Case Study: Picard Caters achieves faster supply-chain insights and 4:1 data reduction with Pure Storage FlashArray

Picard Caters to Data Hungry Users with Pure Storage FlashArray

Picard, France’s leading frozen food retailer with 4,500 employees and 920 shops (plus stores in Italy, Belgium and Sweden), was choking on the daily flood of POS data feeding its SAP ERP and BI systems. Its clustered Oracle SAN running on an HDD-based 3PAR array created a performance barrier that degraded user experience, slowed supply-chain insight and prevented ERP acceleration.

Picard replaced the legacy array with Pure Storage FlashArray 420, gaining 4:1 data reduction, a 5x footprint cut (arrays use ~30% of the previous space), and near-instant deployment (each array installed in half a day; basic admin in under an hour). The result was dramatically faster BI and supply-chain responsiveness, zero help-desk calls for performance, and confidence to migrate more enterprise apps onto FlashArray.

Picard Caters

Ismael Simoes

CTO