The Transportation Industry’s Unique Data Challenges
The transportation business generates vast amounts of data about its passengers and cargo. This data is spread over disparate systems—from scheduling, staffing, and supply chain applications to maintenance records, customer relationship management systems, and financial databases. Transportation companies are grappling with challenges that stem from this data—its massive volumes, its complex formats, its questionable quality, and its many sources.
Transportation companies need to be able to access, integrate, and trust their information assets so they can increase operational efficiency, better manage regulatory compliance, and respond more effectively to industry changes.
Increase Operational Efficiency
The transportation industry is struggling with volatile fuel prices, fluctuating demand and capacity, increased competition, and an ever-more stringent regulatory climate. To control costs and boost profits in the face of these challenges, your transportation company must maximize its operational efficiency.
How does your company consolidate existing applications and data wherever possible to reduce costs? How do you integrate your existing infrastructure with new technologies that make your company more responsive to changing business conditions? How do you turn data in multiple formats and varying degrees of quality into a single, consistent overview your managers can analyze and act upon?
Informatica can help.
“The Informatica data integration platform is a key element of our data warehousing and business intelligence initiatives. Through these initiatives we have been able to be more responsive to customers, and recoup our investment in Informatica through improved productivity, reduced costs, and improved leadership position in the marketplace.”
- Tom Cummings
Manager of Knowledge Services, Schneider National
Better Manage Regulatory Compliance
Transportation companies are subject to corporate governance requirements as well as a growing number of foreign and domestic passenger and cargo security regulations. Your company needs clear audit trails, solid controls, and clean, reliable data to achieve the levels of asset management and operational transparency necessary for compliance.
How does your company pull consistent, reliable, auditable data from many separate sources to create timely reports? How do you ensure that data is high quality and accurate? How do you build dashboards and alerts that present the integrated data to your top managers in a format that helps them spot potential compliance issues in real time?
Informatica can help.
Improve Responsiveness to Industry Changes
Consolidation. Deregulation. Outsourcing. Competition. In the volatile global transportation marketplace, your company needs to pay attention to customers, vendors, and partners as never before. Improving customer service, cutting costs, and minimizing security issues all depend on your ability to turn raw data into business intelligence that you can share with global partners.
How does your company keep from drowning in a torrent of enterprise data from multiple systems? How do you synchronize data between internal and external systems to provide complete visibility—even into outsourced business processes? How do you plan, project, manage, and audit performance between companies and across borders?
Informatica can help.
“A company that emphasizes service quality and leadership requires good information, comprehensible and readable data, and, above all, time to make good decisions and guide our business. Our Informatica PowerCenter data warehouse is a key strategic tool, a pillar of our success, and the strategic foundation for consolidating our market leadership position across Europe.”
- Stefan Ostrowski
CIO, Europcar