Global Manufacturer to Accelerate Financial Reporting, Optimal Decision-Making
Company Size
1,000+
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- MarkLogic® database
Tech Stack
- MarkLogic
- ERP systems
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Digital Expertise
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
- Discrete Manufacturing
Use Cases
- Manufacturing System Automation
Services
- System Integration
About The 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.
The 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.
The 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.
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