Feeding America is a nonprofit with a mission to feed America’s hungry through a nationwide network of 200-member food banks and engage the country in the fight to end hunger. What began in 1979 as a clearinghouse for national food donations is now the nation’s largest domestic hunger relief organization. Forbes ranks it as the second largest U.S. charity by revenue.
“We’re connecting our food banks through Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services so we can make better decisions about how to help ensure that people get enough to eat while also rescuing safe, nutritious food that would otherwise go to waste.”
Business Need
- Enhance mission to solve food insecurity by analyzing current data from member food banks instead of relying on surveys
- Scale capacity for processing food and financial donations on demand to respond to fluctuations in food security
- Improve operating efficiency by moving to cloud apps for donation tracking while connecting to diverse source systems
Challenges
- Use technology to help donations make the greatest impact
- Assure member food banks that their data will be secure
- Select a cloud-based solution that can support future goals
Solutions & Results
- Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services brings in data from over a dozen internal systems and is actively adding data from 200 network member food banks making it available for analytics
- The Informatica solution pulls live data from food banks into a cloud data warehouse using native, high-volume connectivity to Google BigQuery
- Improves efficiency in accepting food and financial donations and transporting the right quantities to the right food banks
- Informatica Cloud Data Integration connects cloud apps such as NetSuite and Salesforce to legacy systems and databases
- Facilitates informed, rapid decision-making to help provide more people with access to nutritious food
- Provides a secure platform to receive 20x more financial donations, 6x more food transportation requests, and 7x more grocery orders in response to COVID-19
Products & Services
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services is a next generation iPaaS, which is made up of a growing number of data management products. The productivity of the environment is accelerated by a common user experience across all products, the AI/ML-driven intelligence of the CLAIRE™ engine, and a microservices architecture.
Cloud Data Integration
Codeless, optimized integration to hundreds of applications and data sources across on-premises and cloud.
