Haulotte
French lifting equipment leader Haulotte uses DataGalaxy to centralize its data knowledge company-wide.
customer overview
Haulotte
Haulotte is a European leader of lifting equipment that designs, manufactures, and markets a wide range of aerial work platforms.
The group has defined three major strategic axes: Become a blue company, transform into a full solution provider, and the achieve status as a best-in class service level agreement provider on the market.
Industry: Industry and Manufacturing
Headquarters: Lorette, France
Workforce: 1,500+ employees
Financials: Turnover of €496M in 2022
Strategy:
- Develop the group’s local strategy
- Utilize professional and and user-friendly
tools - Offer secure and environmentally conscious
solutions
Datagalaxy has allowed us to have a centralized data documentation that is easy to use and enables us to answer customer questions in real time.
Xavier Macé
Haulotte Digital Innovation Lab Associate
mission
Haulotte launched a strategy to own the use of its data. The roadmap to achieve this focused on four key pillars:
Knowledge
Governance
Quality
Regulatory compliance
just the facts
The implementation of the Haulotte data catalog focused on:
- Starting small: Start with a small perimeter
- Identifying opportunities: Add projects to the data catalog one at a time
- Iteration: Grow the data catalog without trying to fill everything at once
The project methodology addressed the following:
- Start with a well-known scope
- Build up the data catalog as opportunities arise
- Document all new projects in the data catalog
The Haulotte technology stack
Azure Data Lake Gen2
SQL Server
IBM DataStage