Global Manufacturer to Accelerate Financial Reporting, Optimal Decision-Making
公司规模
Large Corporate
地区
- America
国家
- United States
产品
- MarkLogic® database
技术栈
- MarkLogic
- ERP systems
实施规模
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
- Digital Expertise
技术
- 平台即服务 (PaaS) - 数据管理平台
适用功能
- 离散制造
- 商业运营
用例
- 自动化制造系统
服务
- 系统集成
关于客户
The customer is a U.S.-based multi-billion power management company and global manufacturer that operates in multiple vertical lines of business. The company aims to improve efficiencies, costs, and safety across numerous industries. Through acquisition, organic growth, and product expansion, the company was experiencing a data explosion. The company had hundreds of disparate ERP systems, each with massive volumes of data (multiple TBS of data each), as well as multiple ERP vendors and multiple versions of ERP software that further added to the complexity.
挑战
The global manufacturing company was dealing with a data explosion due to acquisition, organic growth, and product expansion. The company had hundreds of disparate ERP systems, each with massive volumes of data, multiple ERP vendors, and multiple versions of ERP software, which added to the complexity. The company was using relational databases and ETL tools to integrate the data, but the process was slowing innovation and sometimes resulted in data quality issues, which could lead to negative customer experiences. The company needed to integrate its ERP systems, eliminating costly data siloes and time-consuming ETL processes in order to gain a 360-degree view of its data. The organization embarked on a massive integration project using traditional relational tools. After three years, the company had only integrated four of the hundreds of ERP systems. At this pace, the entire system would not be fully integrated for decades, resulting in the organization missing out on numerous opportunities and exposing the company to potential risk.
解决方案
The internal team conducted a proof of concept (POC) with the MarkLogic® database. MarkLogic partner LTI then worked with the manufacturer to ensure a streamlined, smooth process, planning to complete its entire ERP integration project in just six months. Most notably, LTI showed the organization how to remove costly and time-consuming data modeling, migration processes and systems, primarily by relying on MarkLogic's ability to ingest data as is. Under LTI's digital leadership, the manufacturer is using the MarkLogic database to conclude its ambitious ERP integration project. To date, the organization is experiencing faster time to value, future-proofed infrastructure, improved data governance, and reduced costs with increased efficiencies.
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