Using Data Intelligence: How Organizations are Achieving Success
Actian Corporation
February 24, 2025

Successful businesses don’t just rely on data—they depend on trusted, integrated, and immediately accessible data to fuel confident decision-making, optimize operations, and accelerate results. From streamlining processes and enhancing customer experiences to achieving strategic goals faster, organizations across industries are realizing the transformative power of a data intelligence platform.
The Actian Zeenea Data Intelligence Platform is designed to solve data challenges and improve business outcomes with self-service data access and simplified data discovery. These capabilities enable users to quickly find and access the data assets they need.
By connecting data silos, improving visibility into data, and enabling users to locate, trust, and leverage their data, a data intelligence platform drives new levels of success across diverse industries. In fact, Actian customers are doing just that—achieving outcomes with confidence.
The Need for Data Intelligence: More Than Just Storage
Modern enterprises generate massive amounts of data every day. While they probably have a solution to cost-effectively store it, storing data isn’t the same as making it useful. Many organizations continue to struggle with:
- Siloed and fragmented data across multiple sources and departments.
- A lack of trust and visibility into their data assets.
- Regulatory compliance pressures requiring stringent data governance.
- Inconsistent data definitions leading to misalignment across teams.
- Limited self-service data access that forces a reliance on IT teams.
Without a unified platform to organize, govern, and unlock the value of data, organizations risk inefficiencies, lost opportunities, and compliance violations. Actian solves this by delivering a centralized data intelligence platform that empowers business users, IT teams, and data professionals alike to access, discover, and use data assets without requiring advanced technical skills. Modern businesses are putting data intelligence into action and reaping the rewards.
Driving Data-Driven Innovation in Insurance
For global insurance leader Generali, managing sensitive customer data while ensuring regulatory compliance across multiple countries is a critical priority. However, disparate systems and a lack of clarity in data ownership hindered its ability to fully leverage data assets.
- The Solution. By deploying the Actian Zeenea Data Catalog, Generali created a one-stop shop for its data needs to improve compliance, accountability, and collaboration.
- The Impact. Generali’s teams now have streamlined regulatory processes and increased stakeholder engagement in data-driven initiatives.
- The Result. As an agile, data-driven insurance provider, Generali better understands its data assets to streamline compliance, manage large datasets at scale, and drive sustainable business value.
Unifying Freight Data for a Global Cargo Company
With a network across more than 100 countries and over 300 destinations, Lufthansa Cargo needed a way to connect fragmented systems and integrate data from multiple sources in real-time, on a single platform.
- The Solution. The Actian Zeenea Data Catalog created a single source of truth. The user-friendly solution enables business and IT teams to collaborate seamlessly.
- The Impact. Lufthansa Cargo centralized its analytics and BI data, enabling decisions that improve logistics, reduce inefficiencies, and enhance operational agility.
- The Result. A fully data-driven air cargo business that is well-positioned to meet its 2025 digital transformation goals.
Powering Smart Travel Using Integrated Data
With millions of passengers relying on real-time travel information, SNCF Connect & Tech needed a way to organize, access, and trust its vast data assets. Its data was scattered across Excel files, Wiki pages, and other systems, making it difficult for teams to leverage information effectively.
- The Solution: The Actian Zeenea Data Intelligence Platform consolidated data assets, creating a centralized, easy-to-navigate solution for data discovery.
- The Impact: Employees can quickly find and use trusted data to inform planning, identify strategic KPIs, and improve customer experiences.
- The Result: A seamless digital travel experience for millions of users, backed by reliable, real-time data.
Turning Data into Housing Solutions
Managing more than 74,000 properties and 130,000 tenants, German housing leader Gewobag needed a better way to handle its growing data complexity. From sustainability initiatives to predictive maintenance, leveraging data is key to long-term success.
- The Solution. The Actian Zeenea Data Intelligence Platform enabled Gewobag to map relationships between datasets, improve transparency, and introduce self-service tools.
- The Impact. Teams now have a better understanding of data quality, accessibility, and usability, allowing for better energy efficiency, forecasting, and decision-making.
- The Result. Data-driven housing management that supports sustainable urban development.
Taking a Modern Approach to Safer Roads
As one of Europe’s largest toll motorway operators, Autostrade per l’Italia set a goal for a digital transformation that entailed leveraging data, modernizing its technology ecosystem, and moving to the cloud. It needed to address inefficient workflows that created operational risks, which could have been solved by standardizing processes.
- The Solution. The Actian Zeenea Data Intelligence Platform and data catalog utilized metadata and data governance tools to solve data challenges and support modernization.
- The Impact. The company democratizes data, views data as an asset, and replaces manual processes with automation—enabling a level of automation that’s about 90%.
- The Result. An intelligent, data-driven approach to ensure safer roads, with more business users now leveraging the data catalog.
How Our Data Intelligence Platform Delivers Transformative Results
The future of business belongs to those who can locate, access, and share their data effectively. Whether organizations are in financial services, transportation, retail, manufacturing, or another industry, the Actian Zeenea Data Intelligence Platform is the key to making smarter, faster, and more confident decisions.
The platform enables:
- A centralized data hub that breaks down silos and unifies data sources.
- Enhanced data discoverability to enable teams to quickly find and trust data.
- Operational efficiency by reducing manual work and improving data governance.
- Strategic decision-making with self-service data access for business users.
- Scalability and compliance to support regulatory needs and business growth.
By modernizing how companies manage, access, and use their data, the data intelligence platform drives efficiency, innovation, and competitive advantage. See how it transforms data strategies. Take the interactive tour.
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