“Forum impressed us with their unique and unconventional approach…”
Forum Analytics provided a comprehensive real estate solution that included a sales forecasting model, national market optimization routine, and at-risk revenue model. The end deliverables provided us with a statistically sound basis for developing an accurate long range growth strategy for our Schlotzsky’s Deli concept in a matter of weeks versus months of comprehensive field analysis.
Forum impressed us with their unique and unconventional approach to sales forecasting and customized deployment tool that gives us flexibility in maintaining our data. We continue to work with Forum and really appreciate the level of service and support they provide.
-Mark Whittle, Vice President of Real Estate
FOCUS Brands, Inc.
“Forum has been a tremendous business partner…”
Forum deployed an enterprise web-mapping suite for our real estate development group that integrates several powerful forecasting and planning tools and helped us develop an optimized national growth strategy.Their SIMMS Online and VEXRAY tools enable our entire field team to collaborate effectively with each other and with our new operators on real estate related decisions.
Forum has been a tremendous business partner providing us easy to use web-tools and powerful sales models. They work closely with our home office and field staff to ensure a clear understanding of the analytics derived from their systems, and have worked to ensure our team is properly interpreting results as they apply them to critical decisions. We believe the solution Forum has developed for Ace represents the very best combination of art and science we can bring to our site selection process.
-John Venhuizen, Vice President of Business Development
Ace Hardware
“We greatly appreciate Forum’s level of customer service and attention to our needs.”
Forum Analytics developed a comprehensive real estate planning solution that helped us address both long range strategic planning and franchisee enrollment forecasting for proposed new schools. Their market optimization approach provided us an objective macro level perspective of our highest opportunity growth markets and their SIMMS Online tool has become an invaluable part of our entire real estate planning work flow. Their solution even incorporates features for our marketing team, allowing them to perform more targeted direct mail for our franchisees.
It’s great having a single web based solution shared across our entire organization, ensuring that all of us are working from the most current and relevant information available to make the best decisions for our franchisees. We greatly appreciate Forum’s level of customer service and attention to our needs. They’re a great vendor partner.
-Darin Harris, Chief Financial Officer
Primrose Schools
“This tool will be a tremendous asset”
Forum Analytics developed a model that has enabled us to more effectively analyze several critical system drivers: how many stores can go into a market, statistically valid criteria effecting site selection, how to best approach developing a market, and unit economic estimates for target market areas.
This tool will be a tremendous asset as we continue to grow our system, and will help us work with our franchisees to do so much more effectively.
-Russ Reynolds, President
Batteries Plus
“We continue to be impressed with Forum…”
Selecting a vendor to develop a real estate forecasting solution was an important part of our overall growth strategy at FASTSIGNS. We interviewed many firms and ultimately selected Forum Analytics to perform the work based on our comfort with their level of expertise, customer assessment, and ability to provide a complete solution customized to our exact specifications.
Their solution met all of our expectations and has provided us with market optimization results being used in multiple areas of our business to help us continue our successful growth. We continue to be impressed with Forum’s level of customer service, responsiveness, and attention to our needs.
-Larry Lane, President
FASTSIGNS International, Inc.
“Their solutions have really revolutionized the way we forecast, manage and plan…”
Forum Analytics developed and maintains our customized real estate software known as SIMMS. This system automates every critical decision making aspect of our real estate development process, and it’s completely customized to our needs. It contains regression and analog models that give us an accurate idea of new market potential across the country.
In addition to this work, Forum Analytics has developed a Market Optimization program that allows us to assess our entire national real estate landscape and prioritize our future development efforts. This program helped us identify new potential markets for our business that we may never have otherwise found. Their solutions have really revolutionized the way we forecast, manage, and plan our business development.
-Steve Titus, Vice President and General Manager
Sears Dealer Stores
“Forum Analytics…made us feel like true partners every step of the way”
As a regional restaurant firm with an aggressive national growth strategy we felt that site selection needed to be a core competency of our franchise development group. We evaluated many of the available site selection tools, and felt that Forum Analytics was not only the best solution from the standpoint of features and functionality, but provided a level of service that made us feel like true partners every step of the way.
-Steve Burt, Chief Financial Officer
Gatti’s Pizza
“…their customer service is in a league of its own.”
We selected Forum Analytics over a number of other vendors and could not be more pleased with our decision. They provided us with a nationwide strategic planning blueprint for our unit expansion using their market optimization routines and have also deployed an outstanding Google-based mapping, modeling, and reporting tool called SIMMS Online for our day to day site planning and analysis functions.
Their modeling was thorough, their solution is incredibly powerful yet easy to use from any place I have web access, and their customer service is in a league of its own. It’s been a true pleasure working with a vendor partner that seems to really care about the quality of service that they provide and the relationship they form with us.
-Dick Ward, Real Estate Manager
Honey Baked Ham
“…a simple but powerful tool”
Everything has worked out really great. It’s so nice having a resource like SIMMS Online for our real estate and franchise planning efforts. It provides us a simple but powerful tool that allows all of our key decision makers to collaborate online and work with the most relevant information specific to our unique business model. I can’t wait to sing Forum’s praises at the IFA.
-Charles Watson, Vice President, Franchise Development
Tropical Smoothie Franchise Development Corporation