"Auto Parts Suppliers Benefit from Revolutionary Software Sharing Approach with “First of Its Kind” Capability within the IBM Business Analytics Marketplace"

Strategy 7 has announced an “Open” source platform for the potential members and subscribers that service the Automotive Aftermarket. PSA (Performance Strategy Analytics) is a uniquely designed product, powered by technologies from IBM’s Cognos Group, which helps small to large size Auto Parts Suppliers to not only survive, but also excel in their ability to make daily business decisions.

This concept allows companies to move and begin to report on transactional data that is otherwise difficult to assemble.  It also works to provide analyses of trends and assists with budgetary ‘what if’ models.   Current models of PSAs are geared toward inventory planning and warehouse execution, two identified areas that are critical to the success of automotive operations.  Strategy 7’s essential goal has been to construct a cohesive environment where professional consultants with technology expertise are matched with industry experts to create a “no charge application solution” to operate on world-class software from IBM.  After months of ongoing research and extensive collaboration with Auto Aftermarket industry leaders, the result is a completely customized, industry-specific, solution package.  

STRATEGY 7, one of the largest systems integrators in North America, specializes in the implementation of IBM Information Server products and services.  Customers with evolving business needs look to Strategy 7 to review their existing structure and to solve data control and best practices issues.  Growing businesses need to readily extract and format data following data governance best practices by isolating projects that are in development from actual production jobs. To accomplish this, Strategy 7 Corporation also includes the installation of IBM’s InfoSphere Information Server, specifically DataStage. 

PSA comprises several modules and elements that provide small and medium sized businesses much of the same capabilities previously only available to large corporations and at a high cost:

The PSA IP (Inventory Planning) module takes past inventory levels, combines them with embedded sales transactions, and gives insight into how to adjust as buyers and sellers change behavior in response to the existing economy.  Regionally based businesses that deal in parts or products until now have not had access to this vision into their business.  According to Joe Rodriguez, President of Strategy 7 and a pioneer for PSA, “We have hundreds of clients who have thriving businesses that operate on gut decisions, but with PSA, they can optimize their intuition and change expectations based on today’s buying patterns.”

PSA leverages three capabilities of IBM’s powerful Cognos suite of tools:

PSA ER – Executive Reporter provides business intelligence capabilities on a single, service-oriented architecture (SOA).  Small and medium size business will be able to author, share, and use reports that draw on data previously locked away, thereby enabling them to make better business decisions. 

PSA WP -WEB Profiler provides read, write, and what-if modeling capabilities allowing the creation of real-time Web-based worksheets, or “Websheets,” which support the functions, formatting, and graphic capabilities of Excel™ on the Web.
PSA ED - Executive Dashboard delivers advanced analysis and reporting to business users through real-time, Web-based access to information from online analytical processing (OLAP) data sources.  It is easy to use, provides self-service analytics, and features affordable, scalable deployment of sophisticated analytic applications throughout these smaller but important businesses.
The PSA suite was developed by a collective group of Auto Parts experts who connect the latest technology from IBM with aftermarket parts “best business practices”—creating a solution that keeps pace with the rapidly changing marketplace. Strategy 7 spearheaded these ventures and has exclusive marketing rights to these members.
Best of all, this reporting environment comes as a prepackaged, preloaded, and ready to use appliance for faster implementation by users.

In the future, Strategy 7 expects to deliver performance monitoring for many other business sectors in addition to the automotive aftermarket.  Rodriguez continues, “We approach auto parts warehouses, partner with Domain experts and leaders in best practices, and find firms that have similar software running their business, and we model our templates for scalable deployment
and leverage that reuse. “

Strategy 7, comprised of a powerful group of professionals with various software and platform experience, provides significant data-driven strategies that include data warehousing, data mining, and data mapping solutions.  The company’s expertise, coupled with industry best practices, maximizes the strength of the data integration and implementation process-- providing customers with the confidence of knowing that they have a solid partner working on their behalf.   The company has been committed to IBM’s Data Management Products for over 18 years and currently provides services to more than 66,000 users worldwide.  Clients include Berkshire Hathaway, United Parcel Service, MGM Mirage, Verizon, American Express, Union Pacific, EDS, State of New Mexico, State of California, State of Florida, Cigna, Baylor University, John Deere, British Tire and Rubber, Household Finance, Marriott, United Nations, and hundreds of others

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