Customer challenge: A leading global machine manufacturing firm wanted to better monitor the performance of the engines it sells to customers around the world. The engines operate under a wide spectrum of climates and environmental factors that may impact engine viability. The manufacturer realized that the ability to access all types of data (structured, semi- structured and unstructured content) would allow them to
significantly enhance its service efforts. The customer’s goal is to be proactive in the monitoring of their customer’s engine usage in order to improve their responsiveness and increase customer satisfaction.
Attivio Customer Success Story - Agile BI Global Manufacturer Search & Discovery
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Customer challenge: A leading global machine manufacturing firm wanted
to better monitor the performance of the engines it sells to customers
around the world. The engines operate under a wide spectrum of climates
and environmental factors that may impact engine viability. The
manufacturer realized that the ability to access all types of data (structured,
semi- structured and unstructured content) would allow them to
significantly enhance its service efforts. The customer’s goal is to be
proactive in the monitoring of their customer’s engine usage in order to
improve their responsiveness and increase customer satisfaction.
Customer needed a flexible and open solution: After a review of Oracle
Endeca and Microsoft FAST, the company selected Attivio’s Active
Intelligence Engine (AIE). Attivio was chosen for its flexiblity, open support
of the company’s TIBCO Spotfire business intelligence (BI) dashboard tool
and the ability to put structure to all forms of data and content.
Unlike traditional data warehouses and other information management
solutions, Attivio AIE freely integrates and correlates all enterprise
information – structured data, semi-structured and unstructured content
alike – with no advanced data modeling required. Attivio can present this
unified information via standard BI tools with native SQL support and
ODBC/JDBC connectivity, or a Google® like search inteface for the non BI
tool user.
The customer realized that Attivio provides new analytics and insights that
managers were looking for – well beyond what was possible working with
structured data, semi-structured or unstructured content separately.
Increasing customer satisfaction using data: The company used Attivio for
rapid development of BI dashboards to visually analyze the performance of
its engines, in service around the world, at a new level of depth and breadth
of detail. Doing so would greatly enhance insight for business agility, with
highly proactive management of its customer engine fleets for significantly
greater efficiency and customer satisfaction.
The BI dashboards now presents increasing levels of detailed information,
by customer, engine fleet and engine type, down to each engine.
Providing a 360° view from multiple data sources: The company identified
several essential performance metrics, requiring data from multiple sources,
including:
Engine diagnostic data constantly generated by sensors throughout
each engine’s operation, approaching “big data” volumes.
Engine service status data (e.g., engine utilization, service hours since
last maintenance, etc.).
Manufacturing quality metrics, already maintained in a data warehouse.
Customer Resource Management (CRM) records.
Attivio: An Analyze
Everything Platform
Global manufacturer needed a
flexible and open solution to
analyze data from any source –
structured and unstructured –
using popular BI tools and
without advance data modeling.
Customer quotes:
“We should use Attivio AIE and
follow this approach for all our
strategic projects.”
“We can use Attivio AIE here,
we could use it there, and we
could use it everywhere!”
Business Intelligence Case Study:
Leading Global Manufacturer