Case Study: Bertel O. Steen achieves an AI-ready data catalog in two months with Dawiso

Bertel O. Steen builds an AI-ready data catalog in 2 months with Dawiso

Bertel O. Steen (BOS), a major Norwegian automotive and trading group, faced significant challenges with its open-source DataHub deployment. The operational effort to maintain the platform was high, and its limitations became apparent as the company scaled its data work across Databricks and Microsoft Fabric. BOS needed to migrate its existing work without loss, required end-to-end lineage, a bilingual business glossary, and a solution with a sensible cost of ownership, all on an accelerated timeline.

Dawiso implemented a fully customized data catalog, successfully migrating over 100,000 objects and preserving BOS's existing business glossary and data products. The solution featured a unique bilingual content model for Norwegian and English, end-to-end lineage across Databricks and Power BI, and an MCP integration to make the catalog AI-ready. The project was completed in roughly two months, resulting in a single source of truth that is faster and easier for users and provides reliable impact analysis for engineers.

Bertel O. Steen (bos)