Analytics Gallery

Pre-built data visualization analyses with root cause data mining capabilities.

“Just add data!” Salient integrates with your existing infrastructure. Each visualization shown here is pre-built with interactive root-cause visual data mining capabilities, recognizes date & time records automatically, and can be directly transitioned from one perspective to the next without having to setup each visual from scratch. The system automatically recognizes your selected date and context as you change from one analytical perspective to the next. Multiple window views can be saved to create a Dashboard style view.


Normal Trend

Identifies behavior over time for list members for any attribute, and allows easy identification of bottom-line results with rubber-banding capability for pre, during, and post event (peeks & valleys) analysis.

Example:
(1) Evaluate lift and elasticity at a SKU level or brand level; retail chain by retail chain or customer channel by customer channel. Drill-in (filter) then list target SKU’s for de-listing or better promoting.
(2) Track performance over-time vs merchandising objectives to identify if goals in share gain, margin gain, new customer gain and more

Technical Description:

  • Attribute – One group at a time – enables quick viewing of each member of a group, like trends by a particular customer segment
  • Time – Any user-defined series of Days, Weeks, Months, Years, etc.
  • Data Measure – One or more Quantity, Net Price, Unit Margin, etc.

Normal Trend


Share Trend (%)

Displays performance MIX trends

Example:
- how has a new brand cannibalized an existing brand.

Technical Description:

  • Attribute – One (all members)…all stores within a region
  • Time – Days, Weeks, Months, Years, etc.
  • Data Measure – One…Net Revenue

Share Trend Percent


Share Trend (Total)

Tracks share over time; great for mix management or evaluating performance within a growing portfolio of SKU’s and new products. Identify bottom-line results with rubber-banding capability for pre, during, and post event (peeks & valleys) analysis.

Example:
(1) Identify how new SKU’s impact sales of existing SKU’s within any selected category
(2) Evaluate how a new placement (customer, shelf-set, brand) impacts sales of others within the same group

Technical Description:

  • Attribute – Can isolate one member within any attribute, or compare an entire group …all stores within a region
  • Time – Days, Weeks, Months, Years, etc.
  • Data Measure – Any, user-defined, one at a time: Net Revenue or Margin Mix


Comparative Time Series

Displays performance trends for multiple time periods
Technical Description:

  • Attribute – One at a time..East Division
  • Time – Compare any two time frames, extremely flexible.
  • Data Measure – One or more such as Units Sold, Net Revenue, Facings, Inventory, etc.


Exception Time Series

Provides PASS/FAIL test results based on user-defined criteria/conditions, over time . Enables listing of the group members who passed or failed the chosen test conditions.

Example:
(1) Product lifecycle, showing customer purchases of a SKU or brand over time to track depth of penetration and rate of retrial.
(2) To identify successful and un-successful introduction lists of customers by segment.
(A simple example test – List customers who purchased at least once or didn’t purchase at all.)

Technical Description:

  • Attribute – any one part of the business (a customer test or a product test), any attributes: snacks category, dairy…
  • Time – One or two periods
  • Data Measure One or more Pass/Fail criteria can be set for one or more data measures, supporting, if then, ranges, and/or and more.

Exception Time Series


Exception

Provides PASS/FAIL test results based on user defined criteria/conditions then enables one to list results and drill into individual list members.

Example:
(1) Customer meeting specific margin/profit criteria
(2) Products that were sold last period, but were not sold this period (lost sales)
(3) Customers that purchased a group of certain high-margin products last chosen period, but did not re-purchase at desired volume range this period (gap analysis / voids)

Technical Description:

  • Attribute – One or more: Brand, Package, etc.
  • Time – One or two periods
  • Data Measure One or more Pass/Fail criteria can be set for one or more data measures, supporting, if then, ranges, and/or and more.

Exception


Crosstab

Identifies Summary Performance Matrix; Comparing any 2 Parts of the Organization

Example Use:
(1) Brand performance within each channel.
(2) Inventory level at each warehouse for each supplier.

Technical Description:

  • Attributes – Any two attributes
  • Time – Days, Weeks, Months, Years, etc.
  • Data Measure – One or two


Range

Shows how two measures fall into ranges or “buckets” of values. Then, it enables jumping to the lists that make-up any “bar” or range to see SKU level or Customer level (Key list) results.

Example:
- Classic example is price point range analysis: identify how many units sold in certain price ranges ($10 – 15 per wholesale unit), ($15 – $20), ($20 – $25)… fine-tune price with demand or test new prices. The capability enables listing results from the graph – SKU’s or customers to target-market.
-Other examples: inventory on-hand vs on-order, Retail units sold vs Price to Consumer, quantity sold vs margin

Technical Description:

  • Attribute – One (all members)…all sizes of a specific product.
  • Time – Days, Weeks, Months, Years, etc.
  • Data Measure – Any two compared to one-another


Geographic

Provides Geo data-mining for visualization and root-cause filtering into the lists of members displayed

Example:
Plot on a map the impact of how frequency of delivery could save distribution cost

View Salient Geo Brochure
Technical Description:

  • Attribute Supports viewing of several at a time (color by one, marker by another, choose a main focus/context for another
  • Time – Days, Weeks, Months, Years, etc.
  • Data Measure – One or two Quantity, Margin, etc.


Comparative Analysis

Identify Performance Metrics for any Segment

Example Use:
- Begin at a summary view of financials, then use math pointer tools to identify variance (Difference & % Change) or Mix changes. Spot gains or losses this season vs last, by brand, region, sales rep…, then list the target group of SKU’s or Customers.

Technical Description:

  • Attributes- Up to 2 attribute at once, eg: Brand Performance by Customer Segment
  • Time – Choose any time frame: single or comparing 2 periods, in terms of days, weeks, months, years, or user-defined financial calendar or business-day tables.
  • Data Measure – One or more Quantity, Revenue, Cost, etc.


Multi-Comparative

Tracks performance for multiple user-defined periods of time. Common for Financial Analysis. Interactively drill, filter and change perspective while retaining selected time periods.

Example:
- Revenue vs Budget for: This Week, This Month, This Qtr, YTD, all vs last year and all in one consolidated view.
-Isolate problem points in time; jump directly to lists of SKU’s or Customers that stand-out.

Technical Description:

  • Attribute – One or more: Brands, Key Accounts, etc.
  • Time – Flexible, User-Defined, able to compare more than two periods in one view, etc.
  • Data Measure – One or more Sales, Margin, Cost of Goods Sold, etc.


Scattergram

Plots a matrix of any two measures in attempt to find outliers or to identify an economic curve.

Example:
- Perform price vs. quantity relationship comparison for all customers who purchased a specific product
– Plot customers based on volume sold and margin, to identify low-volume and low-margin accounts to target for new trading terms

Technical Description:

  • Attribute – One…Region, Division, Specific Customers, Products, etc.
  • Time – Days, Weeks, Months, Years, etc.
  • Data Measure – Two…Quantity and Margin, Net Price and Unit Margin


Bubble Chart

Displays a matrix of three measures and how they correlate

Example:
- sales by price-point plotted by margin percent

Technical Description:

  • Attribute – One or two Category, Brand, Division, etc.
  • Time – Days, Weeks, Months, Years, etc.
  • Data Measure – Three…Quantity, Revenue, Margin


P & L Format

Displays a matrix of measures and their change vs. any two time periods or vs. budget data

Example:
- chain store activity detail

Technical Description:

  • Attribute – One (specific member)…store, salesperson, product
  • Time – Days, Weeks, Months, Years, etc.
  • Data Measure – Multiple


Average Per Member

Displays PASS/FAIL and average per period performance of key members who pass or qualify based on the criteria

Example:
- Average sales per store of stores that were open during the same time period last year

Technical Description:

  • Attribute – One…all sizes of a specific product
  • Time – One or two periods of time
  • Data Measure – Average for one measure based on one or more performance criteria


Average Per Member Time Series

Displays PASS/FAIL & average performance trend information for key members
Technical Description:

  • Attribute – One…product brand
  • Time – Days, Weeks, Months in a Series
  • Data Measure – Based on one or more performance criteria


Line Item

Displays line item details attached to any of one key member*

Example:
- by customer(product purchases by line item) for specific period of time
*must first be drilled into a key member…example specific customer and/or product

Technical Description:

  • Attribute – One by any attribute member…specific product within a category
  • Time – Days, Weeks, Months, etc.
  • Data Measure – One or more


Time in Place

Displays changing conditions over time

Example:
- asset placement history by customer (which assets are in place over time & historical status
- by asset (which customers over time & historical status)

Technical Description:

  • Attribute – One by any attribute member…specific vending machine
  • Time – Days, Weeks, Months, etc.

Time & Place


Mix-Time

Displays comparable SHARE performance

Example:
- change in region contribution to total sales & volume distribution

Technical Description:

  • Attribute – One by all members…all products within a category
  • Time – Days, Weeks, Months…for any two
  • Data Measure – One or more


Mix-Data

Displays SHARE performance

Example:
- Regional contributions of total sales

- Margin/Profit contribution by store within a region/area

Technical Description:

  • Attribute – One by all members…all customer market segments
  • Time – One period of time
  • Data Measure – One or more


Knowledge Manager

Enables Collaboration panels that allow users to align soft-knowledge that is generally unstructured and not in a database anywhere with the structured information. Pictures, plans, explanations, PPT’s, documents along with commenting, definitions, data-dictionary and more.

Example:
-Bookmark Info Panel – One can use that panel for explanation of purpose, notation of the owner, commenting on observations, training on how to use the starting-point for root-cause analysis.
-Member Info Panel – Attach a picture of the outlet, information about the store manager, comments to others servicing the same account…
-General Info Panel – Provides a data-dictionary that can be used for defining what each measure means, where information is sourced from. It also provides a place to attach over-all solution / company information like training manuals, mission statements, annual plans. Last, it provides a place for each user to define their profile information for collaborating.

Technical Description:

Fully-Integrated “context-aware” content management system (CMS) with document and file sharing capability.