Case Study: North American Energy Company achieves accelerated Azure cloud migration and real-time secure data access with Denodo Technologies

A North American Energy Company Leverages the Denodo Platform in the Microsoft Azure Cloud to Modernize Its Data Infrastructure

A leading North American energy company operating more than 70 power plants across the US, Canada and Australia needed to modernize its data infrastructure to support cloud-native applications while meeting strict regulatory and access-control requirements. The business faced predictable migration hurdles — legacy authentication that couldn’t be simply ported, geographic latency, and terabytes of data whose ETL would take prohibitively long — and required a phased, non-disruptive move to Azure that preserved security, auditing, and user access.

The company deployed the Denodo Platform on Microsoft Azure to provide a data-virtualization layer that delivers real-time, integrated views across on-premises and cloud sources (including Active Directory and real-time sensor feeds) without massive data replication. The approach enabled a phased migration with no downtime, faster migration than traditional ETL, centralized security and governance, and new cloud apps — a virtual data mart used by 200+ traders daily for real-time market analysis, an accurate turbine-icing prediction app, and an HR dashboard that improved managerial visibility.