Total Hypermarkets Selects ARC Retail Business Intelligence Solution from Manthan Systems to Fight Retail Competition

Bangalore, India, January 15, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Total Hypermarkets, a division of the Rs. 4600 Crore ($1.15Bn) Jubilant Group, today announced that it has selected ARC retail business intelligence solution from Manthan Systems for its fast growing retail enterprise. Total hypermarkets expects to grow to over 50 hypermarkets in the next 5 years. Total selected ARC after an extensive competitive evaluation process involving several leading business intelligence (BI) platforms.

Chief Executive Officer at Jubilant Retail, Mr. Dinesh Malpani said, “Business intelligence is a key focus area for us and we expect to stay ahead of competition through better insights and a dynamic decision-making environment. With its strong retail focus, rich analysis & reporting capabilities, and a rapid speed-to-deployment proposition, we were convinced that ARC is the platform of choice for us. We found ARC’s retail centricity in addressing specific nuances of retail sub-segments like food & grocery merchandising, or fashion and lifestyle merchandising to be compelling benefits for our business users.”

Delighted with their first win with its recent foray into the Indian market, Mr. Atul Jalan, CEO and MD at Manthan Systems said, “Today fast growing and competitive businesses like Jubilant Retail have little time to build retail solutions, and ARC has perfectly plugged the need for a business intelligence solution that all the capabilities expected from a BI-DW platform combined with the retail business centricity that all BI-DW solutions have to inevitably deliver.”

About ARC
ARC is a retail data warehouse and an integrated BI suite specifically architected for retail. As a specialized product exclusively built for retail‚ ARC dramatically reduces the deployment lifecycle and the total cost of ownership by cutting down the time needed to customize a business intelligence platform to the retail industry’s specific needs. ARC’s retail data model variants enable various retail analytic formats like fashion & apparel‚ food & grocery‚ specialty and mass merchandise. For more information please visit www.arc-bi.com.

About Manthan Systems
Manthan Systems is a provider of specialised software solutions for the retail and consumer goods industries. Manthan helps retailers capture and process data that can be leveraged to improve planning‚ monitor results‚ analyze and anticipate changes and mine opportunities. Manthan understands retail business practices and their technology underpinnings; having worked with a wide range of retailers and consumer goods companies including Woolworths Germany‚ Haggen Supermarkets‚ Robinsons Retail Group, The Game Stores Group‚ Ferré, Novartis, Castorama‚ Ecco Sko.‚ McDonalds and Haggar Clothing Co. For more information about Manthan Systems‚ please visit www.manthansystems.com.

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