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	Global Manufacturer to Accelerate Financial Reporting, Optimal Decision-Making Progress

Global Manufacturer to Accelerate Financial Reporting, Optimal Decision-Making

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Technology Category	Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
Applicable Functions	Business Operation Discrete Manufacturing
Use Cases	Manufacturing System Automation
Services	System Integration
Challenge	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. Read More
About Customer	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. Read More
Solution	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. Read More Log in to view content
Contents

Technology Category

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Discrete Manufacturing

Use Cases

Manufacturing System Automation

Services

System Integration

Challenge

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.

About Customer

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.

Solution

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.

Impact #1	Faster Time to Value: With the MarkLogic database serving as the foundation for the ERP integration project, LTI predicts the company will complete the solution 40x faster than with a relational database.
Impact #2	Future-Proofed Infrastructure: Because MarkLogic can handle multiple schemas, and version those schemas, new changes do not break existing connections and applications. As such, the company can rest assured that new data sources or changes to the infrastructure can be made with minimal IT headaches. Additionally, MarkLogic's scalability can support tens of thousands of transactions per second.
Impact #3	Improved Data Governance: Once the data silos are integrated into the MarkLogic database, raw data and metadata remain intact and the company can track the details across the data lifecycle-its provenance, who can see it, how it changed-all in a single system, providing users with an actionable, 360-degree view of data.

Impact #1

Faster Time to Value: With the MarkLogic database serving as the foundation for the ERP integration project, LTI predicts the company will complete the solution 40x faster than with a relational database.

Impact #2

Future-Proofed Infrastructure: Because MarkLogic can handle multiple schemas, and version those schemas, new changes do not break existing connections and applications. As such, the company can rest assured that new data sources or changes to the infrastructure can be made with minimal IT headaches. Additionally, MarkLogic's scalability can support tens of thousands of transactions per second.

Impact #3

Improved Data Governance: Once the data silos are integrated into the MarkLogic database, raw data and metadata remain intact and the company can track the details across the data lifecycle-its provenance, who can see it, how it changed-all in a single system, providing users with an actionable, 360-degree view of data.

Benefit #1	The company will complete the solution 40x faster than with a relational database.
Benefit #2	MarkLogic's scalability can support tens of thousands of transactions per second.

Benefit #1

The company will complete the solution 40x faster than with a relational database.

Benefit #2

MarkLogic's scalability can support tens of thousands of transactions per second.

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Global Manufacturer to Accelerate Financial Reporting, Optimal Decision-Making

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