merchandise to the right stores to prevent costly out-of-stocks and overstocks, or identifying when orders should be cancelled or accelerated.

Developing Your Playbook pinpoints business challenges and opportunities and guides users down the path of action. As part of the offering, QuantiSense:

- Tracks the retailer's specific responsibilities for buyers, planners, allocators, store management, executives and other retail roles, then maps this to the QuantiSense model

- Surveys users to determine critical information and common problems for each role

- Develops a unique set of plays - the retailer's "game plan" for daily business - pulling the most appropriate and valuable plays from the full range contained within the QuantiSense Playbook

- Evaluates the retailer's current data warehouse and BI infrastructure, and creates a strategy for enhancing it to support the newly developed "plays"

- Works with retailers on how to obtain "quick strike" results with BI and how best to implement the Playbooks - through in-house IT resources, third-party consultants or by QuantiSense Professional Services.