Retail services
Welcome to the retail renaissance
Focus areas:
- Business Transformation
- Cost Optimization
- Scientific Retailing
Today’s retail is a dynamic ecosystem, driven by customer experience, omnichannel retailing, artificial intelligence, and supply chain resilience. Sustainability in fashion shapes consumer choices, and as we look ahead, the strategic integration of GenAI promises transformative possibilities. From last-mile capabilities to reverse logistics, Blueprint will journey with you where tech-driven innovation meets the heart of retail’s needs.
Strategic solution sets
Robust solutions built for high-value business use cases
Demand Forecasting:
Intelligent Supply Chain:
Pricing Optimization:
Inventory Optimization:
The future of retail
with Blueprint
Solution capabilities
Smart inventory management
Demand forecasting:
Intelligent solutions can use historical sales data and external factors to predict demand accurately, helping retailers optimize inventory levels and reduce costly overstock or stockout situations
Automated replenishment:
AI-driven systems can automatically trigger reorders when inventory levels reach a certain threshold, streamlining the supply chain and ensuring product availability.
Personalized customer experiences
Customer segmentation:
Intelligent systems can analyze customer data to create detailed segments, allowing retailers to tailor marketing messages, product recommendations, and offers to different customer groups.
Real-time personalization:
AI-driven recommendation engines can provide real-time product recommendations to customers based on their browsing and purchase history.
Checkout and payment automation
Self-checkout and mobile payment:
Intelligent retail tech enables self-checkout kiosks and mobile payment apps, enhancing the shopping experience by reducing checkout wait times and improving convenience.
Automated price verification:
Automated systems can verify prices, ensuring customers are charged correctly and reducing pricing errors.
Loss prevention and security
Video analytics:
AI-powered video surveillance systems can detect suspicious behavior or theft in real time, improving loss prevention efforts.
Fraud detection:
Machine learning algorithms can analyze transaction data to identify fraudulent activities and prevent financial losses.
In-Store analytics and optimization
Heatmaps and foot traffic analysis:
Intelligent solutions can provide insights into customer behavior by analyzing store layout, foot traffic patterns, and hotspots.
Space and layout optimization:
Data-driven recommendations help retailers optimize store layouts, product placement, and signage to enhance customer flow and boost sales.
Featured offerings and accelerators
Unity Catalog Migration
Our solution, powered by the Lakehouse Optimizer, propels your UC migration process, expediting it while minimizing errors, thanks to our meticulously crafted and rigorously tested solution.
Lakehouse Optimizer
Optimize your lakehouse costs, minimize your total cost of ownership, and drive more value from your cloud workspaces with the Lakehouse Optimizer by Blueprint.
Databricks Focus for Retail
Data sharing & marketplace
- Build a network of data consumers, monetized & secure with Delta Sharing
- Use Databricks Unity Catalog + Delta Sharing to build a data sharing marketplace for your company.
- Ensure the right data are shared to the right people at the right time.
Unity Catalog & SQL analytics
- Advance your company’s visibility, security & discoverability with Unity Catalog.
- Build a complete Data Warehouse complete with tagging, search, and discoverability.
- Empower business and data analysts to find data in seconds.
- Master security auditing with Databricks’ auditing capability
English as the new analytics language
- Use the new SparkAI tools and OpenAI to radically improve your analytical capabilities.
- Empower Citizen Developers by removing difficult tasks like UDFs and windowing functions.
- Develop an Advanced Analytics practice w/ Databricks using simple natural language capabilities.
Data privacy & governance
- Demonstrate data governance, engineering & security excellence.
- Support privacy-compliance goals using Databricks' native features
- Apply data quality, masking, tagging, and catalog management to drive Privacy goals.