BANGALORE, India, July 21 /PRNewswire/ --     Manthan Systems, a leading provider of retail analytics and
decision-making solutions, today unveiled the latest edition of its retail
performance management solution - ARC 5.8. Positioned to deliver the latest
in advanced retail decision-making capability, ARC 5.8 is expected to
transform the way retailers use analytics for competitive advantage.

Manthan's CEO Mr. Atul Jalan said, "I'm confident in saying that today
there is no solution more comprehensive in its capabilities for retail
decision-making than ARC 5.8. With this version, we have definitively stepped
into a leadership position in the retail business intelligence space. The
superior product is an outcome of Manthan's mission to be the 'Chief
Analytics Officer' of retail and consumer good organizations."

Explaining what's new in ARC, Manthan's Chief Technology Officer, Mr.
Vikas Gupta explains, "Retailers can expect cutting edge performance
management capabilities like superior dashboarding, scorecarding and
benchmarking that can transform decision-making from reporting to 'actionable
analytics'. With seamless mobile integration, ARC delivers analytics
'on-the-go' to store and operations executives. With a mission to drive
pervasive adoption of business intelligence across the retail organization,
ARC 5.8 simplifies the powerful underlying technology to give users a rich
and easy-to-use analytic front end."

Packed with many innovative features and applications, ARC 5.8 may just
be the most comprehensive solution available to retailer today. Mr. Gupta
goes on to say, "With capabilities to expand the decision making realm beyond
the enterprise, ARC 5.8 features external market and competition data
integration to a retailer's own data sources. With this, merchandise planners
can benchmark their product performance with that of other markets and
regions, in addition to profiling their store-specific assortments better."

With a large set of role-based analytics applications built-in, ARC 5.8
enables decision-making for every role in the organization. Applications like
assortment planning, customer analytics, market basket analytics, category
lifecycle analysis, store productivity and benchmarking, loss prevention,
planning & budgeting extends the capabilities of retail decision-makers in
merchandising, marketing or store operations to take not just a decision, but
the 'optimal decision'.

About Manthan Systems

Manthan is a producer and marketer of analytic solutions for the entire
ecosystem of decision-making in retail and consumer goods industries. Manthan
understands retail business practices, decision making needs, and their
technology underpinnings; having worked with a wide range of retailers and
consumer goods companies including Woolworths Germany Haggen Supermarkets
Gianfranco Ferre, Supervalu, The Game Stores Group Loblaws, Castorama Ecco
Sko. McDonalds and Haggar Clothing Co. For more information about Manthan
Systems please visit http://www.manthansystems.com.

Ajith Nayar,
    Marketing Manager,
    Manthan Software Services Pvt Ltd.,
    No. 40/4, Lavelle Road,
    Banaglore - 560001,
    India,
    media.contact@manthansystems.com ,
    Ph No. +91-80-2299-0585,
    Fax No. +91-80-2299-0586.