ParcelVision provides price quotations for shipping packages to and from a variety of locations. A quotation is generated for each courier, and the customer chooses the best option. High-quality historical data allows Parcelvision and its customers to quickly demonstrate ROI with the platform. In the retail industry, the cost of shipping has traditionally been averaged and calculated offline and reviewed and configured only periodically. Calculating averages, unfortunately, under-delivered in several respects, including allowing for little control over deliveries to users in remote areas, shipments that were outside of normal parameters, and any additional requirements and costs involved for those shipments.

With ParcelVision retailers can off er very accurate and up-to-date cost estimates to their shoppers. ParcelVision needed an approach that collected and maintained a detailed record of quotations, orders and tracking data. But the company also required strong, out-of-the-box temporal modelling capability.

In short, they needed to be able to say with authority whether or not their retailer clients could have saved money with their deliveries in the past had they used ParcelVision.