SESVanderHave

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Planting seeds for tomorrow 

A leading global player in the agricultural sector, SESVanderHave specializes in every aspect of the production process of sugar beet seeds. The company’s success speaks for itself: one in three sugar beets in the world comes from one of their seeds.

To bring the perfect seed to the market, the R&D team must think at least 12 years ahead. Until now, however, numerous steps of the breeding process involved time-consuming Excel-based 

data processing due to a lack of end-to-end support of the software supporting the breeding activities.

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Searching for the ‘single source of truth’

AE initially appeared on the scene to develop a platform that would give researchers more control over their data as well as provide them with a single source of truth. To be able to support such a shift, however, SESVanderHave's technology required a substantial update.

AE helped the company to gradually introduce various new technologies and a new way of working. In due course, these innovative technologies and process changes will enable the company to attain its goal of increasing the 

‘genetic gain’ in R&D, for example by foreseeing how seeds will perform based on predictive analytics and current data.