CUSTOMER STORIES
Enhancing fleet safety in real-time
CARTO was a game-changer because it let us bring geospatial analysis directly to our Snowflake data without moving it. We built a real-time, interactive map of our fleet - moving beyond static dashboards to visuals everyone can understand. This helped us immediately identify and respond to driver impacts during storms, replacing manual tick sheets that took over an hour to compile. CARTO transformed how we visualize and act on our spatial data; now it’s immediate.
Jeff Walters
Senior Director, Business Analytics at Werner Enterprises
CARTO was a game-changer because it let us bring geospatial analysis directly to our Snowflake data without moving it. We built a real-time, interactive map of our fleet - moving beyond static dashboards to visuals everyone can understand. This helped us immediately identify and respond to driver impacts during storms, replacing manual tick sheets that took over an hour to compile. CARTO transformed how we visualize and act on our spatial data; now it’s immediate.
Jeff Walters
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Senior Director, Business Analytics at Werner Enterprises
The Client
Werner Enterprises
Werner Enterprises is the 6th largest dedicated carrier in the United States and a leader in transportation and logistics. Operating over 4,800 dedicated tractors and managing more than 28,000 trailing assets, Werner employs a highly skilled workforce, including drivers with military experience and a growing percentage of women drivers. The company maintains a strong focus on safety, service, and sustainability, with a goal to reduce emissions by 55% by 2035.
The Challenge
Overcoming data fragmentation and visibility gaps
Werner’s operational complexity posed significant challenges: data was siloed across five warehouses, limiting quick analysis and decision-making. The absence of real-time visual insights on fleet status and location hampered responsiveness, while manual reporting processes delayed critical safety and operational updates. Additionally, performing geospatial analysis required time-consuming data transfers to separate GIS environments, increasing costs and risking inaccuracies.
Results
Real-time insights driving safer, smarter decisions
By adopting CARTO’s spatial analytics platform integrated natively with Snowflake, Werner achieved:
Unified data access: Eliminated silos with direct integration to Snowflake, streamlining workflows.
Live fleet visualization: Real-time interactive maps provide clear status and location data.
Proactive risk management: Dynamic weather overlays and geofencing enable timely alerts to affected drivers.
Informed real estate planning: Spatial analysis drives strategic terminal and drop yard placement decisions.
These improvements have enhanced situational awareness, accelerated response times, and increased operational efficiency.
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Why CARTO?
Native, scalable spatial analytics
CARTO proved to be the ideal partner for Werner for several reasons:
Seamless integration: Runs natively within Snowflake, ensuring data never leaves the platform and maintaining security and integrity,
Scalability: Handles millions of records efficiently, matching Werner’s large-scale operations.
User-friendly interface: Intuitive tools make geospatial insights accessible to both technical and business teams.
Collaborative platform: Enables teams across departments to work together using a single source of truth.
CARTO empowered Werner to unlock the full potential of their location data and drive smarter logistics operations.
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A cloud-native approach
CARTO is the Location Intelligence platform built to run natively within your Snowflake AI Data Cloud. This seamless integration eliminates GIS data silos, enabling you to transform spatial analysis into actionable business insights directly inside your Snowflake environment.
CARTO’s platform eliminates slow and ungovernable ETL processes, and ensures enterprise-grade speed, scalability and security. Your geospatial teams gain native access to the full power of Snowflake’s scalable, multi-cluster architecture - including Apache Iceberg tables, Snowpark data engineering & ML and Cortex AI. CARTO extends Snowflake’s capabilities with rich geospatial visualizations, an advanced Analytics Toolbox, low-code design and automation, and app development tools - all available as a native app via the Snowflake Marketplace.
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