Data intelligence in Action: Actian success stories

Traditional centralized data management creates bottlenecks, forcing business teams to constantly request data from IT, slowing decision-making and limiting organizational agility. Organizations struggle to balance empowering domain teams with maintaining governance standards and data quality across the enterprise. Actian Data Intelligence Platform enabled GEMA to decentralize data responsibility by creating data products that give teams ownership while maintaining centralized visibility—users can easily see what data products exist, understand where data originates, track how it’s used in visualizations, and know exactly who to contact with questions about specific data products.

Fragmented analytics data scattered across multiple systems prevents end users from finding and understanding the information they need for their use cases. Without proper documentation and discovery tools, business teams rely on data teams to locate, explain, and provide access to datasets, creating inefficiencies and delays. Actian Data Intelligence Platform helped Lufthansa Cargo centralize their analytics and BI data into a single solution where the Studio app enabled data transparency and clarity in documentation, while the Explorer app empowered end users to independently find the right data for their use cases—representing a significant competitive advantage.

Organizations struggle to democratize data access while maintaining security, quality standards, and regulatory compliance across the enterprise. Traditional top-down governance creates bureaucracy that frustrates users, while completely open access creates compliance risks and data quality issues. Actian Data Intelligence Platform enabled Gewobag to democratize data and promote a cultural shift toward data transparency and self-service by providing governed data access with clear ownership, comprehensive documentation, and flexible metamodel configuration, allowing users to independently discover and use data while maintaining appropriate controls and German-language support.

Every organization has unique data governance needs, regulatory requirements, and business contexts that generic tools cannot accommodate without expensive customization. Rigid platforms force teams to adapt their processes to the tool rather than configuring the tool to match their needs, reducing adoption and effectiveness. Actian Data Intelligence Platform offers exceptional flexibility, including cloud compatibility, customizable metamodel capabilities that enable organizations to create properties tailored to their specific context, and an agile approach that involves customers in managing the product roadmap—as demonstrated by SNCF Connect’s successful implementation with organization-specific configurations.

Top-down data governance programs often focus on IT control rather than empowering business functions, resulting in tools that data teams value but business users ignore. Without business adoption, data governance becomes a compliance checkbox rather than a driver of business value and transformation. Actian Data Intelligence Platform recognizes that only business functions can truly transform companies into data-driven organizations by providing an efficient, user-friendly data catalog that business teams actually want to use—as Autostrade per l’Italia discovered, it builds the bridge between business and data by being fast, complete, easy to understand from a business perspective, and agile, scalable, and continuously upgradeable from an IT perspective.