By any measure, WESCO's transition to a Teradata Warehouse has been spectacularly successful in achieving the firm's business objectives.

Today, the enterprise data warehouse works with legacy systems to create a holistic view of the business. Decision makers at every level and location have granular information that is accurate and timely.

Current operating information and advanced analytics are now immediately and easily accessible to users across the enterprise, delivered with contextual support that helps managers at every level respond appropriately and effectively to the changing business landscape. Near real-time updating gives management actionable data through more than 700 applications and reports allowing proactive management of issues as they occur.

Sales analysis is down to 75 minutes from 28 hours, invoice detail loading has been reduced from 12 hours to 35 minutes, and the month-end data load cycle takes less than two days rather than six before. Supplier analysis now includes all 24,000 suppliers instead of just the top 150.

Says Steve Van Oss the company's CFO (previously CIO), "Our utilization of the Teradata Warehouse continues to grow…it lets us extend and leverage the legacy system technologies which we have adapted over many years to fit the nuances of WESCO's distribution business. It helps us maintain a decentralized computing platform that we can scale at low cost and virtually without limit, while maintaining the ability to amalgamate our local data for a global, holistic view of the business."