Case Study: Covanta achieves trusted, consistent data quality and 10%+ annual maintenance savings with Talend Data Fabric

Ensuring data trust to drive business outcomes

Covanta is a sustainable waste‑to‑energy and environmental services company operating 41 modern facilities in North America and Europe, converting about 21 million tons of waste annually to power over 1 million homes and recycling 500,000 tons of metal. Facing complex operations, Covanta needed to optimize efficiency while ensuring worker safety, maximizing uptime, and controlling costs — a challenge that required trusted, consistent data across the business.

To address this, Covanta partnered with Talend and deployed Talend Data Fabric (including Data Catalog, Data Stewardship, and Real‑Time Big Data integration) to build a data supply‑chain management solution and the Covanta Data Hub in under four months. The initiative delivered guaranteed, consistent data quality and a shared business/IT understanding, enabled near‑real‑time integration and better contract negotiation, and is driving at least 10% annual savings on maintenance activities.

Covanta

Charles Link

Head of Data and Analytics