Analytics and BI solutions
Retail intelligence for
analytics and BI teams
11Ants gives retail analytics and business intelligence (BI) teams two tools on the same loyalty, transaction, budget and inventory data. Ant, an AI retail expert, answers the business’s routine questions in plain English in seconds. More than 40 research modules, with visualizations built specifically for retail, give analysts a faster way to do deep, repeatable analysis. Analysts spend less time on ad hoc requests and more time on the strategic work only they can do.
What jobs does 11Ants do for analytics teams?
Most retail analytics teams are stuck answering the same kinds of questions for every department, each wanting its own format. 11Ants takes that routine volume off the team:
Ant also helps with two other analyst jobs: checking data before it’s trusted, and surfacing patterns nobody has asked about yet.
What can the business ask Ant instead of the analytics team?
These are real question types from thousands of questions retail users have asked Ant:
How can I help?
Store performance last week versus last year versus budget.
What drove the growth in the breakfast subcategory against the prior year?
Which stores achieved budget and which did not?
Create an email-ready board update.
Run the exact table again, but in Excel-ready format.
Give me a summary for this store for these dates.
Add average order value and units per basket to total sales.
Category contribution for November, compared by category with last year.
Ant asks a follow-up when a question needs more context, so short questions work.
How can I help?
Store performance last week versus last year versus budget.
Category contribution for November, compared by category with last year.
Add average order value and units per basket to total sales.
Give me a summary for this store for these dates.
Run the exact table again, but in Excel-ready format.
Create an email-ready board update.
Which stores achieved budget and which did not?
What drove the growth in the breakfast subcategory against the prior year?
Ant asks a follow-up when a question needs more context, so short questions work.
How does 11Ants work for analytics teams?
11Ants sits on top of the data infrastructure you already have. There’s no new data warehouse to build.
Data sources
Connects to Microsoft SQL Server, Databricks, Oracle, Amazon Redshift, Teradata, SAP and Snowflake, or any system that can export tab-delimited files.
History
27 months of rolling data, refreshed daily through automated uploads.
Modules analysts use most
Cross Tab, Cards, Data Validation, Transaction Investigation and Category Review, plus 40 research modules in total.
Ant Reports
Scheduled daily, weekly, monthly or quarterly reports, sent to each user’s inbox.
Security
Hosted on Microsoft Azure, with data compressed and encrypted before upload.
See Ant answer a business question
Demonstration data; brand names are illustrative.
What do analytics teams say about 11Ants?
CASE STUDY
IDEA, Serbia: 2 to 3 hour jobs now take 15 minutes.
IDEA's analysts produce more reports, of higher quality, without writing SQL, and have more time to comment on the results.
Jobs that took the whole day now only take a few minutes and a few clicks in 11Ants.
Luka Jalšovec
BI Project Manager, Mercator
Now we can access the necessary information within a minute, freeing up time to discover new insights.
Nena Veselinović
Business & Data Analyst, IDEA
11Ants allows us to get information from our data almost immediately.
Trisha Franklyn
Retail Analyst, Category Strategy, Farm Source
Which other teams
use 11Ants?
Analytics teams support the whole business, and 11Ants gives every team answers from the same data:
Analytics and BI FAQ
Does 11Ants replace our BI tools?
No. 11Ants sits alongside your existing BI and data warehouse and connects to the data you already hold. It handles the routine, repeatable questions the business asks every day, so the analytics team can focus on bespoke and strategic work.
How accurate are Ant’s answers?
Ant and the research modules both work from your own data and apply consistent retail definitions for measures such as like-for-like sales and incremental uplift. Every answer shows the data and period it used, so analysts can check it.
What does the analytics team need to maintain?
Very little. After setup, data refreshes through automated daily uploads. There are no dashboards to rebuild for each department, because each user asks Ant or opens the research module they need.
Which databases does 11Ants connect to?
11Ants connects to Microsoft SQL Server, Databricks, Oracle, Amazon Redshift, Teradata, SAP and Snowflake. Any system that can export tab-delimited text files can also be connected.
Is 11Ants just an AI chatbot?
No. Ant takes the routine questions off the analytics team. The research modules are where analysts do their deep work: more than 40 ready-built retail analyses, including Cross Tab, Gain Loss and Store Twin, with visualizations built specifically for retail.
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11Ants is a Retail Intelligence platform used by retailers including Mercator, IDEA, Metcash, Konzum and Green Cross Health. Retail Intelligence is the decision layer on top of retail analytics: analytics tells you what happened, and intelligence tells you what to do. 11Ants gives teams two ways in: Ant, an AI expert anyone can ask in plain English with no training, available 24/7, and more than 40 research modules, ready-built retail analyses with their own visualizations for deep, repeatable work.