Case Study: Takealot.com accelerates root cause analysis and self-service with Atlan

Takealot Harnesses Data to Achieve eCommerce Dominance

Takealot.com, a South African eCommerce and retail leader, needed a better way to understand its expanding data estate and support business self-service as it migrated to BigQuery and Looker. The data team was spending too much time tracing lineage, resolving breakages, and answering consumer questions manually, while also working to centralize and standardize BI processes across the business.

With Atlan’s active metadata platform, Takealot connected BigQuery and Looker to gain automated lineage, asset discovery, ownership metadata, and self-service access to data context. The results included a 50% reduction in root cause analysis time, reduced risk through impact analysis, and nearly $6,000 in annual BigQuery savings so far from deprecating unused assets, while also improving time-to-insight and confidence for data consumers.

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