Case Study: a large American retail store chain achieves instant data request fulfillment with AIM Consulting Group

Retailer cuts data request time from days to under a second with AIM Consulting Group

A large American retail store chain struggled to locate data across its nearly 2 billion data assets, with requests taking from days to a month to fulfill. Their analytics team's attempt to build a data catalog using MySQL stalled, as the application could not scale to meet demand. The retailer engaged AIM Consulting for its expertise in developing a scalable, production-ready data portal.

AIM Consulting re-engineered the application from the ground up, implementing an open-source solution with MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and RabbitMQ. This new data portal provided immediate data discovery, reducing search times to less than a second. Usage grew from 70 to over 1,000 searches per day within months. The project was a major success, and AIM Consulting was retained to add further enhancements to the system.