How Amaris Consulting supports a leading energy business in designing and implementing a data platform
Our client
Our client, founded in Belgium in 1819, is a market leader in electricity sales, natural gas and energy services. It is the country’s leader in clean energy. They offer innovative solutions to residential, professional and industrial customers and local authorities to enhance comfort and a more economical and rational consumption of energy. Throughout its transformation journey; a department is consolidating and strengthening its two major data platforms into a single modern platform designed to support regular business intelligence and future advanced data & analytics use cases
Project
The main challenges of this project included:
- Re-working the data platform’s architectural design
- Self–service analytics architecture and user adoption
- Data integration and consolidation across business lines (originating from external growth)
- Design fit storytelling to spark value within business lines
Solution
In order to meet these challenges, our teams were able to set up continuous improvements for the platform architecture, alongside analysis and solution development. They also performed DWH data modelling and implemented a solid data governance structure to optimize efficiency. Lastly, planning and agile management served to streamline processes, ensuring a balance of flexibility and efficacy.
Results
With our Center of Excellence approach, we were able to ensure effective management of the whole Data Platform, thus increasing deliverable quality and reducing time to market. Our strong and comprehensive team ensured continuous delivery. Our architectural design for the platform addressed some major pitfalls and ensured readiness for both basic and advanced data & analytics use-cases. Our unrivalled platform and project management was generally able to meet and exceed this prestigious client’s expectations, resulting in high levels of satisfaction.
