Sky IT Group
Integrating Retail POS, ERP, & CRM Data into Actionable Insights

In the retail industry, data represents power, which is the key to ensuring that shelves are stocked and merchandise is moving. Assisting customers in every aspect of aligning IT with the business is Sky IT Group, which is an IT solution provider focusing on its customers’ bottom-line business results by driving technology optimization through data.

Located in New York City, Sky IT helps businesses maximize their IT investments by leveraging their data into meaningful business insights for improved business decisions. Jay Hakami, President and CEO of Sky IT Group, formed the company with the intent to provide distributors and retailers with in-depth reporting and analytics through in-house and SaaS reporting, business intelligence, and data warehousing solutions.

The need to receive timely, accurate information representing trends and buying behavior provides for better decision making based on proactive collaboration within the organization as well as with suppliers and buyers. With SKYPAD SaaS offerings, Sky IT Group collects data from multiple data sources with diverse protocols.

Once cleansed that data is uploaded to dashboard and allows the user to view sales performance by any combination of product attributes, time dimension and geographic location. Retailers are also taking advantage of SKYPAD CRM to track individual consumer purchases, as recorded by their POS register, to enable more pin-pointed target marketing campaigns not only against a consumer segment but directly at the individual based on their buying behavior.

The cloud-based platform integrates retail product activity data with data from the enterprise resource planning (ERP), e-commerce, WMS, and planning systems, including product shipments, available-to-sell, on-order, plan, images, and product and store location attributes. Sky IT Group’s team of data architects, analysts, and account managers validate and deploy this data into customized SKYPAD RETAIL applications for “C” level executives, sales, marketing, and merchandisers to react and take action not only based on their “gut feel” but on facts and numeric trends.

“SKYPAD delivers comprehensive data collection, cleansing, and very detailed SaaS reporting solutions that help organizations plan for the right product at the right place for right consumer all of which allows businesses to profitably propel forward,” says Jay Hakami. Sky IT serves clients of all types and sizes from small retail firms to Fortune2000 with specific expertise in the retail sector.

Among its current wholesale and retail consumer product companies are: Prada, Tory Burch, Theory, Marc Jacobs, and Giorgio Armani, Michael Kors, Yankee Candle, Jones NY, and a host of other recognizable brands.

The company’s consultancy services and solutions empower planners, The need to receive timely, accurate information representing trends and buying behavior provides for better decision making based on proactive collaboration within the organization as well as with suppliers and buyers. With SKYPAD SaaS offerings, Sky IT Group collects data from multiple data sources with diverse protocols.

Sky IT Group has consultants experienced in defining, designing, and deploying IT solutions that address business challenges. In addition to Sky IT Group’s focus on the retail and distribution marketplace with SaaS and in-house for reporting and analytics, the company has also partnered with IBM and HP from the tech industry to provide software and hardware services nationwide for a variety of businesses.

Sky IT’s expertise, industry experience, and proven methodology have so far ensured that its customers increase profitability by making business decisions that are based on facts, figures and trends in the marketplace. By having these insights they will realize the maximum return on their investments. The firm believes it can continue to serve clients by keeping this as its prime goal.