Manufacturer of optics and optoelectronics
Implementation of use cases with Microsoft HDInsight and Azure
Starting point
- The department has no way to analyse data across applications
- Due to the lack of an integrated and consolidated view of the production data, analytical potential is lost
Procedure
- Demonstrating the feasibility of use cases with Hadoop
- Recommendation of a Data Lake concept
- Use of Hadoop components for various use cases
- Utilisation of a cloud-based Hadoop cluster
- Use of Hadoop for the central storage of all production data
Features/Project outcome
- An integrated data repository of unstructured and structured data in a modern data analytics architecture using both classical and NoSQL technologies
- Creation of a future-proof and scalable business analytics architecture in the cloud
Customer benefits
- Long-term analyses over any period with unlimited levels of detail
- Relieving the existing enterprise architecture and RDBMS
- Cost reduction through more affordable storage in Hadoop
- Empowering departments to adapt the benefits of big data approaches

Rainer Unsöld | Member of Executive Board