Case Study: Iceland Foods modernises data estate with WARDY IT Solutions

Executive Summary

In 2019, Iceland Foods’ existing data warehouse, a proprietary platform created by Teradata for analysing customers and sales insights was coming to its end of life.
WARDY IT Solutions were able to demonstrate our skills quickly. We reviewed elements of the data warehouse and were proactive in suggesting improvements.
The migration to Azure Synapse has resulted in significantly reduced operational costs and increased agility.

At a glance, WARDY IT Solutions delivered:

A working long-distance relationship: the time gap between the UK and Australia was bridged by ensuring engineers and consultants were available around the clock.
Modernised data solutions: WARDY managed the migration to Azure Synapse, and were able to accelerate the company’s journey to the Cloud and introduce HADR.
Reduced operational costs: which transformed Iceland Foods from an expensive capital expenditure model to a cost-effective operational expenditure model.
Ease of use in a modern data estate: using familiar Microsoft technology to enables key business leaders to access information with greater ease and easily ingest additional data sources to augment their existing data.
Scalable solution: can adapt to meet the requirements of peak trading times.

WARDY was able to provide a product noted for its ease-of-use, which made recruitment easier for Iceland Foods, as there are less technical skills required to access and analyse the information. This also means that onboarding staff and providing training is a quicker and smoother process. The new solution is also scalable and can adapt to meet the requirements of peak trading times including Christmas.

With the former estate retired, the Azure data estate aligns with Iceland Foods’ broader business plan of Cloud migration.

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