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RELIED on product usage data to provide insights and guide future development . Its legacy data warehouse could not scale to accommodate increasing volumes of data streamed from several sources daily . Analysts were hindered by performance degradation and maintenance downtime . They were frustrated because they could not access historical data .
Managing the data warehouse was becoming an increasingly time-consuming task . The organisation was spending more time doing that than undertaking analytics . Upgrading to the next tier of its existing data warehouse would have doubled its costs . The Deputy analytics team looked at several options to replace its data warehouse and chose Snowflake .
As well as the growing quantity of data , Deputy knew it had issues with its design which negatively impacted performance . Rather than change this immediately , it opted to run the existing design on Snowflake to see how
Deputy sees culture shift after regaining control of its data
Established in 2008 in Sydney , Deputy is an Australian technology company that provides cloud-based workforce management and scheduling platforms . Its 150 employees serve customers in more than 70 countries around the world . It needed to replace its data warehouse and after an eight-week proof of concept , it chose Snowflake . Thomas Ward , Director , Data , Insights and Analytics at Deputy tells Intelligent SME . tech about the benefits Deputy has seen since it chose Snowflake .
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