A global software development enterprise had built its analytics operation on an on-premise reporting platform, and that foundation was starting to hold the business back. The platform simply wasn’t efficient enough to accurately anticipate or respond to shifts in the marketplace, leaving marketing and customer success teams working with insights that arrived too late to act on. Maintaining that reporting platform was expensive, and it wasn’t easily accessible to internal business teams, which made it genuinely difficult to gain insights in real time when the moment actually called for them. The company’s data and reporting cycles had become outdated over time, and that stagnation was quietly lowering the efficacy of its own analytics. What it needed was a stable, modern reporting platform, one that could deliver real-time reports, lower maintenance costs, and finally enable the kind of self-service analytics its teams had been missing.
Ascendion co-engineered a new data platform by combining the client’s existing data platform with the Azure data stack, migrating the company’s on-premise analytics reporting to Microsoft Azure’s open and flexible cloud data platform. This improved throughput significantly and made the platform far more scalable and easier to maintain than what came before.
The new solution platform re-engineered the underlying processing logic, which further improved the speed of reporting across the board. Through self-service capabilities built into the solution, the client’s business teams gained the ability to access and act on insights independently, improving how the enterprise delivered its business services overall.
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Delivered a 40% reduction in operational costs, easing the financial burden of maintaining a platform that had grown increasingly expensive to run.
Achieved a 60% improvement in time-to-market for new reports, giving marketing and customer success teams access to insights fast enough to actually act on them.
Improved platform scalability and maintainability, giving the business a foundation built to grow rather than one that needed constant upkeep.
Enabled self-service capabilities that let business teams generate their own insights, reducing dependency on technical teams and speeding up day-to-day decision-making.
