Honda Motorcycle and Power Equipment (MPE), a high-profile Australian national company, faced a significant challenge in preventing sensitive data leakages and protecting its user’s access to the Internet. As part of the global Honda brand, Honda MPE had to meet Honda’s global network security standards. The company had experienced several data leakage incidents and needed to control and protect the Internet usage by its staff to ensure that sensitive data was not leaked outside the organization. The IT department at Honda MPE, led by Senior Manager Craig Bassett, was tasked with finding a balance between flexibility and security. They needed a solution that would not restrict their staff from performing their roles but would protect them and Honda from any malicious intent.

Honda was focused on commercializing services that create new value through the visualization and analysis of a huge volume of location data. They were developing BtoB data analysis services based on motion data captured from Honda’s own car navigation system, Internavi. However, they faced issues with processing time series location data with a time history. The huge volume of data stored in the cloud data was not being fully coped with, not only with Excel but even with BI tools.

Honda Motor Company, Ltd. is a Japanese public multinational conglomerate manufacturer of automobiles, motorcycles, and power equipment, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.Honda has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, reaching a production of 400 million by the end of 2019,as well as the world's largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines measured by volume, producing more than 14 million internal combustion engines each year. Honda became the second-largest Japanese automobile manufacturer in 2001. In 2015, Honda was the eighth largest automobile manufacturer in the world.Honda was the first Japanese automobile manufacturer to release a dedicated luxury brand, Acura, in 1986. Aside from their core automobile and motorcycle businesses, Honda also manufactures garden equipment, marine engines, personal watercraft, power generators, and other products. Since 1986, Honda has been involved with artificial intelligence/robotics research and released their ASIMO robot in 2000. They have also ventured into aerospace with the establishment of GE Honda Aero