The Nestlé Group is a global powerhouse, with revenues of $94 billion, more than 276,000 employees, and a portfolio of food and health brands that are household names to consumers around the world. Creating a single enterprise-wide SAP database for all product, customer, employee, and vendor information made improving data quality a high priority.

Challenges

  • Implement a global reference data management policy
  • Create a single worldwide reference
  • Implement a process for ongoing data quality improvement
Data quality is the basis for unfailing execution and the key component of consumers' trust in our products. By giving us the capability to control data quality at the source, to regularly evaluate it, and to coordinate plans to improve quality, Informatica Data Quality and Informatica PowerCenter are the pillars of our global data quality and governance policy.
— Frédéric Loriaux
Data Quality Manager
Nestlé France
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Results

  • Adopted international data sharing standards
  • Implemented data entry verification and monthly data quality reports
  • Created a network of data stewards and key performance indicators
  • Maximized the advantages of migrating to SAP

Technologies Used

  • Achieves pervasive data quality for all stakeholders, projects, applications using a single, unified platform.

  • Accesses, integrates, and delivers any and all data quickly and cost-effectively, without hand coding.