CA+ Business Intelligence - Boosting retail and F&B performance at Airports


Business Intelligence (BI) is all about bringing insight to data and enabling business decisions to be taken in the glow of meaningful analysis.

CA+’s BI module allows an airport to analyse and assess the meaning of the retail and F&B data generated by concessionaires within their airport so as to understand the retail sales patterns and influence the retail operations towards growth and greater profitability.

By bringing together retail sales data at a transaction level and combining this with passenger numbers data and flight information from the airport’s Data Room systems, as well as people counting data, airports are able to visualise performance through role based dashboards and key performance indicators.

Airports can:
  • monitor sales/passenger on different flights, routes or carriers to assist them in bench-marking performance, route development, planning and budgeting
  • identify conversion rates of passengers flying on particular routes allowing them to undertake specific tactics and promotions to boost these rates
  • monitor average basket size and spend of customers in different shops, zones of the terminal, and terminals
  • assess market share by category and shop (e.g. jewellery and watches)
  • monitor spend and revenue in different zones of a terminal or different terminals
  • monitor sales landside as well as air-side, to more fully support landside sales initiatives
  • monitor sales and revenue trends over different time lines and times of the day
  • assess the impact of promotions and digital advertising by seeing how these promotions have lead to greater sales per pax, average basket sizes during the period of the promotion
  • influence gate allocations to assist in flowing passengers on particular flights past specific zones in a terminal
  • adjust retail sales mix of shop categories to reflect retail patterns once these are better understood
  • improve negotiations with concessionaires as these can be supported by greater insight into the retail performance
  • benchmark concessionaires against other operations in their same category, zone of the terminal, etc.

This BI allows airports to work with concessionaires to boost their performance for the benefit of both the concessionaire and the airport.

The CA+ BI module is role based, allowing users to be allocated to roles whereupon they will see only the data they are authorised to see as well as the analysis of that data they are allowed to have access to in that role. Users will then be able to configure their dashboards to visualise the data in the manner they require, picking from ready-made analysis components through an intuitive menu selection process. CA+ BI module provides extensive drill-down capabilities to mine the data to different levels and filtering that can be set by end-users without technical skills.

Technical users at the airport may also be provided with the BI Builder which will allow them to create new analysis components and queries that they can then be deployed to their users. This addresses the needs of ad-hoc reporting and increases the independence from the vendor.

The CA+ BI dashboard is able to be centrally managed and configured according to the different roles in each airport allowing users to modify data and graphs and the drill-down parameters that suit their business needs. At the same time the dashboards can be locked down so as to control which users are able to personalise the analysis.

Authorised users are able to access the CA+ BI platform through all leading browsers: Apple’s iPad® and iPhone® and Android® Smartphones.

CA+ is an open system that allows airports to utilise their own preferred corporate BI solution to access the CA+ Data Warehouse as its data source.

Read more about Concessionaire Analyzer+ or access the Concessionaire Analyzer Fact Sheet and Case Study - Malta International Airport