Data Landscape Consolidation

Unification and governance of enterprise data assets on Azure PaaS

Client: Market Analytics Firm, USA

25%

faster delivery of new analytical products

3

new analytics products on shared platform assets

Hub-and-spoke

one governed platform instead of duplicated tooling

TypeScriptNode.jsPythonPostgreSQLRabbitMQAWSAmazon EC2AWS compute clusterAWS container servicesAmazon SQSAWS registryData centerAzure Kubernetes ServiceAzure Key VaultAzure DevOps servicesAzure Data Lake Storage Gen2Microsoft platformPower BICEPH S3-compatible storageTerraformPlaywrightSeleniumJasmineKarma
TypeScriptNode.jsPythonPostgreSQLRabbitMQAWSAmazon EC2AWS compute clusterAWS container servicesAmazon SQSAWS registryData centerAzure Kubernetes ServiceAzure Key VaultAzure DevOps servicesAzure Data Lake Storage Gen2Microsoft platformPower BICEPH S3-compatible storageTerraformPlaywrightSeleniumJasmineKarma

Challenge

The data technology landscape had grown fragmented: inconsistent tools, the same data extracted and stored twice over, no standardization. It cost money, slowed everyone down and left little that could be reused across products.

Solution

A centralized data platform on Azure PaaS in a hub-and-spoke architecture — data assets unified, redundancy removed, engineering effort streamlined, and governance and security enforced rather than assumed.

Implementation

  • 01One platform of reusable assets: pipeline templates, IaC modules, CI/CD
  • 02Centralized data catalog with automated metadata management
  • 03Security policies, monitoring and access models put in place
  • 04Data exploration and hypothesis testing opened up to analysts
  • 05Delivered Agile, high-priority use cases first

Business impact

Redundant data extraction and storage cut, and costs with them

25% faster delivery of new analytical products

3 new analytics products launched on shared platform assets

Better data management, discoverability and security

Analysts served by self-service and exploratory tools

Technology stack

Backend
  • Python
  • Flask
Data & Governance
  • Databricks
  • Delta Lake
  • Azure Data Factory
  • ADLS Gen2
  • Azure Purview
Cloud Services
  • Azure Functions
  • Event Grid
  • Key Vault
  • SQL Azure
  • Azure API Management
DevOps
  • Terraform
  • Azure DevOps

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