Case Study: WesTrac achieves faster recovery and major savings with Astronomer Astro and Airflow

WesTrac cuts pipeline recovery time by 30%+ with Astronomer

Astronomer, Inc. helped WesTrac, Australia's largest Caterpillar dealer, overcome a significant data orchestration challenge. WesTrac was consolidating its data platform onto Snowflake but found its existing tools—Azure Data Factory, Databricks Notebooks, and Snowflake Tasks—were too brittle and inflexible to coordinate complex dependencies across its ETL/ELT pipelines, leading to inefficiencies and unreliable analytics.

The solution implemented by Astronomer was its managed Airflow service, Astro. This provided WesTrac with a unified platform for cross-platform orchestration, enabling them to seamlessly coordinate jobs across Informatica, dbt, and Power BI. The results were substantial, including a 30% faster recovery from job failures, 36% in annual savings from optimized job execution, and a 25% reduction in infrastructure management time, allowing the small engineering team to focus on higher-value work.

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