Case Study: Walter Surface Technologies saves 13,000+ hours with Sigma Computing

How This Global Manufacturer Ditched Cognos and Reclaimed 13K Hours with Sigma

Walter Surface Technologies, a global industrial manufacturer, was struggling with fragmented data across multiple ERPs after a series of acquisitions. Using legacy Cognos reporting, sales reps and internal teams spent too much time reconciling spreadsheets, waiting on static reports, and manually handling custom requests, with no trusted single source of truth for performance data.

Sigma Computing, alongside Snowflake, replaced Cognos and Power BI with a modern analytics platform that gave 150+ sales reps self-serve access to daily refreshed dashboards and input tables for easy updates. The result was nearly 13,000 hours saved, acquisition data integrated in days instead of months, and full visibility into POS, Salesforce, and top-line revenue across the business.

Walter Surface Technologies

Ansley Coelho

Manager of Corporate Development