Based in Cary, North Carolina, Railinc serves the North American freight railroad industry, providing innovative and reliable resources for rail data, IT, and information services.
“We see strong demand for Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog from business users, with steady growth in usage driven by easy visibility and understanding with self-service.”
Shawn Petway
Senior Business Analyst, Railinc
Business Need
Provide business users with easier search and discovery of interline rail data in a diverse, distributed environment
Improve rail data quality and automatically capture data changes in critical systems as they occur
Increase users’ confidence in the data by providing greater visibility into its end-to-end lineage
Challenges
Use a simple, intuitive search interface for enhanced usability
Scale to 100+ metadata resources with room to grow as the business expands
Collaboration among business and IT teams for near real-time data delivery
Solutions & Results
Use Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog to index metadata and add business context to rail data
Builds users’ confidence in data by displaying end-to-end lineage all the way back to when data was first created
Gives business users a better experience with self-service interline rail data discovery while decreasing reliance on IT
Delivers accurate, trusted, and timely rail data to the business by automating data quality and change data capture
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.