One of the four divisions of the Lagardère group, Lagardère Travel Retail is a pioneering global leader in the travel retail industry, operating over 4,600 stores across Travel Essentials, Duty Free & Fashion, and Foodservice in airports, railway stations, and other concessions in 39 countries worldwide. In the Pacific region, Lagardère Travel retail operates more than 130 outlets across 23 airports, supported by professional local teams in Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia.
“We selected Informatica because of its robust services organization, strong local partnerships, and close alignment with our cloud-first strategy”
Shaun Stanyer
Business Need
- Follow cloud-first strategy to integrate global retail systems
- Keep costs predictable and manageable in support of travel retail reporting needs
- Select a well-known iPaaS vendor to leverage best practices
Challenges
- Thrive in a changing business landscape by expanding retail partnerships and exchanging product and sales data among systems
- Optimize inventory planning and meet monthly sales reporting obligations to travel retail landlords
- Overcome reliance on internally developed, hand-coded data integration solutions and manual processes
Solutions & Results
- Share data between systems using Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services, a next-generation iPaaS solution
- Bring Microsoft Dynamics NAV data into a cloud-based inventory application and pull location-specific sales data from SQL Server databases
- Lets developers and database administrators be more strategic by automating previously manual workflows
- Use Informatica Cloud Data Integration for codeless data integration with most common data sources, both on-premises and cloud
- Supports business strategy by enabling faster, API-based sharing of data between more diverse systems
- Speeds up reporting and BI processes to improve inventory planning and provide landlords with accurate, timely reports
Products & Services
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services is a next generation iPaaS, which is made up of a growing number of data management products. The productivity of the environment is accelerated by a common user experience across all products, the AI/ML-driven intelligence of the CLAIRE™ engine, and a microservices architecture.
Cloud Data Integration
Codeless, optimized integration to hundreds of applications and data sources across on-premises and cloud.
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