Macnica Supports Yokogawa Electric Corporation 's Data Democratization and Platform Integration in Software Development - Building a flexible and speedy development environment with cloud-based integrated data utilization platform "Databricks" -

Macnica (Headquarters: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, President: Yokogawa Electric Corporation Kazumasa Hara, hereinafter Macnica) is a total Services & Solutions provider in semiconductors, networks, cybersecurity, and AI/IoT. Yokogawa Musashino City, President: Hisashi Nara, Yokogawa Electric Corporation today announced that it has supported the aggregation, integration, and utilization of data in software development by providing cloud-based integrated data utilization platform "Databrix". We will make an announcement.

■ Background
With the control business as its main business, Yokogawa Electric Corporation has provided distributed control systems that control and monitor the operation of plant production equipment, and has supported the development of various industries. We develop various software related to plant control. The Development DX Promotion Department of the System Development Center has a policy of "realizing a flexible and speedy development environment by linking development and operations" in order to respond to the recent large-scale development. Based on this policy, Databricks was adopted with the aim of introducing an integrated data utilization platform for analyzing various data generated in the development process and "democratizing data" in which all members can utilize data. I decided to do it.

■ Reasons for choosing “Databricks”
Databricks combines the advantages of a "data warehouse" and a "data lake", and is a cloud-type integrated data that can be prepared in an all-in-one environment for data acquisition, preprocessing such as conversion, analysis, visualization, AI model development, etc. It is the basis for utilization. The decisive factors for adopting Databricks at Yokogawa Electric Corporation are as follows.
・ Data can be analyzed in notebook format used by employees in charge of infrastructure maintenance, and can be used in a managed environment
・ Since data distributed within the company can be aggregated and integrated on the cloud, the hurdles to use are low and scale-out (increasing the number of servers to increase the processing capacity of the system) is easy.
・ Solid track record and reliability in open source development
・ Since the necessary data can be provided in a form that follows the access authority to the data source, the governance of data utilization can be strengthened.

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■ Effects of introduction
About a month after the introduction of Databricks, Yokogawa Electric Corporation was able to build a platform that could integrate and utilize data that had been dispersed throughout the company. Furthermore, since the data lake can be accessed directly from the BI tool and dashboards can be created, there is no longer a need to perform processing prior to data analysis as was done in the past, which greatly reduced man-hours. In addition, by enabling real-time direct processing of data, it is now possible for anyone to effectively utilize data when necessary.

■ Future development
At Yokogawa Electric Corporation, which incorporates BI tools into new employee training as part of its internal data utilization training, the use of Databricks is in line with its policy of "increasing the number of personnel capable of data analysis." In the future, we plan to expand Databricks to the creation of AI models to improve productivity.

Regarding this support, Toshifumi Sasa, President of Databricks Japan Co., Ltd., said:
"We are very pleased to be able to support Yokogawa Electric Corporation 's digital transformation through the Lakehouse platform we provide, together with our strategic partner Macnica. Active use of 'data and AI' is required. Extracting business-value insights from data integration, management, and analysis, as well as AI, while reducing TCO and governance are directly linked to the competitiveness of today's companies. Based on our strong partnership with Macnica, we will support the utilization of 'data and AI' by many Japanese companies and work toward further 'democratization of data and AI' in Japan."

Macnica provided hands-on support during the implementation and analysis process to support the introduction of Databricks. We will continue to support Japanese companies in promoting their business through data utilization by leveraging our detailed technical support and support capabilities that are close to our customers.

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