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Tejon Ranch Company: Pioneering the development of smarter communities with analytics

Technology Category
  • Analytics & Modeling - Big Data Analytics
  • Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
Applicable Industries
  • Agriculture
Applicable Functions
  • Facility Management
  • Logistics & Transportation
Use Cases
  • Building Automation & Control
  • Building Energy Management
  • Construction Site Monitoring
Services
  • Data Science Services
  • System Integration
The Challenge
Tejon Ranch, with its 270,000 acres of California real estate, operates on a grand scale. The size of the property unlocks opportunities that smaller companies can only dream about – and at the same time, the scope of the challenge created by those opportunities can also be vast. The company knew that its ability to build the communities of the future would depend on its ability to harness technology – and in particular, its ability to gather, analyze and understand data. It also realized that analytics could not only help it to design and build its new developments, but could also help it to transform its traditional business lines, such as its hunting and farming operations.
About The Customer
Established in 1843, Tejon Ranch Company (NYSE:TRC) is a fully diversified integrated real estate company and agribusiness, whose principal asset is California’s historic Tejon Ranch. The 270,000-acre ranch is the largest single piece of private property in the state. In addition to agriculture, the company also manages the property’s significant oil, gas and mineral resources, and is developing a number of major commercial, industrial, retail and residential real estate projects.
The Solution
For the past three years, Tejon Ranch has been working in partnership with IBM to build a single platform for content management, collaboration and analytics across all of its lines of business. This effort has recently reached a major milestone with the development of a new user interface known as the EVO UI, which gives employees instant access to data, documents and collaboration tools via a unified mobile interface on their PC, smartphone or tablet device. The heart of the platform is enterprise content management, which unites all of the organization’s documents and correspondence into a central repository, overlaid with seamless, automated workflows that make it easy to support sophisticated business processes. Tejon Ranch has also integrated geographic information systems (GIS) with its content management solution, enabling documents and data to be mapped to relevant locations across the ranch.
Operational Impact
  • By uncovering patterns in data, Tejon Ranch can work smarter, more safely, and more sustainably.
  • Connecting people to data and eliminating paperwork enables savings of USD4 million over three years.
  • The platform provides a new way to visualize information and reveals new patterns that the organization could not see before.
Quantitative Benefit
  • Savings of USD4 million over three years.

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