Articles from Impact Analytics

New funding supports expansion of the only AI-native, end-to-end platform for pricing, merchandising and supply chain, with a new board appointment from Blue Cloud Ventures and participation from Sageview Capital and Vistara Growth

NEW YORK, April 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Impact Analytics, a leader in end-to-end AI-native planning, merchandising, and inventory solutions, is proud to announce its partnership with Starboard Group, the world’s leading vacation retail curator. Starboard will leverage the cutting-edge PlanSmart, AssortSmart, and InventorySmart solutions from Impact Analytics to optimize inventory productivity and enhance customer satisfaction across their global fleet of cruise ships and resort shops. The partnership emerged from a collaborative technology selection process led by enVista, a leading supply chain consulting provider.

Australian Jewelry Brand to Leverage AI-Driven Tools to Support its Global Expansion

Leading-edge Technology Prepares Students with Advanced Skills in Merchandise Planning

Specialty retailer will implement GenAI-native MondaySmart(®) from Impact Analytics to ensure product availability matches customer demand

Impact Analytics™ Study Reveals Surge in Healthy Food Sales, with Midwest States Seeing the Most Significant Impact

The AI-Powered Planning and Pricing Solution for Retailers Recognized as a Representative Vendor

90-Store New Zealand-Based Home Goods and Sporting Goods Retailer Will Use the AI-Merchandising & Supply Chain Platform to Enhance Forecasting, Inventory Management and More

Maggie Williams Dryden Joins the Executive Team as Vice President and Global Head of Marketing to Lead a Newly Created Group of Marketing and Business Development Leaders With Deep Retail, AI, and Supply Chain Expertise

Overall Smaller Discounts Seen on Essentials with Bigger Discounts on Higher Value Categories

Celebrating the bold leaders who disrupt markets, revolutionize industries and transform lives

Report from Impact Analytics Cites the Effect Diminishing Size Curves Have on Retail Margins, Using Data from Flagships on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, the Epicenter for Non-Diabetic Use of GLP-1 Drugs

Impact Analytics™, provider of the industry’s most innovative retail, grocery, CPG and supply chain-focused planning and merchandising software suite—complete, fully integrated and built with native AI—today announced it has closed $40 million in growth financing. This funding round was led by Sageview Capital with additional support from long-time partner Vistara Growth. As part of this transaction, Jeff Klemens, Partner at Sageview Capital, and Prashanth Palakurthi, Senior Advisor at Sageview Capital and founder and former CEO of Reflexis Systems, will join the company’s board of directors.

Impact Analytics™, a leading provider of AI-based SaaS planning solutions for retail, grocery, consumer packaged goods and supply chain enterprises, has been recognized by retailers as a top vendor in several categories of the RIS News 2024 Retail Software LeaderBoard, a trusted retail software comparison report focused on Customer Satisfaction. Most notably, the company was the top Targeted Solution Vendor and included in the widely regarded LeaderBoard Top 20 list.

Impact Analytics™, a leading provider of AI-based SaaS planning solutions for retail, grocery, consumer packaged goods, and supply chain enterprises, today announced it has made available on the Google Cloud Marketplace its entire merchandising suite of financial planning, assortment optimization, and full-lifecycle pricing, promotion, and markdown/clearance solutions. At the same time, the company announced it will utilize Google Cloud generative AI capabilities, enabling it to accelerate its own GenAI innovation, and that it has joined the Google Cloud partnership program.

New research by Impact Analytics looks at correlations between Prime Day promotions and Black Friday deals on the horizon this holiday season