The outstanding financial performance and robust growth that Ace Hardware enjoys today are driven by a strategic campaign of reinvestment and infrastructure renewal that has refurbished its retail stores and reinforced the ranks of local owner-investors. Less visible but equally important has been a wholesale-to-retail shift in the retailer's business model that has allowed the company to forge new bonds with its retail customers while maintaining the unique independence of local Ace retailers. Technology has played a key role in enabling this strategy, and no technology has contributed more to the transformation than Ace's enterprise data warehouse environment from Teradata.