Case Study: Sheetz achieves faster, self‑service analytics and quicker business decisions with Hitachi Vantara's Pentaho Business Analytics

Sheetz Applies Pentaho To Put the Power of Business Analytics to Work

Sheetz, a fast‑growing family‑owned convenience store chain operating 400 locations, faced fragmented datamarts, competing reports, and heavy reliance on Excel/Access and IT for routine reporting. To establish a common self‑service analytics platform, Sheetz selected Hitachi Vantara and its Pentaho Business Analytics (Enterprise Edition) along with Pentaho Consulting to standardize reporting and enable business users to analyze data directly.

Hitachi Vantara implemented Pentaho with OLAP analysis, reporting, data governance, data stewards, and dedicated consulting, tied to a Teradata warehouse on VMware. The rollout delivered quick time to value (initial project in three months, first analysis model in one month), removed IT bottlenecks (marketing eliminated ~7 hours/week creating reports), supports ~30 regular users/80 logins analyzing ~2.1 TB (nearly 2.5 billion rows), and improved decision speed—results that earned Hitachi Vantara a Sheetz IT Vendor of the Year recognition.

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Nanette Pitman

Project Lead and IT Senior Analyst