Objectives
In an effort to reduce cost and implement a more scalable framework, Staples engaged Mastek to respond to the demands of its business and end users for the benefits available in the cloud.to build and implement a reference architecture that will utilize state-of-the-art tools and quickly transition to the corporate cloud strategy.
Staples wanted to have the capability to will support online business growth and holiday demand.
The Challenges
- Expense to support Teradata environment exceeding budget.
- Expiring technology restricts ability to scale to meet online and holiday demand.
- End of life technology needed to be replaced.
Why Mastek?
- Proven expertise in implementing Snowflake with Azure Cloud.
- Model to reduce high maintenance cost and slow application development.
- Experience to minimize data movement to improve performance.
Benefits
- Performance – 8x improvement in performance and near linear scalability.
- Affordability – 19% reduction is server and storage costs and 16% reduction in operational costs (~$1.5M per year).
- Agile Processing – Implemented a re-usable framework with open source tools.