Stroock, a leading financial institution, was looking to enable cloud services like Microsoft Office 365 while ensuring sensitive data is protected. They were facing fragmented visibility and control across cloud and web, and there was a risk of sensitive data loss and noncompliance. The firm was also dealing with the complexity and added costs of deploying and managing separate and inconsistent Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies to protect client data across web, cloud and networks. Their existing web proxy solution was not meeting the evolving requirements of their organization. With employees everywhere, users were going directly to the internet and bypassing their secure perimeter. Users were also accessing cloud services on personal and mobile devices, and, in addition to browsers, using native apps and sync clients. Their legacy web proxy tool was blind to most of this traffic.

ED&F Man Holdings, a commodities trading company, faced a significant challenge in mitigating cybersecurity risks. A security incident several years ago served as a wake-up call to the increasing success of cyberattacks. An independent assessment indicated that the company needed to significantly step up its cybersecurity processes, tools, and people. The company undertook a complete security transformation. Carmelo Gallo took over as the cybersecurity manager to protect the operations of the $10 billion company that has a presence in 60 countries. A focus on next-generation security technology, integration, and automation has rapidly accelerated the company’s security maturity.

INDEVCO, a multinational manufacturing and industrial consultancy group, was facing challenges in detecting internal threats, gaining visibility into their network, and maintaining network hygiene. They had an open-source security information and event management (SIEM) solution and an endpoint detection and response (EDR) solution, but these were not sufficient. The company needed a solution that could help them better protect data and keep their operations running smoothly across their 38 manufacturing plants and 38 commercial companies worldwide.

ROSSMANN, one of the largest drugstore chains in Europe, was facing a significant challenge in identifying threats inside its network. The IT security team, led by Daniel Luttermann, was tasked with strengthening the company's security posture to catch cyberattackers at the network perimeter and within the network. Before evaluating vendors, ROSSMANN conducted a red team exercise to identify potential security weaknesses and vulnerabilities. The results of this penetration test were used to gauge vendors in the proof-of-concept (POC) testing phase. The team ultimately chose a diverse roster of solutions that included the Cognito® network detection and response (NDR) platform from Vectra®.

Seacoast Bank, a growing community bank, faced a challenge with its operational data residing in a hosted data warehouse environment. There were many data silos that existed outside of the hosted platform and adding new sources of data or enriching the hosted data was not possible. The bank wanted to enhance the reporting experience for the departmental users. In the past, business users had to request custom static reports from the IT team, for operational purposes. These ad-hoc, manual reports used to get created as PDF or Excel files, making the reporting process extremely inefficient and outdated. Seacoast wanted its business users to interact directly with the data in a self-service manner, so they could create any type of custom report, based on the company's changing needs.

Reintegra, a part of the Santander Group and a leader in collection management in Spain, was facing a significant challenge due to the economic crisis and a fall in consumer spend. The financial impact of delayed collections was growing, imposing a financial cost of over 0.5% on a company's invoicing. In addition, such delays were the cause of 25% of bankruptcies. With over 50% of invoices paid late, efficient collections management and debt recovery became crucial for the company's well-being. Reintegra needed to automate their search process for information regarding debtors, especially when trying to locate untraceable contacts. This task was accelerated by identifying valid telephone numbers and enabling direct contact. However, before the implementation of Denodo Data Virtualization, this task was carried out manually by Reintegra agents, resulting in significant resource investment, both in time and money.

The healthcare service provider decided to replace its main patient information system with a completely new system. This was going to be an expensive project that could span a number of years. As part of this initiative, the company also decided to modernize its data infrastructure built around an enterprise data warehouse. It took the company’s IT operations team a significant amount of time to implement changes to this infrastructure, which impeded the company’s overall agility as well as its ability to test new functionality. In addition, it was a batch-oriented infrastructure that furnished nightly reports. The company needed a solution that would enable the new infrastructure to seamlessly support both the dimensionally modeled enterprise data warehouse and the new transactional system, enabling both to work in tandem.

AXA XL's data management architecture was extremely complex, with multiple operational source systems and multiple stakeholders from different business groups using their own BI tools to access data. The company relied on ETL processes to integrate the data, leading to excessive replication. This resulted in latencies in data delivery and inconsistencies between different data sets, creating multiple versions of the truth. Outdated or unreliable figures were reported to stakeholders. There was also a lack of data access control, with no way to trace who accessed what data, or when. Without role-based access rules, anyone could access any data, regardless of whether or not they had the authority. This made the entire data management architecture extremely vulnerable to security breaches and exposed the company to the risk of falling out of GDPR compliance.

Festo, a leading supplier of automation technology and technical education, was looking to optimize operational efficiency, automate manufacturing processes, and deliver on-demand services to its business consumers. This included finding smarter ways to streamline how the company aggregates and analyzes data. Festo also needed its business users to become self-sufficient with reporting and analysis and reduce their reliance on IT for preparing and surfacing the data they need. In addition, Festo's business teams had launched strategic projects to maximize energy efficiency, and they needed to be able to provide instant visibility on energy usage directly to the shop floor teams. However, Festo was challenged in finding an agile and robust way to integrate the data from the existing silos, which included the data warehouse, machine data sources, and other sources, in a way that would reduce the reliance on IT by the business users while providing the quick turnaround and flexibility that the users were demanding.

GetSmarter, a digital education company, was experiencing rapid growth due to the popularity of its university accredited online courses. As the company's customer base and operations grew, so did its data repositories, which contained a variety of functional data covering marketing, finance, courses, students, and many other domains. With data spread across so many heterogeneous systems, business users could not perform a unified analysis of the enterprise data or achieve a single version of the truth. The company's reporting tools now needed to talk to many databases instead of just one. GetSmarter needed a way to accommodate the many-to-many reporting tool and avoid having to manage multiple database connections.

ABN AMRO Verzekeringen, a joint venture of NN Group and ABN AMRO Bank, was struggling with its classic data warehouse architecture. The company had a growing need to become data-driven, but the existing data warehouse was increasingly unable to meet this demand. The company had to report to various stakeholders, including internal business units and the two organizations of the joint venture, as well as various regulators. The demand for reliable, frequent, and up-to-date data had significantly increased within the organization. The existing data warehouse made it difficult to combine information from different source systems and create up-to-date reports. The business units only received monthly updates on the progress of campaigns or the quality of services. The final push for change came at the end of 2018 when it became clear that support for the tooling and database of the current data warehouse would no longer be provided in the foreseeable future.

Sicredi, formed by 108 credit unions, has a large number of data systems and platforms that make up the backbone of its IT infrastructure. Each individual credit union, besides wanting to ensure that it was serving unique data needs for informed decision-making, also wanted to improve its time-to-market. Most data needs at Sicredi are fulfilled through dashboards, reports, and offline files, all of which is leveraged by data analysts to generate insights. Due to the siloed nature of these data assets, data analysts have been relying on extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes to consolidate data from different data systems, including a data warehouse, a data lake (on AWS), and several sandboxes, to create local data repositories, which takes a lot of data analyst time and requires additional storage systems. Most of the organization’s data was stored in the data warehouse and data lake, which delivered dashboards and reports to business intelligence and analytics applications. Sicredi needed an integrated data platform that could scale at demand and promote both data democratization and self-service for data and analytics, without the need to replicate data. Sicredi also wanted to implement data governance throughout the organization.

Cork County Council, the largest county in Ireland, was tasked with reducing energy consumption by 30% by 2020 as per a directive from the European Union (EU). The council treats and supplies water to approximately 40,000 non-domestic customers and 100,000 homes across the county. Due to its size, Cork County is divided into four zones– North, South, East, and West Cork–which makes data aggregation challenging. The council was using manual data entry with Excel to produce the leakage figures required by the Department of the Environment. However, with four zones to maintain, this method made it too difficult to efficiently calculate leakage figures. Furthermore, the average daily volume of water produced in Cork County is estimated to be well over 150,000 yd3 /day with the total length of water in the Public Water Supply Schemes estimated to be 3,500 miles long. The number of yards from which to retrieve that data continues to increase – approximately 391 DMAs with up to 3 yards per DMA. With such a vast supply network, the Council could not meet the new EU directives on energy consumption by continuing to use traditional manual data collection methods.

The T5 Terminal at London’s Heathrow Airport was one of Europe’s largest construction projects, funded by BAA at £4.2 billion. The terminal was designed to be a fully integrated facility, monitored through a central Terminal Service Centre (TSC) and mobile devices. A common user interface was needed to access heating, ventilation, lighting, fire, elevator, CCTV, and security systems as well as to centralize alarm management and automate system interaction. At its opening, T5 included over 50 different systems, producing a massive tag count of over 3 million. In addition, by using open industry standards based on OPC, the resulting architecture has been designed to provide flexibility for future expansion and integration, as required by the customer.

AES Wind Generation, a division of AES, an international power company, was in need of a robust system that could perform calculations in real time from both user input and data coming from the field. They needed a system that could connect via open standard protocols and provide both instantaneous and aggregate data for monitoring and reporting. The company was also looking for a system that could be implemented quickly and efficiently, given the high amount of repetition involved with each unit having identical inputs and outputs. Additionally, they wanted a system that would fit into a virtual machine environment to facilitate backup and recovery in case of a hardware or software failure.

The city of Lubbock, located in the arid Texas panhandle, faces significant challenges in managing its water resources. With a growing population, the city must draw water from multiple sources, including Lake Meredith, groundwater from aquifers, and well-fields operated by the Canadian River Water Authority. The Lubbock Water Utilities Department is responsible for managing all aspects of the city's water needs, including water collection, water and wastewater treatment. The department needed a solution that would allow it to efficiently monitor and control all aspects of its water treatment plant, wastewater treatment plant, and well-field. The solution needed to provide real-time data on critical process variables, including chlorine, turbidity, suspended solids, and oxidation-reduction potential (ORP).

Maritsa East 3 Thermal Power Plant (TPP) is the third largest power plant in Bulgaria, generating 30 percent of the country's electricity. The plant was built by Russia between 1978 and 1981 and supplies electricity grids in both Turkey and Bulgaria. However, the plant was in need of large-scale modernization and upgrades, an increase in output and power capacity, and meeting the European ecological requirements. The final part of the project was the integration of all control systems on a single platform. EXBIT was chosen as the developer and system integrator for the Control and Monitoring Integration System. The objectives for the Maritsa East 3 TPP project included large-scale modernization and upgrades, an increase in output and power capacity, and meeting the European ecological requirements.

The Republic of Croatia, in cooperation with The European Union, introduced legislation for environmental protection through continuous emissions monitoring. Dalmacijacement d.d. set out, with assistance from ECCOS inženjering, to bring all of its factories under compliance, with the goal of creating a continuous emissions monitoring system (CEMS). Manufacturing facilities are often assumed to be sources of pollution, so a system was required that could continuously monitor emissions, graphically depict these emissions, normalize the measurements, archive measured and calculated (i.e. normalized) values, inform the public through corporate Web pages and, most importantly, create daily, monthly and yearly reports in Microsoft Excel and XML-formats that adhere to the legislative requirements.