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Windward Entity Management simplifies data inefficiencies by consolidating fragmented entity records into a unified, pre-matched database. This eliminates manual matching across platforms, reducing delays and errors, and enabling faster, more accurate, and confident decision-making.
ENTITY MANAGEMENT DATA PARTNERS
Leverage a proprietary, pre-matched maritime ownership database with diverse data sources to analyze company fleets and identify high-risk vessels. Ensure compliance, mitigate risks, and streamline operations with a complete view of ownership and vessel risks:
Our proprietary database resolves fragmented identifiers (WW, WC, DUNS, IMO), consolidating unstructured data into actionable insights.
Covering 92% of the relevant maritime maritime, with data on over 116,000 maritime companies, with 3,000 new entities added monthly for real-time clarity.
Benefit from expert-reviewed updates to stay ahead of industry norms in entity & ownership accuracy.
Retrieve vessel and company information – including ownership levels, risk profiles, sanctions, and more – through a single API call directly into existing processes.
Visibility into vessel ownership ensures accurate assessment of potential compliance and risk factors before engaging with a vessel, helping avoid legal, financial, or reputational pitfalls.
Understanding the true ownership behind counterparties allows you to evaluate credit risk, regulatory exposure, and operational structure, so you can make informed decisions when onboarding new vendors or renewing contracts.
Having access to detailed ownership data empowers organizations to strategically plan business approaches, and to target the right opportunities at the right time, while mitigating hidden risks that could impact long-term goals.
What is Windward’s Entity Management solution?
Windward’s Entity Management consolidates fragmented vessel and company records into a single, pre-matched entity layer. By resolving ownership, control, and identifier inconsistencies across maritime and non-maritime data sources, it enables faster, more accurate screening, monitoring, investigations, and business decisions without manual reconciliation.
What does Windward mean by “pre-matched” entity data?
Pre-matched means Windward resolves entity relationships in advance, before users interact with the data. Vessel and company identifiers such as IMO, DUNS, internal IDs, and external registry references are continuously reconciled into unified entities. This eliminates duplicate records, conflicting names, and manual matching across systems.
What level of ownership transparency does Windward provide?
Windward provides up to seven levels of vessel ownership and management, including beneficial ownership, registered ownership, technical and commercial management, and operational control. This depth enables users to understand who truly controls a vessel, not just who appears on paper.
How frequently is ownership and entity data updated?
Entity and ownership data are refreshed daily. Updates are triggered by new registry filings, behavioral signals, sanctions changes, customer feedback, and AI-generated leads. This ensures entity records reflect current ownership and control, not outdated snapshots.
How does Windward ensure entity and ownership accuracy?
Windward combines automation with expert human verification. Algorithms clean, normalize, and match data from multiple sources, while trained maritime analysts review complex cases, validate changes, and manually resolve ambiguities. This hybrid approach significantly reduces false matches and data gaps.
How is Entity Management used in vessel and counterparty due diligence?
Entity Management provides a trusted foundation for due diligence by linking vessels to their true controlling entities. This enables teams to assess exposure related to ownership changes, sanctioned affiliates, high-risk regimes, or opaque corporate structures before engaging with a vessel or counterparty.
How does Entity Management support investigations and network analysis?
By maintaining consistent entity resolution across vessels, companies, and historical activity, Windward enables investigators to trace ownership networks, uncover hidden connections, and identify coordinated behavior. This supports deeper investigations without manual cross-referencing across systems.
Can Entity Management be integrated into existing systems and workflows?
Yes. Windward provides entity and ownership intelligence via API, allowing organizations to retrieve vessel and company data – including ownership hierarchies, risk indicators, and sanctions exposure – directly into compliance platforms, intelligence systems, or operational workflows through a single integration.
How does Entity Management support Business Intelligence and commercial teams?
Entity Management enables commercial teams to analyze fleet ownership, corporate relationships, and operational control at scale. This supports smarter account targeting, portfolio analysis, and opportunity identification while avoiding engagement with entities that carry hidden operational or compliance risk.
What makes Windward’s Entity Management different from standard ownership databases?
Unlike static registries, Windward continuously updates entity relationships using behavioral intelligence, AI-driven change detection, and human verification. The result is a living ownership layer that reflects how maritime entities actually operate, not just how they are registered.
