Case Study: Bol.com achieves $10M in cloud analytics cost savings and faster BI with AtScale

How bol.com Increases ROI and Accelerates Time-to-Insight on Google BigQuery with AtScale

Bol.com, the leading online retailer in the Netherlands and Belgium serving millions of customers, faced an overloaded Hadoop analytics stack and the sudden end of their previous BI tool (Platfora), which created a data bottleneck as they moved to Google BigQuery and Tableau. To enable self-service analytics and live access to historical data without heavy engineering, Bol.com selected AtScale’s semantic layer solution to sit between BigQuery and Tableau.

AtScale implemented a semantic layer and intelligent query acceleration that gave Bol.com’s 1,600 BI users fast, live connections to fresh and historical data with consistent metrics. More than half of Bol.com’s queries use AtScale acceleration, over 70% of Tableau workbooks now load in under 10 seconds, and AtScale’s optimization cut BigQuery compute costs by 91%, yielding nearly $10 million in annual savings.

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