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How to get retail reports in seconds, not days
11Ants produces retail reports in seconds. You ask Ant in plain English, and it builds the table, chart or summary from your own loyalty, POS, budget and inventory data. Reports can be exported ready for Excel, written up for a board pack, or scheduled to arrive in your inbox. There’s no SQL, no dashboard build and no queue.
THE CHALLENGE
Why do retail reports take so long?
Most reports mean pulling data from several systems, reconciling it and rebuilding it in a spreadsheet. A simple comparison of store sales against last year and budget can take a day.
By the time the report arrives, the decision it was meant to support has often already been made.
THE SOLUTION
How does 11Ants produce a report?
Ant builds a report on request, and Ant Reports schedules it.
For the standard reporting the team runs every week, the Cards, Cross Tab, Day Store Product, Category Review and Data Validation modules produce it in a consistent format, with visualizations built for retail.
Ask for what you need
For example, “store performance last week versus last year versus budget.”
Refine it in conversation
Add measures, change the period or split by category, just by asking.
Choose the output
Ask for an Excel-ready table, a chart, or an email-ready summary for the board.
Schedule it
Ant Reports sends the same report daily, weekly, monthly or quarterly.
EXAMPLE QUESTION TO ASK ANT
QUESTION
Category contribution for November, compared by category with last year, in Excel-ready format.
WHAT ANT RETURNS
[Insert a real Ant answer from demo data: a category table with sales, share and change against last year, plus an export option.]
See Ant build a report
Demonstration data; brand names are illustrative.
What results do retailers see?
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
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Instant reporting FAQ
Can Ant export reports to Excel?
Yes. Ask Ant for any table in Excel-ready format and it produces a version you can download and work with directly.
Can reports be scheduled?
Yes. Ant Reports delivers custom reports daily, weekly, monthly or quarterly, each tailored to the user’s role.
How far back does the data go?
11Ants holds 27 months of rolling history, refreshed daily. That covers year-on-year and two-year comparisons for any store, category or product.
