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Drive operational savings, streamlinedata collection and analysis, improvebusiness processes, and increase data-driven decision-making. Until then, our client’s success was rightlyfocused on scaling operations. But this fastpace of growth, coupled with acquisitionsof other businesses, led to an extremelymuddled IT environment. When SoftServe’sexperts first reviewed it, they found a mixof various systems, out-of-date ERP, andcustomized-beyond-upgrade applicationsthat governed critical functions. Technology was an essential partof the rapid growth of one of thefastest-growing producers of fruitsand vegetables in North America. Ourclient enjoyed tremendous success byinnovating cutting-edge genetic processesand cultivars within their high-techproduction facilities. This strategy helpedthem go from a few hundred milliondollars in revenue to a multi-billion-dollaragriculture production and distributionenterprise in only a few years. Now thecompany has turned to informationtechnology to drive their next phase ofgrowth and help make them a $10B+ brand. The mash-up of programs and systems ledto days of manual data entry in mammothspreadsheets, simply to provide operationalbusiness reports—which were obsolete bythe time they were published. Functionallyspecific reports took even longer as theyrequired sourcing data from variousoperating systems across the business.These processes made actionable businessintelligence and analytics more aspirationalthan feasible, making it clear their data andanalytics strategy needed an overhaul. Despite this client’s deep investmentin high-tech facilities and cutting-edgeprocesses, their information and datasystems had not modernized at thesame rate. This left them lacking datastandardization, with an ill-defineddata strategy, and multiple disparateenterprise resource planning (ERP) anddata systems. Before engaging SoftServe, our clientrecognized the need to clean up their ERPand operational system issues. They hadalready initiated projects to modernize theircore systems and make them consistentand uniformly accessible across theenterprise. But data is only as good as yourability to use it for business innovationand decision-making. Our client neededSoftServe’s expertise to define a businessintelligence strategy that would serve themin the short term and support their long-term analytics, artificial intelligence (AI),and machine learning (ML) goals. These AI/ML aspirations included integrating cutting-edge technological systems such as cropyield forecasting and computer-vision-based product quality processes. That was when the company approachedSoftServe to help mature its data andanalytics strategy to fuel future growth. To turn these goals into reality,SoftServe began with a thoroughdiscovery and needs analysisengagement. First, our experts mappedour client’s systems and critical data.Next, our team met with the company’sbusiness subject matter experts to helpdevelop a consistent and coherent datastrategy roadmap. Finally, we evaluatedthe roadmap to prioritize each step basedon its potential business impact beforepresenting the completed roadmap forapproval. Once our experts built these newoperational dashboards, it eliminatedthe previous spreadsheets’ manual andmulti-day data collection and preparationwork. Instead of only weekly updates, theentire organization can now access theinformation decision-makers need in real-time. The change was so dramatic that oneof the company’s financial analysts calledthese dashboards a “game-changer.” Now our client has key data and analyticsinfrastructure components in place andthe ability to access critical operationaldata and analytics immediately. With thisfoundation, they can focus on movingforward with their long-term businessintelligence and analytics goals, witha path laid out by SoftServe in theircustomized data strategy roadmap. Withthe infrastructure, strategy, and systemsin place, our client is well on their way torealizing both $50M+ in operational savingsand their AI/ML goals. SoftServe’s data strategy roadmapidentified more than $50M in operationalsavings opportunities across thebusiness—from production anddistribution to quality assurance andsales. Based on these opportunities foroperational savings, our client agreed toa pilot program to implement two criticalbusiness operational dashboards. These pilot dashboards required buildingout the core business intelligenceinfrastructure and pipelines whiledefining and vetting key standards fortools. SoftServe had included thesedashboards in the early stage of the datastrategy roadmap to replace the client’sunwieldy Excel spreadsheets. Building and growing an enterprise requiresforward thinking, strategy, and a deepindustry knowledge, but to truly expand,you must be data-driven. LET’S TALKabout how SoftServe cantransform your business intelligence,streamline and optimize operational costs,and enable data-driven success within theagricultural industry. ABOUT SOFTSERVE We are