JDS is please to offer its proprietary "PowerReporter" data mining system. PowerReporter offers a built in "business intelligence" system that allows users to query their database and slice, dice and create their own reports on all types of customer and enterprise metrics. Unlike many systems that only contain current year data the WinRetail database stores many years of history. This structured data warehouse allows the comparison of many key business management metrics across many levels of the merchandising hierarchy, across all or combinations of store locations and based on other user defined attributes!

"We collect so much data in our system. The trick was to find an easy to use, easy to format way to get at all of that information. We talked to JDS and they taught us how to use Power Reporter, the built in 'On Demand' data query and report creation tool that is part of our WinRetail system. Using a simple, easy to master 'drag and drop' technique we create virtually any report we need, in any format we need whenever we need it! We can create reports that give us the tools to manage our business OUR way. Once we create a report, we memorize it and it is there for us whenever we need to get at it. If our needs change, we go in, change the report, memorize the new format and we are again managing our business our way. We create the reports and then filter or sort the data as needed. We are in touch with our business 100% of the time. We make decisions knowing that the information we use as a basis of those decisions is timely, accurate, and reliable."