Air Force Knowledge Services
The US Air Force has more than 327,000 active personnel and nearly 5,600 aircraft, as well as missiles and satellites around the globe.
“Before Air Force Knowledge Services, there wasn’t visibility on a timely basis. It might have taken weeks or months to extract that information manually out of all the stove-piped transaction systems.”
— Mike Riley, Program Manager, Air Force Knowledge Service
Business Need
Keeping the fleet in repair and ready to fly.
Lower the cost of delivering defense services.
Challenges
Air Force analysts needed to pull information manually from different databases and information systems and compile it in spreadsheets.
Integrate 26 discrete source systems and databases.
Improve speed and availability of data access.
Introduce reporting tools and dashboards.
Solutions & Results
Recouped $300,000 in excess equipment in one week.
Shortened reporting time from six months to less than an hour.
Enabled end users to generate approximately 20,000 reports a week.
Identified more than $600 million in excess parts.
Products & Services
Informatica PowerCenter
Accesses, integrates, and delivers any and all data quickly and cost-effectively, without hard coding.
Axon Data Governance
Power collaboration, enable regulatory compliance and deliver trusted data to fuel all of your business initiatives.
Success Stories
State of Washington
Enhancing service quality and efficiency across the infrastructure with Informatica Data Integration Hub
Florida Turnpike Enterprise
Reduced time to deliver reports on issues such as revenue, traffic, violations and safety from up to three months to four hours.
The Netherlands Ministry of Defense
Deployed PowerCenter to standardize data migration methodology for greater efficiency.