Case Study: Land O’Lakes achieves faster data-driven discoveries and greater operational efficiency with Microsoft Power BI

Land O' Lakes: Cultivating connections and greater efficiency using data, from farm to table

Land O’Lakes, a $13 billion, 10,000-employee agricultural cooperative, needed better collaboration, mobile access, and faster analytics to support a dispersed field workforce and closer work with farmers. To address this, the company adopted Microsoft Office 365 and Surface Pro devices and deployed Microsoft Power BI for self-service data analysis alongside Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Yammer and Office 365 security features.

Using Microsoft Power BI and the broader Office 365 platform, Land O’Lakes gave employees anytime, anywhere access to email, documents, and analytics—putting crop yields, satellite imagery, and production data in the hands of field teams. The deployment improved collaboration and productivity, reduced security incident costs with Advanced Threat Protection, and cut legal e-discovery expenses by hundreds of thousands of dollars while accelerating data-driven decisions.

Land O’Lakes

Tony Taylor

Senior Director of Infrastructure and Security