A car insurance company wanted to have higher data quality and faster system response times when reporting. Additionally, they wanted to create a system which had the ability to store the data.
Über den Kunden
Problemstellung
The current use of the system was not sufficient due to the following reasons:
- A data management problem which resulted in more work and time waste for the client
- The system in place had problems with changing structures and therefore the effort in keeping it updated was too great
- Data quality issues and scalability problems led to the system reaching its limits
- Switching to another option was more cost intensive
Die Herausforderung
The client was facing different challenges that needed to be addressed with Scalefree:
- A more sophisticated system was needed to provide the information required
- More in-depth technical knowledge was needed which was not provided by the internal workforce
- It was necessary to have quicker testing of the operation and systems
- It was required to make better use of the information that was available to them
Die Lösung
The client selected Scalefree as its consulting partner and performed a One Day Sprint. Within this setting, exemplary data was used to show the Data Vault approach which could be used to resolve the problems the client was facing:
- Virtual Data Vault used to show the data model
- This approach was able to adjust to modifying structures in the data
- Showed problems in file formatting and a business key problem
Konkrete Ergebnisse für den Kunden
With the use of the One Day Sprint the client learned how to:
- Optimize timings and fix data quality
- Focus on developing new features
- Make better use of their information
- Reduce their costs due to less effort with the new system
- Adjust the processes currently in use
Verwendete Technologien
- Kafka
- SQL
