About the Company
The Port of Corpus Christi is a major US Gulf Coast seaport authority, managing vessel traffic, berth operations, billing, and port infrastructure across one of the most strategically important industrial corridors in North America. Like most large port authorities, POCC's day-to-day operations span multiple specialized systems - vessel traffic, berth utilization, asset status, billing - that have evolved independently over years and now sit in disconnected silos.
POCC engaged Tequity to consolidate these systems into a unified operational visibility layer that the port's executives and operators can rely on.
The Challenge
Building an executive-grade operational view at a port authority is fundamentally a data engineering and integration problem:
- Multiple siloed source systems: Vessel movement data (AIS), enterprise data (JDE), berth and asset status systems, and billing systems all live separately, with different schemas and update cadences.
- Cloud-native foundation required: The platform had to be built on Azure and Power BI - POCC's standard cloud and BI stack.
- Data integrity and lineage: Executive dashboards are only useful if every number is traceable, audited, and reliable.
- Scalability for future expansion: The architecture had to accommodate additional source systems and additional dashboard surfaces in subsequent phases.
Solution Implemented by Tequity
Tequity is delivering POCC's operational visibility and data foundation platform as a focused engineering engagement.
Foundation Setup:
- Azure and Microsoft Fabric environments stood up.
- Data lake architecture defined and provisioned with Terraform for reproducible, version-controlled infrastructure.
- KPIs and executive dashboards confirmed with the POCC leadership team.
Data Ingestion Pipelines:
- Pipeline setup for vessel movement data (AIS - Automatic Identification System).
- Pipeline setup for enterprise data from JDE (JD Edwards).
- Architecture designed to accept additional source systems progressively.
Dashboard Layer:
- Power BI executive dashboards underway, consolidating vessel movement, berth utilization, asset status, and billing into a single executive surface.
Operating Approach:
- Tight working cadence with POCC's IT and operations leadership.
- Data engineering, cloud architecture, and BI work running in parallel inside a single Tequity team.
Process and Approach
The POCC engagement is a strong example of Tequity's enterprise data delivery capability: a focused, time-bounded build that takes a real public-sector data integration problem from siloed source systems to a unified, governed, executive-ready visibility platform - on Azure and Power BI, with infrastructure-as-code from day one.
Phase 1 has set the data lake, Terraform foundations, and the first two ingestion pipelines (AIS, JDE). Subsequent phases will expand the source coverage and the dashboard layer.
