Technology and Fleet Data Intelligence Frequently Asked Questions

• What is Holman Insights?

  Holman Insights is a powerful tool that allows you to consolidate all the data your fleet generates into a comprehensive and easy-to-navigate program. This allows you to optimally analyze and use this data to make important decisions for your fleet. The platform allows you to customize a dashboard, set key performance indicators (KPIs), and create reports so you can make decisions based on aggregated, real-time data. By making informed decisions, you can save money, minimize downtime, and create real value for your business.

• What is Holman Analytics?

  Holman Analytics uses state-of-the-art predictive analytics technology to help you make important decisions about the future of your fleet, such as when to retire vehicles or when to schedule repairs to minimize disruption to your operations. Based on patterns from the past, Holman Analytics can help fleet managers anticipate and plan disruptions that previously seemed random or unpredictable in order to ensure smoother operations while minimizing costs and downtime.

• What is fleet data?

  Fleet data includes all information about vehicles and drivers that an internal fleet manager or fleet management company can track, monitor, analyze and evaluate. Standard sources of fleet data include OEMs, equipment suppliers, maintenance providers and fuel suppliers. This data can include information about fuel consumption and mileage, data about driver behavior, maintenance and service requirements and records, and much more.

• What is telematics?

  Telematics devices can be installed in vehicle fleets to collect and transmit additional fleet data about where and how the vehicles are being operated. These devices can track movement, engine performance and driver behavior. The trend is increasingly toward OEMs installing telematics devices in their vehicles.

• How can Telematics affect my business?

  By installing telematics devices in your fleet vehicles or activating OEM telematics devices, you can collect important information about your drivers’ and vehicles’ performance. Overall, telematics data can point to problematic trends and opportunities for improvement. On an individual level, telematics can identify drivers who demonstrate dangerous behavior and should receive additional safety training, or vehicles that are out of service or need to be serviced more frequently than average, or driving habits that waste fuel. With the data from telematics, you can intervene to save routine costs, improve security and limit downtime.

• What is data integration?

  Data integration is the consolidation of data from different sources into one system, so that you can make decisions with a complete overview of all input and the potential impact of those decisions.

• Why are data and technology so important to a fleet management company?

  Vehicles are becoming increasingly complex machines, and when you’re running a fleet, there are a lot of small things that can make a big difference in cost and downtime. Modern technology and the resulting data can give you insights into trends, correlations and anomalies in your fleet and help you make the best decisions every day, resulting in significant savings over time and across all vehicles. Data and technology are critical these days to ensuring that your fleet is not just a cost center, but an investment that drives business success.

• What is predictive analytics?

  Predictive analytics is an advanced reporting technology that analyzes data to identify trends and predict the likely impact of a decision based on past events. Fleet managers can use predictive analyses such as Holman Analytics to improve their fleet by gaining insight into the likely impact of each decision.