Overview
Hastings Deering, a Sime Darby Industrial company, is one of the largest Cat® dealers globally, supporting mining, construction, power systems, and marine customers. With 3,500+ employees across 26 business centres and operations spanning 17 countries, the organization needed a modern data foundation to deliver governed self-service analytics and real-time visibility across operational and financial domains.
Why Denodo
Hastings Deering selected Denodo to build a unified, governed Data Marketplace without duplicating data or disrupting existing ERP and operational systems. Denodo’s Logical Data Management approach provides real-time access, active metadata, and governed data products that scale across business functions.
Denodo enabled Hastings Deering to:
- Unify access to ERP, finance, and operational systems without replication
- Publish governed data products with clear lineage, ownership, and access policies
- Deliver a Data Marketplace that accelerates analytics and ensures consistent definitions
- Enable self-service access to trusted data directly through Power BI and Tableau
- Enforce federated governance across all operational and financial domains
This approach helped Hastings Deering accelerate ERP modernization, reduce integration effort, and create a scalable data foundation across the Sime Darby Industrial group.
Challenges
Hastings Deering’s legacy architecture limited agility and insight across the enterprise.
- Multiple ERP systems and data silos created duplication and inconsistent definitions
- Operational teams lacked real-time visibility into inventory, freight costs, and demand patterns
- Finance teams relied on manual reconciliations and delayed reporting cycles
- A small data team faced increasing demand from multiple departments
- Budget constraints required a modernization path without large-scale replatforming
Solution
To meet these needs, Hastings Deering set out to build a unified Data Marketplace that connected data virtually across ERP, finance, warehouse, and operational systems and delivered trusted, governed data products to every function.
With Denodo, Hastings Deering delivered:
- A real-time logical data layer integrating Microsoft Dynamics AX, SalesLink, and SQL Server Master Data Services without replication
- Governed data products published with lineage, ownership, and access policies through the Denodo Data Marketplace
- Self-service analytics through direct access from Power BI and Tableau
- Reusable data models that reduced duplication and standardized reporting across all dealerships
Distinct Use Cases Delivered
ERP Modernization Acceleration
The Data Marketplace accelerated transformation across the ERP program:
- 30% faster data mapping and transformation
- 25% reduction in time-to-market through repeatable integration patterns
- 2× resource cost savings
- Higher agility and stronger risk mitigation across enterprise operations
Parts Division
Data products such as Build-to-Stock BOMs, Aged Reservation, and Stock-on-Hand reports delivered real-time visibility into inventory and demand, improving planning accuracy and cost control.
Group Finance
The Finance Data Hub standardized financial reporting across dealerships, delivering consistent ROIC and cash-flow metrics and enabling near real-time month-end consolidation.
Benefits
- Enterprise-Wide Data Reuse and Faster Access
- Data access time reduced from weeks to days
- 70% of data assets are reused across business domains, reducing duplication and accelerating analytics delivery
- Federated Governance applied centrally through active metadata and unified semantics
- Modernization achieved without expanding the data team
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