The customer
The client is a prominent distributor of chemicals and various industrial commodities in emerging markets. With a broad global footprint across multiple regions, they have built strong infrastructure and expertise. Their end-to-end commercial, supply chain, and financing solutions deliver a competitive edge to customers across diverse industries.
The context
The organization faced limitations in their existing data management processes, lacking a centralized, scalable, and governance-driven platform to support their digital transformation. The absence of a unified domain-driven architecture led to inconsistencies in data quality, accessibility, and reporting capabilities. Manual ingestion, transformation, and quality processes hindered efficiency and scalability, while governance and lifecycle management were not sustainable. Data access was not user-friendly or secure, lacking role-based and row-level security measures.
“With the new platform, we now have secure, scalable, and reliable access to data—enabling faster, more confident decision-making across the organization.”
The solution
To address these challenges, the company implemented a robust and scalable data platform built on Microsoft Fabric. Key components of the solution included:
- Centralizing and standardizing data streams through a unified architecture.
- Developing a domain-driven medallion architecture (bronze, silver, gold layers) with Data Vault modeling.
- Automating infrastructure setup and ingestion pipelines using Azure DevOps for CI/CD and version control.
- Enhancing transformation processes with dbt and securing access through Entra ID integration.
- Deploying a semantic layer for efficient data consumption using Power BI.
The impact
The new platform delivered significant improvements, including:
- A scalable, governance-driven foundation to support digital transformation.
- Enhanced data quality and accessibility, empowering business users with timely and reliable insights.
- Secure and user-friendly data access through role-based and row-level security controls.
With these improvements, the organization is now well-equipped to make data-driven decisions with confidence, agility, and security.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Christof Steyaert
Managing Partner BE-Flanders
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