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WeWork Enhances Data Collaboration and Compliance with Fivetran

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Technology Category	Cybersecurity & Privacy - Security Compliance Sensors - GPS
Applicable Industries	Buildings National Security & Defense
Applicable Functions	Human Resources Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Leasing Finance Automation Tamper Detection
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Data Science Services
Challenge	WeWork, a global provider of flexible office spaces, faced the challenge of securely managing and leveraging its vast data resources to drive business decisions. As a publicly-traded company, WeWork had to meet stringent regulatory compliance requirements, ensuring data governance across disparate sources and silos. The company needed to track data movement and user access over time, demonstrating to auditors and regulators that customer information was safe from internal and external threats. The challenge was not only to pull in data and provide access but also to maintain a historical record of data ingestion, changes to the database, and access. The company also aimed to create a culture of data literacy and innovation, empowering business agility through the use of data. Read More
About Customer	WeWork is a global provider of flexible office spaces, founded in 2010 with the vision to create environments where people and companies come together and do their best work. The company manages more than 50 million square feet of office space and went public in 2021. WeWork leverages data to make smarter decisions, enabling employees to navigate the challenges associated with accelerated growth, a fast-moving real-estate market, and the rigorous regulation that comes with going public. The company aims to instill a data-driven culture across its operations, using data as a competitive advantage. Read More
Solution	WeWork employed Fivetran to ingest data from hundreds of cloud-based and on-premise sources into Snowflake, a cloud data platform. Fivetran provided a formalized framework to pull in this data with a historical record of what and when data has been ingested, including any changes to the database and who has access. Fivetran also made it easy to show that the dataset is complete, which is crucial when tracking reservations, inventory, and other metrics. Fivetran pulled data from Postgres databases at each WeWork location and consolidated it in Snowflake, providing stakeholders with real-time insight into occupancy, turnover, outstanding renewals, member growth, and profit margins per location, per region, and across the company. Fivetran also ingested data from Salesforce and WeWork’s proprietary billing solution into Snowflake, providing deeper visibility into WeWork’s relationship with larger organizations. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Security Compliance

Sensors - GPS

Applicable Industries

Buildings

National Security & Defense

Applicable Functions

Human Resources

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Leasing Finance Automation

Tamper Detection

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Data Science Services

Challenge

WeWork, a global provider of flexible office spaces, faced the challenge of securely managing and leveraging its vast data resources to drive business decisions. As a publicly-traded company, WeWork had to meet stringent regulatory compliance requirements, ensuring data governance across disparate sources and silos. The company needed to track data movement and user access over time, demonstrating to auditors and regulators that customer information was safe from internal and external threats. The challenge was not only to pull in data and provide access but also to maintain a historical record of data ingestion, changes to the database, and access. The company also aimed to create a culture of data literacy and innovation, empowering business agility through the use of data.

About Customer

WeWork is a global provider of flexible office spaces, founded in 2010 with the vision to create environments where people and companies come together and do their best work. The company manages more than 50 million square feet of office space and went public in 2021. WeWork leverages data to make smarter decisions, enabling employees to navigate the challenges associated with accelerated growth, a fast-moving real-estate market, and the rigorous regulation that comes with going public. The company aims to instill a data-driven culture across its operations, using data as a competitive advantage.

Solution

WeWork employed Fivetran to ingest data from hundreds of cloud-based and on-premise sources into Snowflake, a cloud data platform. Fivetran provided a formalized framework to pull in this data with a historical record of what and when data has been ingested, including any changes to the database and who has access. Fivetran also made it easy to show that the dataset is complete, which is crucial when tracking reservations, inventory, and other metrics. Fivetran pulled data from Postgres databases at each WeWork location and consolidated it in Snowflake, providing stakeholders with real-time insight into occupancy, turnover, outstanding renewals, member growth, and profit margins per location, per region, and across the company. Fivetran also ingested data from Salesforce and WeWork’s proprietary billing solution into Snowflake, providing deeper visibility into WeWork’s relationship with larger organizations.

Impact #1	The use of Fivetran has enabled WeWork to meet the rigorous regulatory compliance demands of a publicly-traded company and ensure data governance across disparate sources and silos. It has empowered business agility through the use of data and helped create a culture of data literacy and innovation. Fivetran's solution has provided WeWork with reliable, secure, and trackable access to critical business information, helping stakeholders optimize their work and interactions with customers. The solution has also allowed WeWork to meet strict access-control requirements and instill a data-driven culture across its operations without putting the publicly-traded company at risk.

Impact #1

The use of Fivetran has enabled WeWork to meet the rigorous regulatory compliance demands of a publicly-traded company and ensure data governance across disparate sources and silos. It has empowered business agility through the use of data and helped create a culture of data literacy and innovation. Fivetran's solution has provided WeWork with reliable, secure, and trackable access to critical business information, helping stakeholders optimize their work and interactions with customers. The solution has also allowed WeWork to meet strict access-control requirements and instill a data-driven culture across its operations without putting the publicly-traded company at risk.

Benefit #1	Fivetran saves WeWork hundreds of engineering hours per month
Benefit #2	Fivetran ingests data from hundreds of cloud-based and on-premise sources into Snowflake
Benefit #3	Fivetran pulls data from Postgres databases at each WeWork location and consolidates it in Snowflake, providing real-time insight into key business metrics

Benefit #1

Fivetran saves WeWork hundreds of engineering hours per month

Benefit #2

Fivetran ingests data from hundreds of cloud-based and on-premise sources into Snowflake

Benefit #3

Fivetran pulls data from Postgres databases at each WeWork location and consolidates it in Snowflake, providing real-time insight into key business metrics

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WeWork Enhances Data Collaboration and Compliance with Fivetran

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