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On-Demand Webinar

How retail giant WHSmith drives rapid time to value with analytics automation

This webinar is part of Alteryx’s ‘Innovation Stories’ series, highlighting the journeys of analytics and business leaders who have used analytics to achieve business goals and transform their organizations.

In today’s economic climate, retail organizations face increasing pressure to constantly innovate, expand and grow, while lowering costs and driving efficiencies to remain competitive.

The Business Intelligence Team at global retailer WH Smith was tasked with a compelling business challenge: to harness the value of the data across WH Smith’s operations and deliver powerful insights into the hands of business leaders to enable new insights, unprecedented transparency, and data-driven decision-making.

In this webinar we’ll hear how WH Smith is leveraging data and analytics to:

  • Achieve immense results within just three months of Alteryx deployment, saving hundreds of hours per month on previous manual reporting and BI processes.
  • Combine people, technology and data to deliver a “forensic and innovative approach to retail”
  • Accelerate their analytical maturity journey by tackling quick wins, demonstrating value fast, and building a strong foundation to be successful in advanced analytics, machine learning and AI

Don’t miss this chance to learn how this retail giant gained a competitive edge, delivering in-quarter transformational results, new insights and opportunities for the future – powered by analytics.

 

Speakers

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Keith Guthrie

Head of Business Intelligence, WHSmith

Guy Whitley image
Guy Whitley

Director of Vertical Solutions, Alteryx

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Stephen Roberts

Regional Director at Billigence

 

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