Maersk Line is an international container shipping company and the largest operating subsidiary of A.P. Møller – Mærsk A/S, a Danish business conglomerate with activities in the transport, logistics, and energy sectors. Maersk has been the largest container ship and supply vessel operator in the world since 1996. With 374 offices in 116 countries, the company manages approximately 900 vessels, providing global coverage for shipping everything under the sun.
“We’ve had a long and productive relationship with Informatica, our account team, and the Professional Services team. Informatica has been a pleasure to work with over the years, so it was a natural choice for us to build on the success of that relationship.”
Business Need
- Accelerate data warehouse modernization and migration to Microsoft Azure
- Use integrated yet specialized tools for every aspect of data management
- Develop collaborative business glossaries to provide business context for data
Challenges
- Modernize their infrastructure with a cloud data lake to feed predictive analytics and machine learning models with timely, high-quality data from diverse sources, including telematics data from ships at sea
- Provide self-service analytics to data analysts and business users to generate faster insights and reduce their reliance on IT
- Improve and accelerate data governance while tracking end-to-end data lineage and empowering users to easily locate data with a simple search
Solutions & Results
- Use Informatica Big Data Management, Informatica Data Quality, and Informatica Multidomain MDM solutions to integrate, verify, and deduplicate data from ships and legacy systems
- Prepare cataloged data for analysis using Informatica Enterprise Data Preparation, providing simple self-service access with visualization
- Saves 90 percent of employee time previously spent on manual data discovery and governance, resulting in 10x faster processes
- Discover data assets enterprise-wide using Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog and automate data governance with Informatica Axon Data Governance
- Helps Maersk more accurately track customer cargos, reduce costs and maintain its competitive edge
- Allows analysts and business users to generate their own insights on containers, vessels, and customers, without relying on IT
Products & Services
Informatica Axon Data Governance
Power collaboration, enable regulatory compliance and deliver trusted data to fuel all of your business initiatives.
Data Engineering Integration
Enable faster, flexible, and repeatable big data ingestion and integration.
Data Quality
Deliver high-quality clean and trusted data with enterprise-class data quality and governance that scales, regardless of size and format of data; platform; or technology.
Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog
Discover and inventory data assets across your organization.
Informatica Enterprise Data Preparation
Prepare and operationalize big data for faster trusted insights.
Master Data Management
Maximize the business value of your enterprise information with a modular end-to-end solution delivering a unified view of all your master data.
Informatica PowerCenter
Accesses, integrates, and delivers any and all data quickly and cost-effectively, without hand coding.
