Lockheed Martin drives digital transformation with Collibra

Mohr and his team partnered with Collibra to build out an internal marketplace and make its information assets more accessible. The goal was to quickly populate the marketplace with as much data as possible, so business analysts could immediately derive value from it. In the first instance, the team on-boarded all of the content from its SAP Hana architecture as well as its TIBCO Logical Data Warehouse. “We found that immediately gave us about 75-80% coverage of data in our analytic architecture, which was a great place to start,” says Mohr.

Building a critical mass of data meant that analysts and data scientists were drawn to the marketplace for their data. The next step was to onboard Tableau reports so users could share their insights. “Tableau’s availability within Collibra has been key to engaging with business users. They can immediately share their reports and show where the data in those reports has come from, even down to specific calculations,” says Mohr.

With the company’s journey towards data intelligence well underway, the next leg will involve bringing in information assets from other parts of the business and onboarding more systems, including the company’s AWS and Hadoop architectures.

Its initial implementation has focused on Lockheed Martin’s largest business unit – Aeronautics – but the company has three other such units that stand to benefit from this initial groundwork. Mohr notes that the Aeronautics division’s information marketplace has already helped consolidate operational silos, promote better governance, reduce duplication of efforts and eliminate manual dependencies. Bringing other business units on board can enable those benefits to be realized across the enterprise.