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Operational excellence in automotive distribution requires real-time visibility without the latency of traditional data movement. The Denodo Platform on AWS has empowered us to achieve real-time data access through a single, unified semantic layer for the entire data estate.”

Senior Manager, Information Management

 





 

Over decades of growth, this large-scale regional vehicle-and-parts distributor has evolved into a logistical powerhouse, processing hundreds of thousands of vehicles annually through its extensive vehicle processing centers and parts distribution hubs.

**Moving to a Modern Cloud-Based Data Infrastructure**

Through these years of growth, the distributor also started to come up against the limitations of a mainframe-based data infrastructure that had been supporting the company for over 30 years. Data access was both time-consuming and complex, inhibiting [data self-service](https://www.denodo.com/en/solutions/by-use-case/data-self-service-data-democratization) by business users and hindering overall agility. So the company moved to AWS and leveraged the Denodo Platform to serve as an AI data layer above the entire infrastructure.

With the [Denodo Platform](https://www.denodo.com/en/denodo-platform/denodo-platform) on AWS, the distributor was able to streamline and accelerate access to all data, while facilitating compliance and data governance. In addition, the company gained new forecasting capabilities, accelerated time-to-insight, and built a system for provisioning parts and vehicle inventory data over APIs, in real time, for increased revenue.