Rijk Zwaan has more than 90 years of experience in vegetable breeding and seed production. From a vegetable seed shop in Rotterdam in 1924, the company has grown into a top-five global player in creating successful vegetable varieties, with a turnover of more than 350 million euros. Today, the family business sells seeds of more than 1,000 varieties across 25 different vegetable crops. The breeding company is active internationally and marked by continuous growth. It invests heavily in research, knowledge and people, because Rijk Zwaan is convinced this is the only way to keep delivering innovation and quality. The investment in Qlik's solutions is a good example of an investment that benefits both innovation and quality.

Client: Rijk Zwaan
Industry: Horticulture
Product applied: QlikView

The Result

Higher satisfaction

With Qlik's self-service BI solution, everyone has access to the data relevant to them and can analyze it independently. Innovative data connections have created new insights and comparison options that weren't easy to access before, leading to higher satisfaction across the business.

Fast results

Within just five days, the first QlikView application, 'Planning & Realization', was developed during the Proof of Concept, giving insight into production planning, seed sales and the corresponding results. The results were visible immediately and enthusiastically received by the business, after which the environment was quickly turned into a production environment.

Better data quality

Using QlikView creates one version of the truth, because all data sources and systems are connected within a single application. QlikView also makes it cheaper and easier to analyze and view data, which naturally improves the insights gained from it.

Rijk Zwaan improves insight, quality and analysis capabilities of its data with the help of Qlik

Rijk Zwaan had a number of requirements it wanted to see in a business intelligence solution. One goal was central: increasing the business's satisfaction with the BI department's response times.

“The insights we get from the data with QlikView, combined with the intuitive analysis options, help us produce more efficiently and further improve quality.”
Martijn Vervoort
Project Advisor Business · Rijk Zwaan
“Looking back at the initial business case we made for QlikView, we can see that we're earning back our investment.”
Martijn Vervoort
Project Advisor Business · Rijk Zwaan

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