The ‘Intelligent’ Focal Point MI9’s vision for 21st century retailing puts Business Intelligence and the Data Warehouse at the heart of your ERP system. This new and revolutionary design underscores the importance MI9 places on Business Intelligence as a driving force behind intelligent retailing. We have long recognized and demonstrated that to achieve overall superior business performance, every function critical to retailing must be impacted by Business Intelligence. Seeing is Believing The Intelligent Retail System delivers unprecedented views of the business - across merchandise, stores, customers, finance, and human resources - yielding deeper and broader access than any other system. The key is our MI9 SMART database. The MI9 SMART database is a vast repository of your business’ data. It sits underneath MI9 Business Intelligence where it records and archives every business transaction processed, including individual POS transactions. Never before, without IT intervention, have buyers, store managers, auditors, and marketing had access to this wealth of data. Simply Complex On the surface The Intelligent Retail System is amazingly simple which explains why it is so easy to adopt and use. But underneath it is brilliantly complex with a dynamic architectural framework, called MI9 Foundation, designed for ease of integration, implementation, and on-going system management. This framework includes eight service modules that support overall data management, maintenance, and distribution, systems management and integration, support of retail stores and mobile devices, and comprehensive integration to other applications. MI9 Foundation plays a major role in MI9’s ability to implement MI9 Business Intelligence, MI9 Merchant, and MI9 Store quickly. In addition to time-savings, we are also able to substantially lower IT costs through reduced oversight and support.