ABSTRACT: 

A method for automatically determining one or more cross customer metrics from a cross customer store for cross customer analytics is provided. The method includes the steps of: 

(i) automatically standardizing dimensions associated with the one or more customers to create one or more cross customer metrics; 

(ii) automatically determining incremental data from one or more customer specific stores by tracking (a) a time stamp of a last pull time (T) for customer data stored in the one or more customer specific stores, and (b) a number of items involved (I); 

(iii) automatically updating the one or more cross customer metrics in the cross customer store with the incremental data; and 

(iv) automatically comparing the one or more cross customer metrics of a customer with one or more peer groups created at run time based on customer selected values for one or more parameters.