Softility helped a leading US telecommunications company implement a modern Data Cloud platform for BI, data science, and operations.
MOVING TO A SCALABLE SECURE CLOUD DATA WAREHOUSE PLATFORM
The telecommunications company offers high-speed internet, television, and voice services in the US. In a bid to continually improve, innovate and provide high-quality services to its customers, the company stays ahead of rapidly evolving technology advancements, by scaling IT and network infrastructure quickly and exponentially.
The telco’s legacy data warehouses, with “shared-nothing” architectures, tightly coupled storage with compute and database services, rendering them incapable of scalability or flexibility.
The company sought Softility’s innovative data solutions to check the feasibility of modernizing its data warehouse using a scalable and flexible cloud data warehouse to process, report, analyze, and derive intelligent insights from the rapidly increasing volumes of data from disparate sources in operations, devices, and applications.
We helped the telecom provider implement a modern data cloud platform for operations, BI, and Data Science.
The transformation goals were to:
- migrate to a cloud-based data warehouse to easily scale up or down computing resources as per the concurrency demands
- easily ingest and aggregate semi-structured data (such as JSON) and structured data in unified relational SQL views
- facilitate sharing of disparate data with minimum effort, and provide insights faster.
USHERING IN ADVANCED CLOUD-BASED DATA TRANSFORMATION, ANALYTICS, AND BI
Softility offered advisory, strategy, architecture, migration, and modernization services to help the telco implement Snowflake’s cloud-based data warehouse platform.
With decades of experience providing high-impact Big Data and Data warehousing solutions for Fortune 500 companies and some of the world’s largest telcos, Softility helped the customer test the potential of Snowflake cloud data warehouse and Talend Cloud ETL, adding value with innovative accelerators that drastically improve time to market.
MODERNIZING THE DATA WAREHOUSE WITH THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY STACKS
Unified data warehouse platform with seamless technology integration
We demonstrated the modern cloud-based approach to data warehouses using the cloud. The company traditionally uses IBM Netezza and leveraged Snowflake as an alternative approach to meet its new requirements and use cases. The modern warehouse enables quick, easy-to-use, and flexible data storage, processing, and analytic solutions.
The centralized data repository includes Data Lake, Data Sharing & Collaboration, Data Marketplace, and elastic infrastructure and integrations for Data Engineering, Data Application Development, Data Science, and AI and ML projects.
We documented and proposed the best practices for Snowflake data warehouse schema and Talend ETL handling jobs. We provided a modern solution bringing together the latest technology stacks, including Talend, AWS, and an ecosystem of tools.
- ADVANTAGE: The modern data cloud platform enables the company to easily store and seamlessly gain access to data (structured, semi-structured, and unstructured) across internal and external sources, and acquire 3rd-party data sets, tools, and applications without having to move or copy data.
Multi-cluster shared data architecture separating storage from compute
The highly-responsive cloud-based centralized data warehouse provides a completely new SQL query engine with a hybrid architecture of shared-disk and shared-nothing models, physically separating but logically integrating storage, compute, and services.
Each of these three components can be increased or reduced independently, which makes the platform more responsive and adaptable. The users can apply or dial back down, dedicated compute clusters to each workload in any desired quantity, at any point in time.
- ADVANTAGE: This provides complete elasticity, flexibility, and scalability (performance and concurrency), supporting the customer’s growing business. With better query performance and reduced processing times, the telco can easily, quickly, and automatically store, transform, integrate, analyze, acquire, share, monetize, and elastically scale up and down real-time data, as required.
End-to-end data encryption of governed data, tools, and applications
The easily-adoptable cloud data warehouse enables multi-hybrid cloud capabilities with inbuilt data compression and encryption, ensuring data security and compliance with HIPAA, GDPR, and PCI-DSS. The platform easily and seamlessly integrates apps deployed both on the cloud and on-premise.
- ADVANTAGE: This makes it easier for teams across organizations to collaborate, and seamlessly, securely access/share governed data.
Seamless integration of technology stacks across on-prem and hybrid cloud
The modern data warehouse prevents data replication for multi-vendor engagement and provides easy plug-and-play integration of technology stacks across multi-hybrid cloud environments. The platform provides seamless access to thousands of data sets.
ADVANTAGE: The telco saves operational expenses by avoiding vendor lock-ins. There is improved data access traceability. Users can derive business insights without worrying about ETL data movements or storage costs.
MASSIVE BENEFITS OF MIGRATING TO THE CLOUD-BASED DATA WAREHOUSE
The new modern data cloud platform is a simple, high-performant, highly-concurrent, and affordable solution enabling the telco to ensure data availability, optimization, and protection automatically. Instead of routine data management activities, the data teams can instead profitably focus on innovation with insights-driven business decisions.
| High Performance – handle big amounts of data processing and analytics, easily and quickly | Scalability – increase or decrease resources allocated to the data warehouse, on demand | Concurrency – process queries, access & analyze data, without being affected by the load |
| Cost-Effectiveness – eliminate vendor lock-ins and pay only for the used resources | Easy Integration – integrate tools, build data pipelines, and easily support various use cases | Semi-Structured Data – support handle, analyze, and collaborate on diverse data types |
| No Maintenance – free up teams from managing routine hardware, s/w updates, backups, etc. | Data Sharing – collaborate and share data easily without complex data transfers | High Security – ensure privacy and heightened security with encryption, access control |
About Softility
Softility is a digital transformation technology services provider of innovative solutions spanning diverse technology portfolios – cloud adoption and modernization, data engineering and analytics, AI-driven operations, and digital service management. We are the first-choice partner for several businesses requiring unique custom transformational journeys, from early-stage strategic advisory and quick solution design, implementation, and delivery, to managed services. We’re a trusted long-term partner of several large businesses, including Fortune 500 telecom companies, SLEd organizations, healthcare institutions, large enterprises, and federal government institutions that repeatedly choose us over large tech consulting companies for their revolutionary digital transformation journeys.
With customized data analytic solutions powered by modern data architectures, we provide a unified, real-time, and accurate view of your business, enabling you to innovate through data-driven decision-making.
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