Case Study: Cargill achieves real-time energy supply-chain analytics and rapid trading-tool delivery with TIBCO Software

Cargill Masters the Energy Supply Chain with TIBCO Spotfire and ZEMA

Cargill’s Energy, Transportation, and Metals division faced a classic energy-industry problem: massive, diverse datasets and slow, siloed analytics that hindered fast responses to market events and limited cross‑team decision-making. Building solutions internally wasn’t ideal, so Cargill sought a strategic partner to speed data collection, normalization, and analysis across its global supply chain.

Cargill partnered with ZE PowerGroup and TIBCO, embedding TIBCO Spotfire in ZE’s ZEMA data-management suite to create self‑service analytics and a crude‑refinery research dashboard that replaced a 300,000‑row spreadsheet. The initiative cut trading‑tool development from months to days (6 months to 3 days), reduced data mashup time from weeks to near real‑time (70 sources, 5 TB available), delivered clean master data, and improved global collaboration—enabling faster, more informed decisions across trading, projects, credit risk, and marketing.

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Geoffrey Lakings

Market Technology Analyst