Subaru has chosen to implement Informatica’s AI-powered Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) to enable the automaker to drive a global-scale data integration project.
The Japanese firm was faced with siloed data and utilization issues in 2019 with each department and operation handling data in isolated systems which resulted in disparate data.
In 2020, Subaru launched their global PLM (product lifecycle management) project with an aim to consolidate data from business-critical processes, from vehicle development to production and after-sales maintenance, and develop a company-wide data integration platform to connect, track and share trusted data across their departments.
The data integration platform supporting the global PLM project was completed in 2022 and went “live” in production that year, enabling lifetime data such as vehicle development to manufacturing, sales and maintenance, to customer IDs and other information to be seamlessly linked.
“With the help of Informatica, we are able to connect, integrate and strengthen our data linkage as early as technical development and design stages, and thus improve the quality of our car manufacturing,” said Kentaro Ichikawa, chief of the Data Management and Utilisation Promotion Department at Subaru.
Informatica’s AI-powered IDMC platform and its cloud data integration and catalog capabilities enable Subaru to curate data from its development, procurement, manufacturing, sales and maintenance services on a global scale to drive business insights from reliable and trustworthy data.
The low-code/no-code environment within IDMC also enables Subaru to scale its data integration through automation and eliminate data silos to allow users to drive greater data visibility across business functions from their business intelligence (BI) tool.
As of now, about 400 data assets have been cataloged and Subaru plans to expand the range of users who use the data integration platform in their daily work through BI tools in the future.
“Subaru’s decision to move to a single, AI-powered cloud data management platform with a consumption-based pricing model allowed them to advance at their own pace and remain flexible and adaptive to their business environment and needs,” said Taito Kozawa, country panager and president of Informatica Japan.
