IT Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence on the IT channel
Stock in the Channel generates 75GB of data per day in relation to stock, trade and retail prices and sales rates. The data is combined with product categories and detailed product attributes to allow you to hone in on what you are interested in.
It is presented both in pivot tables and as the raw data itself in spreadsheets.
Primarily this is available in the UK market only but our model is being internationalised to the USA, Canada and France.
Stock in the Channel has worked closely with IDC in Boston, USA on this project. In the UK we are GFK’s largest supplier of sell out data in the UK and have been for 3 years.
Sales + Price Focus
Competitive intelligence to IT vendors who need to keep abreast of competitive pricing and sales rates in the UK. Great for opportunity spotting, catching trends as they happen, and naturally, for an overall view of what is happening in the market. Reports are produced weekly – published every Monday – covering up to close of business Fridays information.
The reports are provided on a category by category basis. On request we will produce sample files with no obligation. In some categories we cover nearly all sales made – in others – particularly where resellers or end users buy directly from the brands – we have less information. Our team will tell you the percentage of total market sales we cover in your requested category – which will indicate the validity of our data.
Stock Focus
Daily stock reports are an intrinsic part of our service portfolio. These are typically used to allow resellers to accurately sell virtual stock from distribution – however as a vendor in the IT market availability is crucial in sales. Our service can help you monitor this.
Custom Reporting
Fundamentally our team are technicians, mathematicians and statisticians – rather than market researchers. Confidence intervals – variance analysis - matching similar distributions for predictive models and more are part of our skill set. It is our aim to produce a Business intelligence portal for brands that includes statistical and mathematical models and has a strong predictive element. Get in touch to find out more about our plans in this area.
Higher level consultancy
If you are looking for data interpretation and consultancy based on both qualitative and quantitative analysis we defer to our partners IDC. Contact us for an introduction.
Data Provided
Currently we are providing the data in pivot tables compiled on a weekly basis. Contact us to get a sample. Broadly the data we are supplying includes
- Approx Cost prices
- Retail Sale price
- Part no
- Brand
- Category
- Specs
- Attributes
- Attribute range
- UNSPSC
- EAN
- Stock in the channel
- Sales units in period