Compass Agribusiness Keeps Farming Sustainable with Domo
Customer Company Size
SME
Region
- Pacific
Country
- Australia
- New Zealand
Product
- Domo
Tech Stack
- IoT devices
- Data Analysis
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Productivity Improvements
- Environmental Impact Reduction
Technology Category
- Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics
Applicable Industries
- Agriculture
Applicable Functions
- Logistics & Transportation
- Quality Assurance
Use Cases
- Farm Monitoring & Precision Farming
- Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
- Predictive Maintenance
Services
- Data Science Services
About The Customer
Compass Agribusiness Management is a company that works with investors and farmers to operate high-performing, sustainable farming operations. They manage several farms across Australia and New Zealand, each with its own ways of managing data. The company leverages technology in their operations, with everything from sunlight and rain to the growth of crops and animals to environmental impact and water quality being measurable. They also monitor financial aspects of the business. The company is focused on creating sustainable operations that take the environment, employee working conditions, and animal welfare into account.
The Challenge
Compass Agribusiness Management works with investors and farmers to operate high-performing, sustainable farming operations. They needed a better way to store and analyze the operational and financial data they were getting from their dozens of systems to better understand how their farms and business are performing. The data was scattered across multiple locations, making it difficult to draw conclusions and answer investor questions. They needed a solution that could bring all the data together in one place for better decision-making.
The Solution
Compass uses Domo to bring all their data together in one place to give business managers the insight they need to direct investments and provide support. Data can come directly from farmers who upload data for analysis, or automatically from IoT devices like moisture probes in the ground or aerial satellite photos that provide weekly updates on yields. This helps Compass make smarter, sustainable decisions about things like water usage. Compass also uses Domo to manage its financial performance, staff utilization and productivity, and operational safety metrics. Alerts are set up to indicate when there is an issue that needs to be addressed across the business or in specific fields.
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