Fred Ehlers at Norfolk Southern Wins 2022 TIBCO Visionary Lighthouse Award

Fred Ehlers, CIO at Norfolk Southern is the winner of the Visionary Award. This award recognizes a distinctive business leader who has built a revolutionary data-centric program while guiding teams to outstanding achievement through vision, inspiration, creativity, and commitment. Ehlers sought to unify Norfolk’s operation systems with central intelligence built into the core. By leveraging TIBCO solutions, the company has greater visibility into daily operations, providing more precise customer forecasting. With real-time insights from Ehler’s team, Norfolk Southern is better positioned to respond and adapt to environmental challenges. With the help of these initiatives, the company reduced train idle time by 80 percent, lowered contractor costs, and increased train capacity. Ehlers’ team has also modernized its core systems through the capture of 17 lines of business, gaining 360-degree views of its assets, and developing a mobile app for employees to communicate with one another in the field easily.