Case Study: Eastman Chemical Company achieves near-real-time pricing insights with Microsoft SQL Server 2014

Near-Real-Time Pricing Information Helps Employees Make Better Decisions

Eastman Chemical Company, a global specialty chemical manufacturer, needed to give its pricing organization faster access to updated pricing data to improve decision-making on competitive customer requests. Their existing manual processes were slow and error-prone, creating a barrier for employees who needed near-real-time information to maximize sales margins. Microsoft provided a solution using SQL Server 2014 Enterprise.

By implementing Microsoft SQL Server 2014 with its In-memory Columnstore feature, the company dramatically improved data access and processing speeds. Queries that once took minutes were returned in milliseconds, giving employees near-instantaneous pricing data. This resulted in better, faster decision-making, improved employee productivity, and a significantly simplified data-updating process for IT staff, freeing developers to focus on new projects.

Eastman Chemical Company

Marshall Couch

Systems Analyst