Case Study: McCain Foods achieves real-time global data access and a 50% reduction in downtime with Teradata

McCain Foods - Customer Case Study

McCain Foods, the world’s largest maker of frozen potato specialties with 20,000 employees, 50 production facilities and over CDN $6 billion in annual sales, faced an explosion of data as it grew and could not deliver timely, usable information to its global workforce. The company needed a flexible data warehouse that would transform disparate sources into clear, actionable data for business intelligence, forecasting and analytics to drive higher sales, margins and customer penetration.

Teradata and IBM implemented a Teradata Enterprise Data Warehouse fed in real time by IBM InfoSphere DataStage, with Teradata Professional Services handling implementation. The solution delivered 24/7 access to transformed data, reduced nightly ETL calls by more than 80% and cut downtime by about 50%, empowering users with self-service insights, boosting productivity and minimizing IT overhead.

McCain Foods

Roman Coba

CIO, McCain Foods