Posted
about 1 year
ago
by
Joannes Vermorel
Data analytics is an ubiquitous challenge. Whenever there is business, there are data - and wherever data are, Kirix Strata is going to bring them to you.
But Kirix Strata can do much more than that. At Lokad, we have been quite impressed
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by the amount things that were easy to achieve with Kirix Strata even when the product was still in beta. Now that Kirix Strata is completely ready for production, it's even better.
Ever felt the need to organize your business data for strategic thinking? but never done it because it was just too complicated. If so, Kirix is definitively a solution for you.
Yet, one minor feature was lacking from Kirix Strata though: forecasting. We are very proud to announce that Lokad has become the first Strata extension that takes advantage of Strata’s web scripting capabilities in order to bring advanced forecasting to this great product.
The Kirix team has just released an excellent video that demonstrates how Strata/Lokad works. Enjoy the show!
(And here’s an embeddable YouTube version) [Less]
Posted
about 1 year
ago
by
Joannes Vermorel
Since the launch of the Developer's corner, I have noticed that Lokad was lacking some high level documentation that would rather address Why? questions as opposed addressing How to? questions.
Thus, I have summarized in the newly published
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Programmer's guide for the Time Series API a couple of answers to the questions that get frequently asked by our partners. If anything is missing, just ask. [Less]
Posted
about 1 year
ago
by
Joannes Vermorel
Lokad delivers an advance forecasting technology, but for those who may just needing simple stuff, we have published a short guide about forecasting in Excel.
It is meant to be as simple as possible, and show what can be done with Excel in
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terms of forecasting - using linear regression or exponential fitting, through trendlines or the excel analysis toolpack (ATP).
It should allow small businesses, retailers or manufacturers, to easily perform a basic forecast of sales and demand.
It also gives useful advices about how to optimally use Excel, use comments and name your files and worksheets. [Less]
Posted
about 1 year
ago
by
Joannes Vermorel
Last week, Lokad has been taking part in the Seedcamp day in Paris. Although, this day was essentially a meeting place for founders and VCs, Lokad isn't really actively seeking investors at this point. For us, Seedcamp was the opportunity to meet a
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lot of inspiring and experienced entrepreneurs.
Press was here too, in particular,
Muke Butcher from TechCrunch
Christophe Dutheil from vnuet.
Some photos of the event are available on Flickr. The Lokad team being visible on
here,
here, and here.
Special thanks to the Microsoft guys (in particular Julien Codorniou) for hosting this event. [Less]
Posted
about 1 year
ago
by
Joannes Vermorel
Lokad Safety Stock Calculator v1.1 has been released. This release comes with 6 newly supported applications
QuickBooks
Shop-Script
CS-Cart
Avactis
LiveCart
SoftSlate
A few bugs have also been fixed. If your favorite application is still missing from the list, just contact us.
Posted
about 1 year
ago
by
Joannes Vermorel
Last Wednesday has been a very busy day. In particular, Bertrand Delanoë, current mayor of Paris (most probable candidate to become President of France for the next elections) has been visiting Lokad.
Thanks to the talent of Michel
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Vaniglia, founder at 7 Highlights Street (video on demand for classical movies), we have a a video of this event.
Bertrand DELANOË visits Lokad and a few other companies, at the startup incubator of TELECOM ParisTech.
Joannes Vermorel, founder at Lokad, who appears in the first minute of the video, is interviewed by Bertrand Delanoë about the benefits that could be brought by Lokad to the city of Paris. Optimizing staff levels of the various administrative services to better address the needs of the inhabitants of Paris is discussed. [Less]
Posted
about 1 year
ago
by
Joannes Vermorel
Lokad Safety Stock Calculator v1.0 has been released. Beside having a new product icon (compared to the beta), this release supports many 3rd party applications, including JFire, Sage, Magento, X-Cart, PrestaShop, ViArt, WebERP that were previously unsupported. If your favorite application is still missing from the list, just contact us.
Posted
about 1 year
ago
by
Joannes Vermorel
The first beta of Lokad Safety Stock Calculator has 3 buttons, namely Retrieve, Upload and Download as you can see in the screenshot below.
In order to do a complete refresh of the report, the user has to go through 4 successive
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operations:
Click Retrieve.
Click Upload.
Wait! Don't forget, it's an important step.
Click Download.
Somehow this design is really cumbersome, because those 4 operations are just mundane tasks aiming for a unique purpose: getting the latest version of the report.
Thus, we have decided to upgrade the application, by actually removing two buttons. Here is the latest screenshot of the application.
With this design, the user just has to click once on Refresh and LSSC will perform the 4 operations mentioned here above on its own (with a wait time set to 1h, which should be fine for most users).
Then, since all the user wants is an up-to-date report, the question becomes:
Can't we get rid of this last button? Well, sort of.
It seems difficult to actually get rid of this Refresh button, yet, what we can do is to schedule background refresh operations. Instead of getting rid of the Refresh button, we would get rid of the need to actually click it once an auto-refresh schedule has been setup.
Auto-refresh is part of our mid-term plans, stay tuned. [Less]
Posted
about 1 year
ago
by
Joannes Vermorel
We have just added a Developer's section. Lokad has been designed to be easily integrated into any 3rd party application right from the start. Yet, the information targeting developers was somehow spread into many different sections of our website. Adding a Developers section was the obvious solution to this problem.
Posted
about 1 year
ago
by
Joannes Vermorel
We have just released the first beta of Lokad Safety Stock Calculator (LSSC). This application is best suited for retailers and manufacturers who need to optimize their inventory levels. As announced previously, LSSC provides report points
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optimization and stock coverage analysis.
Compared to Lokad Desktop Sales Forecasting, LSSC comes as significant upgrade
True business-oriented report that includes stocks on hand, suppliers, lead times, service levels ... in addition to the raw sales forecasts.
Incremental inventory data retrieval and incremental sales data upload toward Lokad. Performances get greatly improved for recurrent usage.
Build-in customization framework. LSSC comes bundled with LSSC Editor, a GUI tool that let you design custom inventory connectors for LSSC.
As LSSC gets out of beta, Lokad Desktop Sales Forecasting will be put in maintenance mode, since this application brings no additional benefits compared to LSSC. [Less]
