BANGALORE, INDIA: Manthan Systems, a leading provider of retail analytics and decision-making solutions, unveiled the latest edition of its retail performance management solution – ARC 5.8.

Packed with many innovative features and applications, ARC 5.8 may just be the most comprehensive solution available to retailer today. With capabilities to expand the decision making realm beyond the enterprise, ARC 5.8 features external market and competition data integration to a retailer's own data sources. With this, merchandise planners can benchmark their product performance with that of other markets and regions, in addition to profiling their store-specific assortments better.

Atul Jalan, CEO, Manthan, said, "We are extremely thrilled to launch ARC 5.8 for the retailers across the globe. We believe, there is no solution more comprehensive than ARC 5.8, in its capabilities for retail decision-making, With this version, we have definitively stepped into a leadership position in the retail business intelligence space. The superior product is an outcome of Manthan's mission to be the 'Chief Analytics Officer' of retail and consumer good organizations."

Vikas Gupta, CTO, Manthan, said, "Retailers can expect cutting edge performance management capabilities like superior dashboarding, scorecarding and benchmarking that can transform decision-making from reporting to 'actionable analytics'.

With seamless mobile integration, ARC delivers analytics 'on-the-go' to store and operations executives. With a mission to drive pervasive adoption of business intelligence across the retail organisation, ARC 5.8 simplifies the powerful underlying technology to give users a rich and easy-to-use analytic front-end."

With a large set of role-based analytics applications built-in, ARC 5.8 enables decision-making for every role in the organisation. Applications like assortment planning, customer analytics, market basket analytics, category lifecycle analysis, store productivity and benchmarking, loss prevention, planning and budgeting extends the capabilities of retail decision-makers in merchandising, marketing or store operations to take not just a decision, but the 'optimal decision'.