Oct 15, 2018 | SAN DIEGO, California

Firm wins prestigious Opti Award for modern enterprise-ready analytical ecosystem

Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the main cloud-based information and analytics firm, right this moment introduced that Sasol, a significant worldwide chemical substances and power firm, is partnering with Teradata to create a strong analytical ecosystem that helps the corporate’s imaginative and prescient for making a data-driven enterprise technique.

 

Sasol – which operates in 33 international locations with income topping $21 billion – started a digitization technique in 2015 with the aim of enabling the group to generate, handle and use data-driven insights sooner. Sasol’s enterprise data administration workforce labored with Teradata, by way of the South Africa-based BYTES Expertise Group, to outline a brand new information structure with strategies and processes that allow Sasol to assemble an enterprise-wide analytics program that reduces prices and improves the shopper expertise.

 

“Sasol understands the facility of information and the worth it may carry to day-to-day operations,” stated Marius Model, Senior Vice President for Technique and Steady Enchancment at Sasol. “By leveraging Teradata’s experience, we created an built-in information platform that consists of know-how elements, processes and methodologies that may allow a self-service atmosphere wherein our enterprise models are in a position to establish intelligence and insights particular to their particular person wants. The web result’s that Sasol now has an atmosphere that’s enterprise-ready, so we will proceed on the trail of attaining a dependable, agile and extensible analytical enterprise that helps our enterprise wants.”

 

On the middle of this new analytical ecosystem is an economical, sustainable and versatile cloud-based agile information platform. This well-governed, safe information platform helps scalable analytics within the cloud that allow new technical capabilities that embody: excessive concurrency utilization; information lab governance to empower analysts to develop their very own information views and merchandise; and an open and interoperable atmosphere that’s versatile and elastic to satisfy enterprise calls for.

 

By benefiting from Teradata’s do-it-yourself deployment choice by way of the Microsoft Azure Market, Sasol was in a position to develop a full analytical ecosystem in simply two months, guaranteeing its workforce was able to assist a number of company initiatives in operations, finance and provide chain. The cloud deployment additionally gave Sasol the scalability and adaptability it wanted for its operational {dollars}, avoiding a significant capital funding.

 

For its modern answer, Sasol has been named the winner of the Teradata Opti Award within the prestigious “cloud revolution” class. Sasol was chosen for the award by an impartial panel of judges for harnessing the facility of the cloud to extract new insights that result in significant enterprise outcomes. Johanna Malan, Sasol’s Vice President for Enterprise Info Administration and Info Safety, will current the corporate’s answer throughout Teradata Analytics Universe 2018.

 

“Digitization is disrupting the oil and gasoline business, and Sasol is catapulting to the forefront of this digitization journey by embracing cloud-based analytics at scale,” stated Malan. “Sasol understands that the winners of the digital revolution will embrace the facility of their information and take the mandatory steps to make that information comprehensible and actionable.”

 

Future initiatives may enable Sasol to innovate even additional, equivalent to utilizing drones to fly alongside pipelines to watch and transmit a number of sorts of sensor information for algorithms to detect pipeline asset well being and monitor tools inspections. Sasol’s international digitalization program, enabled by Teradata know-how, is primed to ship further enterprise worth, by making use of a variety of information and digital options to stay aggressive and related:

• Enriching buyer expertise and supporting market development by addressing buyer ache factors and using lots of buyer and market information;
• Enhancing­­­ determination making and productiveness by making use of selective enterprise course of automation throughout a variety of useful areas; and
• Growing operational throughput and effectivity by way of predictive upkeep and power optimization utilizing huge information factors managed by way of the information ecosystem. 

About Sasol

Sasol is a world built-in chemical substances and power firm. By means of our gifted folks, we use chosen applied sciences to securely and sustainably supply, produce and market chemical and power merchandise competitively to create superior worth for our prospects, shareholders and different stakeholders.