ABN AMRO Insurance | Netherlands

As a financial organization, data plays a key role in ABN AMRO Verzekeringen’s day-to-day business. Therefore, the company’s data organization is under constant pressure to provide reliable, frequent, and up-to-date data to different internal and external stakeholders including regulators such as the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM).
With the data virtualization capabilities of the Denodo Platform, data is accessed virtually, and without replication. The size, location, and technology of the source systems matter much less when accessing data through the Denodo Platform. ABN AMRO Verzekeringen can now flexibly combine data from both the on-premises and cloud systems and present it to the business users in real time. Moreover, the data catalog capability of the Denodo Platform enabled ABN AMRO to create an easily accessible data portal.

Air EuropaAirline | Spain

Air Europa, a Spanish airline carrier based in Mallorca, is the airline division of the Globalia tourism group and is a full member of the SkyTeam alliance. The carrier operates scheduled and charter services from its operating bases in Madrid, Barcelona, and Tenerife South, to domestic and international destinations. In 2019, the Air Europa carried 13 million passengers.
Air Europa went the data virtualization route, and implemented the Denodo Platform to aggregate data from the source systems, including the data warehouse to provide a single point of access for all data. Denodo’s vendor agnostic and technology independent platform enabled Air Europa to save significant cost and efforts in data integration. With its data catalog, the Denodo Platform enabled Air Europa to democratize access to data and provide real time data.

Indiana University Education | USA

Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana that has a combined student body of more than 110,000 students. They had recently begun a Decision Support Initiative (DSI), to close the gaps between the abundance of available data and the people whose decisions will help Indiana University achieve its goals.

With its data virtualization capabilities, the Denodo Platform enabled IU to build out a logical data warehouse, which can connect to a wide variety of modern data sources, such as cloud sources, without requiring physical replication. It also establishes a central point for managing intercampus authentication and governance. Through the new BI infrastructure, IU successfully created powerful, real-time visualizations, enabled self-service data discovery, supplied grass-roots data governance, and turned the tide towards better decision making.

Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) Financial Services | South Africa

The JSE, founded in 1887, is the largest stock exchange in Africa. It ranks as one of the 20 largest stock exchanges in the world by market capitalization. The JSE has operated as a marketplace for the trading of financial products for over 120 years.

The JSE maintains over 180 disparate data sources across its data landscape. Additionally, over 120 different applications need to operate in perfect harmony to ensure that there is accurate settlement. To consolidate its intricate data landscape and aggregate data in real time, the JSE implemented the Denodo Platform, a data integration and data management solution built on data virtualization, to build a logical data layer. All of the relevant information sourced from these systems is compiled into base views on the Denodo Platform. The JSE has built more than 1,700 base views on top of these data sources, which are processed by transformation rules to produce derived and interface views. The data integration layer processes about 2 billion rows a month at the JSE.

NNSA Pantex Public Sector | USA

Pantex Plant is the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) production integrator and provider of nuclear deterrent for the Department of Defense. NNSA established the PRIDE program to securely deliver weapon product lifecycle information to users spread across different sites in North America.

Pantex was extracting the necessary data from an Oracle database, copying it to a spreadsheet, and emailing it to the lab, where it was manually entered into a manufacturing resource planning (MRP) system. Pantex deployed the Denodo Platform, which uses data virtualization to present a normalized view of the as-built component data to members of the laboratory team. The Denodo Platform provides a real-time view of the necessary data as a secure SOAP web service, which can be quickly and easily accessed by laboratory engineers.

General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI) Insurance | Saudi Arabia

The General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI), as a government entity, was established in 2001 in Saudi Arabia to implement the provisions of social insurance law to achieve compulsory insurance coverage, collecting contributions from employers and paying benefits for eligible contributors and family members. GOSI maintains administrative and financial independence under the supervision of a 13-member board of directors.

GOSI leveraged the Denodo Platform to create a logical semantic data access layer that gathers data from all the data sources and makes it available to consuming applications, taking care of all the heavy lifting and data transformation. Because the Denodo Platform is a unified data access layer, it also facilitates the implementation of centralized governance, security, and on-the-fly data masking. GOSI also leverages the Denodo Platform to create services that are used by other government institutions.

Logitech Technology | Switzerland

This Swiss global provider of personal computer and tablet accessories has its headquarters in Switzerland and California. The company develops and markets computer peripheral for PCs and other digital products. Their products include keyboards, mice, trackballs, microphones, webcams and bluetooth speakers. In 2019, the company reported a revenue of $2.8 billion with its 7,000 employees.

The Denodo Platform has also freed Logitech business users to become “tool agnostic,” since all tools tap into the same unified view of the data. Through rapid prototyping and the optimal usage of resources, the platform has significantly reduced operational expenses by avoiding costly post-production fixes.

TransAlta Utility | Canada

TransAlta, founded in 1909, has grown to become an energy producer with over 2300 employees, approximately $3 billion in annual revenue, more than $9 billion in assets, and over 60 gas, hydro, solar, wind, and coal facilities across the U.S., Canada, and Australia.

Besides the cloud migration, the Denodo Platform provided TransAlta with additional ongoing benefits. TransAlta leveraged the Denodo Platform as a virtual data mart in support of the company’s energy trading system. This enabled TransAlta to avoid having to implement costly ETL processes while also providing near-real-time data access for energy trading. With the Denodo Platform in place, TransAlta’s Wind Operations Group can make real-time decisions about mitigating icing risk by pulling machines offline versus letting them produce more power. The Denodo Platform also enabled TransAlta to create an HR dashboard that draws on data from SAP BW, HANA, SQL Server, and Active Directory to produce unique, integrated, 360-degree views of every manager.

National Services Scotland Healthcare | Scotland

National Services Scotland (NSS) delivers healthcare-related services as a national board of Scotland’s broader National Health Service (NHS). Comprised of over 3,500 employees, NSS provides critical data, in the form of management information and business intelligence (BI), to over 10,000 users across NHS Scotland and the general Scottish population.

With the logical data warehouse in place, NSS achieved its vision of a faster, more efficient, and more agile data infrastructure that would accelerate new-project development. New projects include an enhanced cancer intelligence platform; a persons-at-risk dataset, for use by local authorities and government agencies in times of emergency; a national radiology dashboard; and a national finance platform for NHS Scotland, integrating data from existing procurement, finance, workforce and activity data to present a single finance view.

Statistics Netherlands Technology | Netherlands

Unlike many other countries, The Netherlands entrusts Statistics Netherlands (known in the Netherlands as Centraal Bureau de Statistiek (CBS) to manage its national statistics and was founded in 1899. In recent years, when the company saw increasing demand for timely, highly detailed, and customer-tailored statistics, Statistics Coordinator Data Service Centrum at Statistics Netherlands turned to the Denodo Platform.

Supported by the Denodo Platform, Statistics Netherlands established a new data architecture that improves data access for all users, and accelerates the performance of statistics-delivering applications. With this new architecture, Statistics Netherlands was able to leverage shipping data from the UN to create real-time visualizations and dashboards monitoring the state of the economy, and to enable universities to measure the success of graduates using myriad filters and data sources, without ever seeing the identity of individual students, which was a legal requirement.

Swiss Re Group Insurance | Switzerland

The Swiss Re Group is a leading wholesale provider of reinsurance, insurance, and other insurance-based forms of risk transfer. Founded in 1863, Swiss Re operates through offices in more than 30 countries. Swiss Re was ranked 118th in Forbes’ 2000 Global Leading Companies of 2016. Swiss Re is based out of Zurich, Switzerland, and generated $43.3M in revenue in 2019 with 13,189 worldwide employees.

The Denodo Platform uses data virtualization to combine data from a variety of Swiss Re data sources in real time. It established a unified data services layer based on OData standards and served the combined data to a variety of consuming applications, including web based portals and BI tools.
The Denodo Platform provides the critical 360° view that Swiss Re needed to provide to its underwriters, claims managers, business actuaries and other stakeholders, to improve and accelerate decision making. In addition to traditional data sources, it can also capture real-time data from transactional systems, external services like newsfeeds, and data for smart analytics.

SilverChain Healthcare | Australia

SilverChain is a 110-year-old not-for-profit organization. It assists over 103k people, and the company employs 4,100 health care professionals. It has more than 90,000 clients, and the company employs 4,000 health care professionals. SilverChain had an aging data architecture consisting of mostly on-premises legacy systems with no data stored in the cloud. There was no role played by the APIs in their data ecosystem.

The Denodo Platform was initially used to feed data into SilverChain’s HoloLens project, a system that leverages holography for remote medicine, but its use was later expanded to all the other major systems including Datix (the incident management system), DocuSign (medication info), and the new client portal. SilverChain used the Denodo Platform to build an interoperability layer that centralized the data delivery process.

“Denodo is a breakthrough technology for us. It makes our architecture more scalable and enables us to integrate a greater variety of data sources.”
Johan de Coning
Business Intelligence Manager

Seacoast Bank Financial Services | USA

Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida is one of the largest community banks headquartered in Florida. As of December 31, 2020, Seacoast had total consolidated assets of $8.3 billion with total deposits of $6.9 billion. The corporation has 97 branches and 15 subsidiaries.

With the logical data warehouse in place, Seacoast can now provide enterprise-wide self-service BI and develop interactive trend reports using modern reporting tools. With the logical data warehouse, information that used to take a day to deliver can now be delivered every five minutes. This significantly accelerated business decision making on a daily basis, leading to faster business transactions. Also, stakeholders can now view reports and run analytics through SaaS tools, apps, and mobile devices, streamlining the information flow.

“The Denodo Platform has significantly increased the speed of business at Seacoast Bank.”
Mark Blanchette
SVP, Director Business Technology and Data Management

Walmart Mexico Retail | Mexico

Walmart Mexico, also known as Walmex, is the largest division of Walmart outside the U.S. As of April 2021, Walmex operated 2,653 retail outlets in Mexico, under the Walmart Supercenter, Superama, Sam's Club, Bodega Aurrerá, Mi Bodega Aurrera, Walmart Express, and Bodega Aurrerá Express banners.

Walmex started using The Denodo Platform in 2019, which uses data virtualization to consolidate data systems in real time while increasing data visibility. The Denodo Platform enabled Walmex to immediately identify the required information without looking at different sources. The company gained significant savings, and that became more evident with the COVID-19 pandemic, when the organization's requirements grew more complex.

Autodesk Technology | USA

Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinational software corporation that makes software for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, education, media, and entertainment industries.

The Denodo Platform’s data virtualization capabilities enabled Autodesk to establish a logical data warehouse, capable of providing real-time access to data from the old and new systems, during the transition. Once the transformation was complete, the new logical warehouse architecture provided other, continuing benefits: By establishing a unified layer for accessing Autodesk’s disparate sources, it facilitated regulatory compliance, as well as collaboration between the business and IT. It also enabled near-real-time payment processing, which was just not possible before.

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Biomedical & Healthcare | USA

As two of the 27 institutes that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH) -- the nation’s medical research agency -- The National Cancer Institute (NCI) and National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), recently joined forces to execute on a project known as The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). The TCGA mission is to catalog the genetic mutations responsible for cancer using genome sequencing and bioinformatics.

The NIH used data virtualization to connect to the different sources of the genome data and periodically upload these data sets into the ICGC servers. The connectors within the data virtualization platform provided a normalized view of the patient and donor data stored in XML files, sample test results in Oracle and TCGA-ICGC mapping data in MySQL DB. Lastly, the scheduler within the data virtualization platform executed an FTP process once every quarter and then uploaded the files into the ICGC servers.

Biogen Biotechnology | USA

Biogen is a global biotechnology company, founded in 1978, with over $13B in revenue in 2020. Biogen Idec is a global leader in the discovery, development, manufacturing and commercialization of innovative therapies for various health issues such as multiple sclerosis (MS), lymphoma and rheumatoid arthritis. Biogen has multiple distributors globally that sells and distributes their drugs in 80 countries.

Biogen business analysts were manually collecting sales data from numerous internal and external sources, including wholesalers and distributors from around the world, which meant that it sometimes took several months just to integrate the necessary data for analysis. The Denodo Platform established a data virtualization layer that provided easier, faster access to stakeholders’ critical data.

Amgen Biotechnology | USA

Amgen is the world’s largest independent biotechnology firm, and sells a number of products to treat various health issues ranging from rheumatoid arthritis to cancer. In 2020, the company reported a revenue of $25.4 billion with its 22,000 employees.

The Denodo Platform provides Amgen with a constant flow of real-time manufacturing data, real-time human operations data, and real-time lab data, which helps Amgen to ensure that its pharmaceutical production plants are always running at full capacity and are continuously tuned for the highest possible production level for optimal yields. By implementing the Denodo Platform, Amgen increased overall yield by as much as 3%.

Anadarko Energy | USA

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation is an American petroleum and natural gas exploration and production company headquartered in two skyscrapers in The Woodlands, Texas. In addition to exploration and production, the company engages in petroleum and natural gas gathering, processing, treating, and transportation.

“The Denodo Platform has significantly changed the way we approach data, and the way we interact with users,” says Quinn Lewis, Anadarko’s integration and platform services manager. “[The new analytics infrastructure] provides a common, shared platform for IT and the business side. The platform balances that quick response with a managed, governed approach, in a shared environment.”

Asurion Insurance | USA

Asurion is a consumer electronics insurance and warranty provider that serves more than 300 million consumers globally across 18 countries. With it’s global 19,000 employees Asurion generates around $6B in annual revenue. Asurion added Premium Support Services, innovation in digital device and digital home management; that required data science and predictive analytics to offer better customer satisfaction.

Asurion had specific goals for enhancing the customer experience, including higher-touch, premium tech support, but to implement these initiatives, the company needed better predictive analytics and IoT capabilities, as well as better support for big data architecture. Leveraging the Denodo Platform, Asurion developed a new data infrastructure that provides data virtualization both on-premises and in the cloud.

BHP Energy | Australia

BHP is a global resources company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. It is among the world’s top producers of major commodities, including iron ore, metallurgical coal, and copper, and has substantial interests in oil and gas. BHP embarked on a new data strategy to transform itself into a data-centric organization and help the BHP management make better data-driven decisions. As part of that strategy, BHP wanted to create an asset-centric data architecture that provided data utility, plumbing, and wiring foundations for individual business units, accelerating the delivery of new digital solutions, and providing a data environment for data science and advanced analytics.

BHP deployed a Denodo Platform cluster in every major geography where the company had a data center, including Australia, the United States, and Chile, effectively establishing a logical data fabric across these diverse regions.

Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) Printing | Japan

Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) works with a wide range of print media, including books, packing, photomask and thermal transfer printing. It has worked on many fronts to become a fully digital organization, with a corporate goal of “conveying all information smoothly.”

The Denodo Platform enables DNP Marketing Cloud® to build systems for swiftly processing and utilizing large volumes of client data. The service is now being offered to other companies. Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) is mainly comprised of three divisions: Information Communication, Lifestyle and Industrial Supplies, and Electronics. The Information Communication Division engages in publishing and information innovation, which includes marketing and information security, and imaging communication, which includes photo printing.

Get Telecommunications | Norway

Get is a Norwegian telecommunications provider with over a million customers. The company provides broadband, mobile, and television services, and for years the company has distributed television content using a traditional linear consumption model.

By leveraging the Denodo Platform to establish a multi-purpose data-access layer using data virtualization, Get is able to provide analysts with integrated data drawn from across multiple departments and touch-points, fast enough to support better, faster business decisions. This accelerated Get’s entire development cycle. The Denodo Platform was instrumental in helping the sales team to better know each individual customer, which, in turn, enabled Get to design more personalized products that keep customers engaged and loyal.

“After implementing the Denodo Platform, our development cycles were significantly accelerated.”
Michael Besin Hansen
Head of Data Systems

Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) National Government | Italy

The Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), a public research organization, is the main producer of official statistics in the service of citizens and policy-makers. It operates independently and regularly interacts with the academic and scientific communities. Since 1989, Istat has been directing, coordinating, and providing technical assistance and training within the National Statistical System (Sistan).

Starting with the data integration logic of administrative and survey data sources, Istat implemented a new data infrastructure across the entire organization. The new infrastructure, built on the Denodo Platform, redefined the process of data acquisition, data processing, and data governance. The new infrastructure leverages data virtualization to integrate data in real time, without replicating data. By making it easier and faster to access, manage, manipulate, and deliver data, the Denodo Platform enabled ISTAT to seamlessly implement the register-based analytics (RAF) framework.