Elevating Retail Data Analytics: Legacy 1010 to GCP Migration Success

Client Overview:

A major US retailer with numerous discount stores, providing a wide range of everyday essentials, household items, and seasonal products at competitive prices, sought to retire their outdated 1010 data platform. The goal was to reduce overall operational costs while enhancing their data science and analytics capabilities for future-ready business insights.

Business Challenges:

• Multiple data platforms have been built over the years to address specific analytics needs.
• Online and offline business performance were not integrated, despite operational overlaps aimed at enhancing the overall customer experience.
• KPIs on the 1010 platform did not align with internal BI reports, causing a trust deficit and forcing teams to spend hours reconciling data and business logic.
• An excess of KPIs and reports served the same users, leading to integrity challenges and further trust issues.
• Maintaining the 1010 platform had become costly, and implementing changes and enhancements required significant time.
• The analytics development cycle was prolonged due to the complex reporting environment and a lack of self-service capabilities.