This document discusses how Power Touché, a Microsoft Business Intelligence product, can help analyze operational and transactional data from a point-of-sale system for a food and beverage business. It provides examples of how Power Touché can generate interactive reports and visualizations to analyze factors like best selling items, impact of external variables on sales, and compare performance across locations and time periods. The document walks through a case study analyzing an unusual spike in covers one month to determine if discounts or external factors affected revenue. It concludes that Power Touché can help uncover business issues by linking structured operational data with unstructured external data without affecting the underlying IT systems.