Case Study: Yamaha upskills 1,500+ employees with KNIME

How Yamaha upskilled 1,500+ employees to learn data science

Yamaha needed to strengthen data skills across its global organization so more employees could work with data and support faster, more informed decision-making. With limited internal data science capacity and high demand for analytics expertise, the company turned to KNIME Analytics Platform to help employees learn data science and analytics from scratch.

KNIME helped Yamaha build an in-house upskilling program using its low-code, no-code platform, training resources, and collaboration tools such as KNIME Server/KNIME Business Hub. The result was a company-wide data literacy boost: more than 1,500 employees were trained, 511 attended live instructor-led courses, KNIME was running on over 1,200 computers, and Yamaha reduced dependence on its small data science team while enabling data-driven work across product planning, development, manufacturing, services, and marketing.

Yamaha

Hokuto Fujii

Data Science Strategy Lead