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AmeriCredit Creates a Single Source of Reference for Key Information Assets using CA ERwin®
Providing financing solutions indirectly through auto dealers across the United States
Business Impact Summary
Business:
AmeriCredit Corp. is a leading independent automobile finance company that provides financing solutions indirectly through auto dealers across the United States. AmeriCredit has approximately 900,000 customers and approximately $10 billion in auto receivables. The Company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas.
Challenge:
Supporting approximately 5,000 producing dealers nationwide, AmeriCredit has created a data warehouse of critical business information relating to credit, payments, applications, and collections. The data warehouse provides a ‘single source of truth’ for credit information which is critical for business efficiency and compliance regulation.
Solution:
Combining CA ERwin’s data modeling, model management, and reporting capabilities, AmeriCredit was able to create a single source of record for critical business definitions and share standardized metadata with both business and technical users.
Result:
Having a single source of record increased data quality, reduced development time, and helped provide efficient knowledge transfer for new employees joining the team.
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