About the customer

The media company is a premier cinema, video and media organization. Headquartered in New York City, the company provides national and regional advertisers with on-screen advertising solutions, in-lobby promotions and integrated marketing programs. In a landscape of partial impressions and fragmented messaging, they deliver un-skippable innovative solutions, putting their clients at the forefront of modern advertising on the biggest screens, serving captivated audiences throughout the world.

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PRODUCTS & SERVICES

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SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)

Azure SQL Database

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PowerBI
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Business Challenge

To meet its reporting requirements, the client needed a solution to replace its legacy analysis services (e.g. traditional OLAP cube) and business intelligence and performance management software suite with a tabular model (e.g.in-memory cube).

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The SNP Solution

SNP Technologies provided a managed, scalable data analytics solution that offers simple, self-service capabilities the client needed along with the governance and automation their IT teams required.

Phase 1: Source Analysis & Requirement Gathering

  • Determine where the data will be extracted to support the reporting system.
  • Document how data will be stored in the Azure SQL Database.
  • Design an ETL process to extract the data from multiple sources, aggregate it and convert it and load it into Azure SQL Database.
  • Create design documents.
  • Update ETL processes from other sources.

Phase 2: Development & Implementation

  • Create the database.
  • Use Azure Data Factory to create the ETL process.
  • Create tabular model cube on top of the Azure Database.
  • Establish quality assurance guidelines for the deliverables.
  • Create reporting using Excel and Power BI.
  • Finalize solution for production.
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Customer Benefits
  • Self-service data preparation allows users to capture and combine virtually any type of data effortlessly.
  • Different kinds of data can be handled and merged into a single model that is easy to understand and use.
  • Role-based security is enforced with only authorized users having access to data models, no matter where they are.
  • Users are empowered to create and personalize dashboards and reports with Power BI.
  • Azure analysis services instances are performed within seconds without time consuming and costly migration requirements.
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