Japanese automobile manufacturer Subaru has consolidated data from business processes, including development, procurement, manufacturing, sales, and maintenance services, to improve manufacturing processes.
This allows the company to connect, track, and share data across departments.
It improves manufacturing processes and enhances employee productivity and customer experience with better product quality and service.
Subaru has implemented Informatica’s AI-powered Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) platform.
Subaru Corporation’s chief of data management and utilization promotion department, Kentaro Ichikawa, said with the help of Informatica, the company can connect, integrate, and strengthen data linkage to improve the quality of car manufacturing.
As an AI-powered data management platform, Informatica has helped in data integration, and enhanced employees’ productivity level and customer experience, Ichikawa added.
The low-code/no-code environment within IDMC enables the company to scale data integration through automation and eliminate data silos.
It allows users to drive data visibility across business functions from business intelligence (BI) tools.
As of now, approximately 400 data assets have been cataloged.
The company plans to expand the range of users who utilise the data integration platform in their daily work through the BI tool.
Informatica Japan’s country manager and president, Taito Kozawa, said Subaru’s decision to move to a single, AI-powered cloud data management platform with a consumption-based pricing model allowed the company to advance at its own pace.
Informatica has helped Subaru solve upstream and downstream data challenges and helped users across the organisation to drive business insights, Kozawa added.
In 2019, the company’s departments used to manage information in isolated systems, leading to fragmented data.
To address this, the automaker launched a global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) project in 2020 for data consolidation.
By 2022, it had developed and implemented a data integration platform, enabling the connection, tracking, and sharing of data across departments.