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How GUESS Unified Data to Power AI-Driven Insights with Strategy One

Fueling Global Retail Operations with Data
GUESS is a $2.8B global lifestyle brand, serving customers across wholesale, retail, and eCommerce channels. With over 1,500 stores in 100+ countries, its customer base spans generations—from heritage loyalists to Gen Z trendsetters.
From recognizing market trends to assessing company performance, GUESS leverages customer analytics to drive efficiency, agility, and loyalty.
“Our long-standing partnership with Strategy offers our business a trusted source of information and helps us embrace innovations as new technologies shape the market. We leverage Strategy solutions across our entire organization to better understand customer needs and market trend insights.”
Bruce Yen
Vice President of Retail Applications, GUESS
Driving Co-Innovation with Strategic Partnerships
For over 25 years, GUESS has partnered with Strategy One to support every phase of its business intelligence evolution—consistently identifying new opportunities to improve access, alignment, and decision-making.
From standardizing business definitions and improving governance through the semantic layer, to inserting contextual, AI-powered insights into everyday apps with HyperIntelligence, GUESS uses Strategy to deliver data consistency across global teams.
This strong data foundation enables GUESS to adopt innovations like mobile apps, cloud analytics, and now GenAI bots—unlocking faster insights and supporting operational agility at scale.
Reshaping the Typical Analytics Lifecycle
GUESS and Strategy recognize that traditional BI workflows—while effective at scale—still introduce avoidable friction. Stakeholders define reporting needs through static specifications, analysts interpret that data, and developers build dashboards, often over a multi-week cycle. The process can be further delayed by inconsistent data, processing setbacks, and avoidable human errors.
It creates an incomplete analytics lifecycle that is unable to fulfill its potential of unlocking insights and driving growth across global operations.
Transforming Manual Reports into Conversational Intelligence
In collaboration with Strategy’s product and consulting teams, GUESS joined an early access GenAI program to explore new ways of engaging with data. This marked the next evolution of their enterprise data strategy, built on trust, governance, and the speed to adopt innovations at scale.
GUESS' review highlighted how the GenAI bots improved semantic alignment. Key definitions, metrics, and KPIs were consistent across departments and regions. They supported natural language interface—delivering accurate, in-depth analytics in seconds based on simple questions.
The GenAI assistants vastly accelerated development cycles, increased data accessibility, and delivered faster time to value for projects.
“Strategy AI is a very interesting tool for us—I think it’s a game changer. We’ve been exploring it to accelerate access to insights for our end users. These bots can be force-multipliers to help organizations ‘free’ their data.”
Bruce Yen
Vice President of Retail Applications, GUESS
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