SPS Commerce Delivers Supply Chain Intelligence to Retailers and Suppliers With Oracle(R) Business Intelligence Suite

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Mon Nov 2, 2009 8:00am EST

  REDWOOD SHORES, CA, Nov 02 (MARKET WIRE) -- 
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 News Facts


--  SPS Commerce, the leader in
multi-tenant Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) supply chain integration,
providing connectivity, visibility and intelligence to thousands of trading
partners around the globe, uses Oracle(R) Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise
Edition
(Oracle BI Suite EE) to deliver the SPS Trading Partner Intelligence
service, Oracle announced today. 
--  The SPS Trading Partner Intelligence service is a 100 percent
web-based, multi-tenant business intelligence application which offers
fact-based information to its 37,000 customers to help them optimize their
retail supply chains. 

    
Intelligent SaaS Service for Retail Trading Partners


--  Minneapolis, Minn.-based SPS Commerce offers supply chain services to
trading partners in the retail ecosystem, including retailers,
distributors, suppliers, 3PLs, transportation companies and others,
replacing manual fulfillment processes with automated and integrated
operations, including full integration support for Oracle ERP applications.

--  SPS Commerce's SaaS platform supports a complete set of transactions
exchanged between tens of thousands of trading partners daily. In late
2008, SPS Commerce formally released Trading Partner Intelligence powered
by Oracle BI Suite EE to offer customers unmatched insight and visibility
into key supply chain performance metrics that were previously very
difficult to attain. 
--  SPS Commerce developed a number of Trading Partner Intelligence modules
designed specifically for retailers, suppliers, logistics providers and
carriers to improve their decision making processes,
including:
--  Helping suppliers gain a better understanding of product
sell-through with interactive analysis of point-of-sale data from retail
customers.


--  Proactively identifying in-store issues, such as out-of-stock and
surplus inventory situations while improving forecast accuracy and
optimizing inventory levels.


--  Understanding supply chain bottlenecks for suppliers and logistics
firms with interactive analysis of fulfillment issues such as late or
incomplete shipments.


--  Providing retailers with visibility into detailed vendor
performance and compliance analyses, as well as enabling vendor
collaboration to identify continuous performance
improvements.


    -- SPS completed the implementation on time and within budget,
providing the scalability needed to deploy the platform to customers
quickly. To date, more than a dozen customers are taking advantage of SPS
Commerce's BI offerings. SPS Commerce anticipates that a quarter of its
customer base will adopt its intelligence service by 2012.  -- In
addition to serving as the BI platform for its customers, Oracle BI Suite
EE is used internally by SPS Commerce to monitor its transaction
performance, segment market data, and analyze billing data -- helping it
run its business more efficiently.  -- SPS Commerce runs its SaaS B2B
integration service on the Oracle Platform for SaaS, based on a grid
computing foundation including Oracle Database, Oracle Real Application
Clusters, components of Oracle Fusion Middleware, and Oracle Enterprise
Linux.  

     Supporting Quote
 "As the market leader, our customers expect
world-class supply chain integration service from SPS Commerce. With
Trading Partner Intelligence, we have elevated the value of our services
to a new level, providing insight and visibility that changes the way
they interact with their trading partners, driving new sales, and
improving customer service, while minimizing costly stock-out and
overstock situations," said David Novak, Senior Vice President of Sales &
Business Development for SPS Commerce. "The scalability of Oracle
Business Intelligence has allowed us to deliver world-class SaaS BI
applications in line with our integration services. We expect that within
three years, over 25 percent of our 37,000 customers will subscribe to
our Trading Partner Intelligence service powered by Oracle BI Suite EE."

     Supporting Resources

    Oracle Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence

    Oracle BI Brochures and Data Sheets

    Oracle Platform for SaaS

    Download free, evaluation versions of Oracle BI software. Terms,
conditions and restrictions apply.

     About SPS Commerce
 SPS Commerce is the leader in Software-as-a-Service
(SaaS) B2B integration, connecting every partner in the supply chain.
Retailers, manufacturers and 3PLs have selected SPS Commerce as their
outsourced provider to automate and integrate their trading
relationships. Using the SaaS model, SPS Commerce dramatically lowers
setup and on-going costs, along with the time and risks of traditional
EDI software by outsourcing the entire B2B communication process. The
company's offerings leverage its multi-tenant architecture, multi-party
sharing, and comprehensive knowledge of thousands of retailers' business
processes and specifications and integration expertise with a variety of
systems for accounting, ERP, packing and shipping, and WMS. SPS Commerce
is the recognized SaaS leader in B2B integration with 37,000 customers,
pre-built integrations spanning 2,700 unique fulfillment workflows across
1,300 retailers, grocers and distributors, a customer satisfaction rate
of 93% and the most comprehensive SaaS product suite available. SPS
Commerce is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For additional
information, please contact SPS Commerce at 866-245-8100 or visit
www.spscommerce.com.

     About Oracle
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software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web
site at http://www.oracle.com.

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