Kx Technology Overview

Kx for Retail

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Kx is a division of First Derivatives plc. Listed on the London Stock Exchange [FDP:LN] First Derivatives is a specialist software and consulting organization with a uninterrupted track record of customer success and profitable growth since it was listed in 2002.

Kx has been the global software leader for complex analytics on massive-scale streaming data for over two decades. The Kx technology is an established and trusted standard for trading, surveillance and research in financial services.

Kx Retail brings the power of this cutting edge technology, combined with true retail industry and analytical expertise to help businesses unlock the full value of their data through innovative but simple and executable solutions

About Us

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Kx offers an ‘In One Place’ solution to take control of your big data

Provides a single view of your business and customer data

Powerful analytics engine for intelligent data driven recommendations

Real-time reporting and decision making for instant execution

saves you time, money and drives improved ROI

Why Kx

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Low Cost – No big IT infrastructure projects. Kx can sit across existing databases and systems Integrated - Kx can plug in to all your data sources to create a single business view, providing access to all of your data in one place Fast - Quick an easy to operationalize within your business. Typical projects take under 3 months from scope sign-off to going live Flexible – Easy to adapt, integrate and change as new data and channels evolve

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EPOS Data

Real-time & Historical Data

Full Managed Data Quality

Extreme Performance

In-memory, Relational &

Columnar

Powerful Query Language

Integrates with and co-exists with other technologies with the ability to scale without requiring significant infrastructure development. Kx provides fast and flexible solutions built across multiple big-data sources, enabling real-time insight and decision making.

Kx allows processing and analysis of huge volumes of real-time and historical data, combining multiple sources and platforms

The Technology

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Connecting data and insight in one place

Interpreting complicated data and analysis is a science in itself. At Kx for Retail we take pride in our ability to provide solutions that can interpret the technical to the non-technical. Our solutions are flexible and crucially are designed to connect to and link multiple data sources and provide insight in one place

Rich Analytics & Visualizations Not only is Kx a powerful data management platform, it can provide advanced analytics and predictive modelling with machine learning capability on both real-time & historical data. The Kx platform also provides rich, customizable visualization through integrated HTML5 dashboards enabling self- service BI

Transforming Data

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Merchandising

Range optimization tools to create powerful insights

from basket data

Pricing & Promotion

Smart pricing algorithms and impact analysis built on

usable technology

Marketing Optimization

Harnessing customer data to build marketing platforms for

an omni-channel strategy

BI & Visualization

BI solutions with extreme performance and flexibility

bringing data to life

Supply Chain

Assortment and supply chain optimization through

real-time data insights

Customer Analytics

Powerful customer journey analytics unlocking value through

connected insights and data

Our Solutions

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• Kx can sit at any level of the tech stack

• Flexible to build on top of multiple types of databases including Teradata, SAS, Oracle etc

• Designed to connect insight and bring analytics in to one place

• Modular to build tools and user interfaces across any data source

• Powerful predictive analytics at every level with easy to interpret outputs

• Machine Learning capability to optimize models using real-time data feeds

• Powerful data blending technology for internal and external data

• Beautiful visualizations to bring data to life

• Can integrate with existing BI tools such as Tableau or Power BI

Analytics on One Place

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Solutions

Analytics Strategy

Kx Retail sits perfectly in the middle of software & solutions, advanced analytics and expert retail consultancy. Our working model can be scaled up from simply providing and implementing technology solutions, through to fully mobilized data scientists, dedicated to bringing your data to life.

Kx solutions are world renowned for our ultra-fast speed and extreme performance when it comes to building big data warehouses, analytical tools and rich visualizations. Our working model focusses on building these solutions but providing the expertise alongside to integrate in to businesses and build simple and usable tools.

Our Working Model

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Want to learn more?

Head Office

3 Canal Quay, Newry, BT35 6BP N. Ireland+44 (0)283 025 2242

London

Cannon Green Building, 1 Suffolk Lane, EC4R 0AY, UK +44 (0)207 337 1210

New York

45 Broadway, NY 10006 USA +1 (212) 447-6700

Singapore

55 Market Street, 048941 Singapore +65 6592 1960

Sydney

22 Pitt Street, NSW 2000 Australia +61 (02) 9236 5700

Toronto

31 Lakeshore Road EastSuite 201 Mississauga, Ontario L5G 4V5, Canada+1 (289) 329 0636

Tokyo

Sanno Park Tower, 2-11-1 Nagata-cho, Chiyoda-ku, 100-6162, Japan +81 (0)36 205 3494

www.kx.com

Damon Bryan SVP – Retail Analytics T: +44 (0)7900 363 790 E: dbryan@kx.com

Thomas Hill SVP – Retail Services T: +44 (0)7736 312 165 E: thill@kx.com

Peter Denby SVP – Retail Strategy T: +44 (0)7930 916 861 E: pdenby@kx.com

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