2026 SAG Award Winners

Canadian Tire Corporation

Project Goal

The goal of this project was to modernize and expand Canadian Tire Corporation’s enterprise GIS capabilities to enable scalable, self-serve geospatial insights across real estate, retail, and enterprise decision support functions. The initiative focused on building a secure, resilient GIS platform and delivering intuitive applications that allow business teams to independently explore performance, market conditions, risks, and forecast scenarios – reducing the dependency on manual, ad hoc analysis while improving the speed and quality of decision making.
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Business Problem Solved

Canadian Tire Corp. operates a large and diverse retail portfolio across Canada, whose operations are supported by multiple enterprise functions (real estate, decision support, corporate development, loyalty partnerships, enterprise risk, etc) that rely on timely location-based insights. Historically, geospatial analysis was siloed, manual, and – given the breadth of subject areas and stakeholders – difficult to scale, resulting in longer turnaround times and inconsistent outputs.

This project addressed those challenges by transitioning from ad hoc GIS workflows to a centralized enterprise GIS platform with self-serve applications, giving business users direct access to trusted geospatial data and analysis, reducing reliance on manual requests and freeing up the GIS team to focus on higher-value strategic work.

This initiative has highlighted GIS as a strategic decision support capability across the organization, drawing in 400+ users in the first year of operation.

Technology Implemented

The solution was implemented using Esri’s Enterprise GIS stack, including:

ArcGIS Enterprise for secure, internally hosted Web GIS capabilities that support enterprise-wide access and collaboration.

ArcGIS Pro for our GIS Professionals, supporting advanced analytics, data management, and process development.

ArcGIS Online to support select web maps and application deployment where appropriate (i.e. application and data do not contain confidential information and are meant to be customer facing)

ArcGIS Dashboards, Experience Builders, and Instant Apps to deliver self-serve tools that give the organization’s non-technical users easy access to key geospatial information and market insights.

Enterprise Sites to launch Triangle Atlas – a one-stop shop that allows our users to explore data that’s available, dashboards, static maps, resources, and get to try their hand at map making.

Development Team Biography

Sean Sears (Manager, Decision Support Analytics) led the Enterprise GIS architecture and infrastructure modernization, working with Esri and IT partners to deploy a scalable and secure GIS platform.

Taylor Cayen (Manager, Real Estate & GIS Decision Support) leads enterprise GIS strategy and self-serve geospatial decision support initiatives across Canadian Tire Corporation.

Ting Wei (Senior GIS Systems Admin), Robert Daniel (GIS Technician), and Junior Thiensirisak (Senior GIS Analyst) ensure applications remain reliable through system maintenance, data management, reporting, and user-friendly geospatial solutions.

This initiative was delivered in close partnership with CTC IT (Syed Riaz Manjir, Varun Vooka, Khushi Kalra, Mitesh Gandhi, Suman Sahoo, Kimberley Callahan, and Dina Soryal) and Esri Canada (Stefano Maniglia, Vinicius Tavares, Gandhar Wazalwar, Arnold Rudy, Christopher Bates) with executive sponsorship from Thomas Swintak, Patricia DeRoma, and Brian McCammond.

Company Overview

Canadian Tire Corporation (CTC) has been a proudly Canadian company since 1922, guided by its brand purpose, “We are here to make life in Canada better”.

CTC operates a broad portfolio of retail, petroleum, financial services, and real estate businesses across the country, supported by a strong national workforce and a trusted network of Dealers and franchisees. Its banners and brand partners are unified through the Triangle Rewards loyalty program, which connects more than 12 million members across nearly 1,700 retail and gasoline locations.

Return on Investment

The enterprise GIS modernization initiative delivered significant organizational value by transforming GIS from a centralized, request-based service into a scalable, self-serve decision-support capability.

Key outcomes include improved efficiency through reduced manual analysis, faster scenario testing and decision-making for real estate and enterprise teams, and greater consistency through centralized data governance and trusted spatial datasets. The platform has also enabled broader adoption of GIS across the organization, allowing business users to directly access geospatial insights while freeing the GIS team to focus on higher-value, strategic initiatives.

Together, these outcomes have strengthened Canadian Tire Corporation’s ability to make timely, informed decisions at scale and maximized the long-term value of its enterprise GIS investment.