Retail & consumer electronics

Near real-time data warehouse

Europe 2020-2021

Context

As part of an ERP migration, migrate 98 high-volume JSON business objects with complex structures (shops, warehouses, users, receipts, stocks...) from Azure to Snowflake to feed Qlik in near real-time.

Approach

Automatic generation of hundreds of SQL and Scala queries from specifications to denest complex objects. The system produced and feeds 150+ tables and views updated in real-time. ADLS→Snowflake ingestion via Kafka/ADF and orchestration via streams and tasks.

Impact

Minute-level feeds for BI teams processing millions of files per day. Transition to the new analysis system followed by deprecation of the legacy one.

Business objects

98

Latency

<1 min

SnowflakeAzureKafkaADFQlik

What we delivered

  • Automatic SQL generation from XML metadata to speed up deployments.
  • Delta updates orchestrated by Snowflake Tasks with dedicated monitoring.
  • Custom Scala functions to denormalize nested JSON.
  • Coaching for analysts to leverage the new real-time feeds.
  • Environment management via Snowflake API (test / pre-prod / prod).

Want to explore a similar use case?

Let's align on your next data, app or AI priority and draft an actionable roadmap in days.

Book a call