BI Platform and GCP Cost Optimization for Retail

Business Case Story

The client wanted to replace an existing data platform with a collaborative BI solution that helps drive insights, make smarter decisions, and deliver measurably better results. They engaged with Adastra to support them in this endeavor.

Their goals for this project were to be able to quickly make decisions for better category planning, and sales promotion effectiveness, as well as to standardize the ways they and suppliers work together.

“Adastra appeared as the best option for our needs and mission. Adastra was chosen for this project, because of their extensive large-enterprise background in the Information Management. We needed a skilled partner, who would design and develop a professional and highly secured analytics solution.”

Senior Technical Project Manager | Large Retail Company

Solution Story

Adastra initially supported their in-house BI development teams. We performed code reviews and proposed ideas how to optimize the performance of the platform.

“Adastra helped us optimize our cloud investments. They build a cost optimization services that drive cost insights beforehand and enable us to act accordingly.

Not only their team supported us to execute our CI/CD pipeline, but also upgraded our CI/CD strategy by implementing a custom process for automated deployment of multiple BI applications.”

Senior Technical Project Manager | Large Retail Company

Adastra’s cloud consultants ensured high availability for their IT architecture. We provide 24/7 monitoring and support to the production environments as well as incident management by handling customers’ requests.

With this platform, our client and suppliers can anticipate problems with out-of-stock products at the finest level of granularity. It standardizes the ways both parties work together, allowing best practices to be used consistently across the business.

Benefits Story

Throughout time, both parties have built an excellent collaboration model. We have daily standups plus a couple of triages a week. All these ensure seamless information flow. Adastra’s global delivery teams are easy to work with. Our deployment solution automated manual efforts and ensured high scalability of the entire CI/CD strategy.

“We now execute 300x faster deployment for all the BI applications.

As an outcome of the cloud cost optimization, on average, our customer experiences 60x faster queries execution time as well as 3000x reduced cost per query.

They ensured high availability of our infrastructure and 24/7 incident management.

I am truly impressed by the mindset of their team members. They do not miss any chance to consult us on strategic platform enhancements which drives tremendous outcomes in the long run. I also value the quick response time and feel we there is someone reliable on our side if we need it. They embrace our mission as their own.”

Senior Technical Project Manager | Large Retail Company