Predictive analytics delivering greater insight

SUNFLOWER ANALYTICS provides an integrated environment for predictive analytics and descriptive modeling, data mining, text mining, forecasting, optimization, simulation, experimental design and more. Our analytic solutions provide a range of techniques and processes for the collection, classification, analysis and interpretation of data to reveal patterns, anomalies, key variables and relationships, leading ultimately to new insights for guided decision making.

Components of SUNFLOWER® ANALYTICS

• Data and Text Mining – Build descriptive and predictive models and deploy results throughout the enterprise.
• Data Visualization – Enhance analytic effectiveness with dynamic data visualization.
• Forecasting – Analyze and predict future outcomes based on historical patterns.

How SUNFLOWER Is Different

Only SUNFLOWER offers an integrated suite of analytics software, delivered to you in a single environment.

• Explore and use corporate data for strategic business advantage.
• Analyze huge quantities of data to make discoveries, solve complex problems and deploy results throughout the enterprise.
• Obtain the best results and discover new insights more quickly and easily.
• Extend the power of SUNFLOWER to meet your evolving analytical needs.

Service Offerings

Forecasting

Econometrics/Time Series prediction: Offers a broad array of time series, forecasting and econometric techniques that enable modeling, forecasting and simulation of business processes for improved strategic and tactical planning. It can help you understand the impact, that factors such as economic and market conditions, customer demographics, pricing decisions and marketing activities have on business.

Benefits

• The depth and flexibility of the SUNFLOWER modeling environment can accommodate any business scenario. For example: Analyze the impact of promotions and events.
• SUNFLOWER ANALYTICS can provide forecasts of demand for services so that organizations can maximize staff resources.
• SUNFLOWER ANALYTICS enables you to maximize marketing efforts by understanding which product features are important to a particular audience.
• SUNFLOWER ANALYTICS software can help you understand which key business drivers are having the highest impact on consumer demand.

High Performance Forecasting:

High-Performance Forecasting automatically generates large volumes of reliable forecasts to support the planning and decision making at all levels of business, including the most operational level. Its automated sophistication enables you to produce better forecasts in less time, with less effort.

Benefits

• Produce trustworthy forecasts that reflect the realities of your business.
• Focus on what’s most important.
• Reduce bias and forecasting errors.
• Improve inventory management.
• Improve forecasts for items that rarely sell.

Large Scale Forecasting:

Forecasting Service generates large quantities of high-quality forecasts quickly and automatically, allowing organizations to plan more effectively for the future. The unsurpassed scalability of SUNFLOWER Forecasting Service enables your business to operate more efficiently at all levels by quickly and automatically producing statistically based forecasts you can trust.

Benefits

• Delivers forecasts in a quick and timely manner through a user-friendly graphical interface.
• Provides forecasts that reflect the realities of the business, improving your ability to plan future events with confidence.
• Improves forecasting performance across all products and locations, at any level of aggregation.