Scalable BI Solution and Customizable Reports for a Food Manufacturer and Distributor

Industry

Manufacturing, Retail

Technologies

Azure, MS SQL Server, Power BI

About

The Client is a large food manufacturer and distributor operating across the US.

challenge

As the Client’s business kept expanding, it was becoming more challenging to analyze the ever-growing volumes of data scattered across multiple on-premises and cloud data sources. The legacy approach to data analytics had many error-prone manual steps and lacked transparency in data flows. To boost enterprise-wide decision-making, the Client was looking for a reliable tech partner to design and develop a robust BI solution.

Solution

One of the key advantages of the new BI solution over the legacy system is the ease of data management and report customization. The platform enables greater responsiveness to the evolving business needs, significantly reducing the workload on the Clients ICT team. The ICT team is now able to alter the current reports, add new data sources, manage the logic of data transformations and data access rules in a single place, and also build reports and analytics processes much faster.

Staging

Staging a Scalable BI Solution and Customizable Reports for a Food Manufacturer and Distributor involves designing a robust system to enhance data analytics, reporting capabilities, and decision-making processes. Here a structured plan:

Datawarehouse

Dataware House

Desktop Application

Results

Within six months, the Client received an easy-to-scale BI solution that serves as a single point of truth for business data and drives enterprise decision-making. With VolgoTechnologies help, the Client has increased transparency of data flows across the company, improved constituency and security of business data, and got new possibilities for safe data experiments.

Technologies and Tools

Microsoft Blob Storage, Microsoft Azure file share, Microsoft Key Vault, Azure Event Grid, Azure Analysis Service, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL Database, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft SQL Server, Azure Active Directory, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Business Central.