Creating Value from Data with a Central Data Platform for Machine Data
In response to the evolving landscape of industrial machinery and the growing demand for digital products, our client, a leading AI-driven manufacturing and supply chain solutions provider, recognized the need for a unified approach to harness the potential of machine data. The challenge lay in the disparate efforts across business areas, leading to duplicated work and inconsistent development standards. To address this, we embarked on a comprehensive initiative to create a Central Data Platform for Machine Data.
Problem
- Our client and it’s counterparts are developing new digital products and services to complement their expertise in industrial machinery.
- To build such offerings, each business area has experimented with data platforms. But without a coordinated approach, there has been duplicated effort and inconsistent development standards.
- Building a central data platform for machine data will accelerate the creation of new digital offerings across the Group.
Approach
- Building an investment case for a central data platform:interviews with stakeholders from across the Group, desk studies on potential value, and pilot experiments to test technical feasibility.
- Building a state-of-the-data platform on Azure cloud infrastructure.
- Complementing technical infrastructure with the design and implementation of service and governance processes.
- Overall project management to ensure coordination between all business areas.
Results
- Secured board funding for 12-month platform development and operation.
- Developed infrastructure to support use cases representing all business areas.
- Established governance processes and communication strategies to ensure BA engagement in platform development and usage.
Enhancing digitization, product development, and innovation.
Client
Our client is a market leader in AI-driven manufacturing and supply chain solutions. They build user-centric and machine-agnostic Software-as-a-Service solutions that increase manufacturing efficiency worldwide, both through their award-winning venturing building process and by supporting the digital transformation of their counterpart companies.