Archive for April, 2010

Garbage in, garbage out

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010, by
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Enter incorrect or inadequate data and create misleading analyses: It seems obvious that an analysis is never better than the data it is created from…

ABC Analyzer gives the user (you!) the possibility to do a fantastic array of various different analyses that each can highlight relevant aspects of your business. The software can respond to some of the errors that imported data can hold – like dates not formatted correctly, numbers with different decimal and thousand separators. When ABC Analyzer identifies such an error it will report it and optionally let you ignore them.

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Get Help & Support

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010, by
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In the newest version of ABC Analyzer we have updated the “Help & Support” menu, accessible from the top menu bar. The “Help & Support” menu contains three sub menus: “Learning Center and Support”, “Version” and “About”.

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Changes in ABC Analyzer 4.2.0

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010, by
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ABC Analyzer 4.2.0 is scheduled for release on May 18th 2010.

This release resolves many issues regarding various aspects of the program including but not limited to:

  • Error occurring when interacting with the user interface while calculating or updating views (Ref.: 1141, 1144).

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“100% customer satisfaction” & “Customer is King”

Thursday, April 15th, 2010, by
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Statements like these are excellent for marketing but do they help operations?

In my experience, they have become part of most retailers’ and wholesalers’ identity. They help to create environments with extreme focus on doing everything possible to satisfy the customers, a behaviour that is causing some problems in operations.


At ABC Softwork, I work with companies who typically manage thousands of SKU’s and customers. I often interact with (more…)

Templates – a new distribution feature

Thursday, April 15th, 2010, by
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It is now possible to save setups as templates in ABC Analyzer.

So what is a template? Basically, it ‘s an ABC project without the data.

Why use templates? Let’s say you’ve loaded data, made filters, formulas and categorizations, and you want to share (more…)