With big data’s privacy and security concerns becoming more topical under new regulatory requirements, industries not typically involved in tech recognize the need for compliant platforms to maintain and analyze data. When the German Federal Police, Bundespolizei, began working with Pentaho to manage data processes, they found even greater benefits than information safety.

“As part of Federal German Ministry of Interior, the police are responsible for many demanding and varied tasks like air control … rail patrol, water control, crime reduction, and patrolling the high seas,” said Michael Becker (pictured, left), senior chief inspector for the Bundespolizei. With this range of disciplines and over 200 district, regional and local offices employing 41,000 people, the Bundespolizei have discovered a greater level of efficiency with Pentaho.

Michael Becker and Henry Liebrenz  (pictured, right), police sergeant for the German Federal Police, spoke with Rebecca Knight (@knightrm) and James Kobielus (@jameskobielus), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during PentahoWorld in Orlando, Florida. They discussed the range of Pentaho’s utility for customers, and how it’s improved processes within the Bundespolizei and adjacent federal agencies. (* Disclosure below.)

‘Pentaho was definitely a game changer for us’

Before discovering Pentaho, Becker and Liebrenz were using to Excel for their data processing needs, limiting their ability to extract quality analysis on big data. “Pentaho was definitely a game changer for us. Before we didn’t have the chance to build something like this … but that was our entrance into building a strategy,” Liebrenz said.

Pentaho gave the Bundespolizei data accessibility, and enabled them to take action on it for the benefit of the organization at large. After coordinating with other departments internally, Becker and Liebrenz were able to implement the tool to find real solutions and improve efficiency. “One main application is our time planning tool. Now [it’s possible to plan] all the shifts for agencies in one case that we build on this platform,” Liebrenz said.

As the Bundespolizei realized more use cases for the platform, Pentaho also proved helpful in scaling. “We started this year with the enterprise, and had only one day for integration with the community server of the new enterprise server. [But it was] no problem,” Becker said.

With all that they’ve learned using the data management tool, Becker and Liebrenz are excited to share best practices and help improve processes at other federal agencies in Germany. “We have learned from Pentaho that everything is possible,” Becker concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of PentahoWorld. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for PentahoWorld. Neither Hitachi Vantara, the event sponsor, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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