Manitou

Manitou Group uses DataGalaxy to transform their data from a liability to an organizational asset

Overview

Manitou group is a worldwide reference in handling, access platforms, and earth-moving. Its mission is to improve working conditions, safety, and performance throughout the world while protecting people and their environment. Through innovation and creating value for its stakeholders, the group affirms its ambition to always do better, be a driver of change, and contribute to moving the world.

To make this approach a success, team support must not be minimized. Users must be supported because this translates into a change in processes. In addition, you have to start the process, make mistakes, and correct but move forward with an iterative approach.

Strategic challenges

Manitou deployed a data governance unit to ensure ownership and control of the organization’s processes for managing data as a business asset. The Manitou roadmap focused on three key pillars:

Knowledge
Quality
Protection

The Data Knowledge Catalog implementation process

During their search for a data catalog, DataGalaxy was chosen for several reasons:

Exceed customers expectations with value-added services

Drive the green transition for a sustainable business model

Boost performance with streamlined operations

Build success on one united team

The project methodology addressed the following:

Sharing: Share the knowledge around the data
Collaborate: Create a collaborative system to enrich the data knowledge
Support: Provide continuous support for users during times of change
Internalization: Ensure that data governance is integrated into the company’s project processes

If Manitou Group had one piece of advice, it would be: Don’t wait to have everything you need to start your data governance project – Try, make mistakes, and correct!

Technology stack

Oracle

Talend

Power BI

Azure Data Lake Gen 1 & 2

SQL Server