The document describes new and improved features for QuickTABS, a software tool that allows users to analyze syndicated data. The key new features include: enabling automatic syncing of filters and layouts across reports and time periods; adding summary and graphing functions to reports; and including heat map conditional formatting and contextual definitions. These new features are aimed at improving navigation, visualization, and understanding of analysis within the QuickTABS interface.

1. New and Improved Features
February 20, 2013

2. QuickTABS® Overview
QuickTABS® allows you and your organization to accurately, quickly and easily:
• Navigate syndicated data to identify opportunities and risks to growth
• Respond to retailer requests and questions
• Identify key business drivers.
Features and Benefits:
 Customized Database, Characteristics, and Attributes: Design and built from SKU level up to match
clients needs and how categories are marketed, shopped and merchandised.
 Flexible, Simple, and Accessible: Excel®-base analytical tool that is stored on the users PC and provides
instantaneous access to your data to your entire organization. No internet or license required…
 Multiple Data Source Integration: Multiple data sources can be integrated and accessed for complete analytical
reporting in ONE analytical tool.
 Multiple Hierarchy Support: Development and maintenance of multiple hierarchies for retail specific analytics.
Your ONE source for all your retailer specific analytics.
 Progressive Drilling: Quickly drill from Sales, Trends and Momentum into specific underlying drivers with proprietary
reports and measures to better understand SKU, Brand, Segment and Category Productivity.
 Distribution-based analytics: Our proprietary metrics and tools such as Sales Momentum, Sales
Decomposition, and Productivity are based on distribution which drives 55% of all purchase decisions.
2

3. New and Improved Features
3.0
Enable Sync
3.0
Summary/Graphs
3.0
Conditional Formatting
3.0
Custom Reports
3.0
Contextual Definitions
3

4. Summary of New and Improved Features
Enable Sync Custom Reports
Contextual
Definitions
Conditional
Formatting
4

5. Enabling Automatically Syncs Filters and Layouts across all Reports and Time Periods
U Sales
Syncs Changing Reports
$ Sales $ Momentum U Momentum Productivity Growth
View Month View Half View Year Ranking Sales Decomp
Syncs when Changing Time Periods
View Quarter Note: Replaces Global Tile Change
5

6. Summary Function
Builds a clean, summarized
report displaying only top
brands or manufacturers
while rolling up remainder
into ALL OTHER
Graphing Function*
Produces a pre-defined graph
directly in QuickTABS® based
on either $ Sales, U Sales, $
Momentum, or Growth
*Replaces QuickGraph
6

7. Heat Map Conditional Formatting
Under-Performing Over-Performing
Productivity heat mapping and highlighting allows you to instantly spot
underperformers and focus on key areas of growth or decline.
7

8. Generates Custom Layouts, Reports and Scorecards directly in QuickTABS®, discuss with your TABS
Consultant what it takes to add this feature in directly to the standard suite reports
No need to search through glossaries anymore to learn what measures mean. Simply hover over the
field name and the definition will pop up on the screen.
8