daVinci Retail vs SAS Intelligent Planning Suite
daVinci Retail
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| Figure | daVinci Retail | SAS Intelligent Planning Suite |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 0 | 1 |
| Spec score · Retail Merchandise Management Software | 8.0 (#4) | 7.2 (#12) |
| Assortment planning | Assortment Planning supports tailored buys for multiple channels, stores, and customer groups using a calculation engine. | SAS Assortment Planning creates localized assortments informed by consumer and trade-area demand. |
| Financial planning | Merchandise Financial Planning supports strategic merchandise plans and open-to-buy planning across retail channels, including ecommerce and wholesale. | SAS Financial Planning helps set merchandise financial goals, control spending and optimize inventory investments with intelligent open-to-buy. |
| Founded | 2005 | 1976 |
| Headquarters | Somerville, New Jersey, USA | Cary, North Carolina, United States |
| Integrations | The platform supports web services, RESTful, and SOAP connectors, as well as common data formats and delivery methods. | SAS Demand Planning integrates with SAS Visual Forecasting and SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning. |
| Purpose | daVinci Retail helps retailers plan and buy merchandise assortments tailored to customers and financial goals. | The suite forecasts shopper and consumer demand to support merchandise and assortment planning. |
| Security | The technology page says built-in AWS security and identity provider features enforce secure authentication. | SAS describes its Trust Center as covering security, privacy, compliance and quality for its products and services. |
Plans
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In their own words
daVinci Retail
daVinci Retail provides merchandise planning software for enterprise retailers, covering buying, assortment planning, item planning, and merchandise financial planning. Canvas Buying brings buy plans into a shared cloud application backed by a central enterprise database. Assortment Planning supports tailored buys across channels, stores, and customer groups, while Merchandise Financial Planning supports strategic and open-to-buy plans across retail channels, including ecommerce and wholesale. Item Planning helps manage time-phased buys for core items and track sales and inventory against open-to-buy plans. The broader suite includes forecasting, store clustering, and size profiling, as well as allocation management, pricing and markdowns, and product hierarchy capabilities. Retailers can implement selected modules. Its web applications are cloud-based, delivered through AWS, and require no installation; the Buy Management System can also run on a customer server or cloud provider. Integration options include web services, REST and SOAP connectors, APIs, CSV automation, and spreadsheet imports. Pricing is available on request.
SAS Intelligent Planning Suite
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