Case Study: Colas Group achieves a unified data foundation and rapid data-driven innovation with Databricks

Driving organizational efficiency through data unification

Colas Group, a global construction and engineering company with hundreds of subsidiaries across 50 countries, struggled with a highly decentralized data landscape—dozens of HR systems, siloed sensor streams and inconsistent formats—making it slow and difficult to generate consolidated reports, aggregate operational insights or run scalable analytics.

Partnering with OpenValue to deploy Databricks on Azure, Colas built a unified cloud data platform for ETL, machine learning and collaborative notebooks. The platform accelerated time-to-market for data projects, enabled rapid solutions (for example an automated site-reopening report in two weeks), improved asset efficiency and reduced energy consumption through predictive maintenance, and made company-wide data collaboration and innovation possible.

Colas Group

Philippe Toublant

Chief Data Officer