Case Study: GetSmarter achieves rapid time-to-market and unified data—cutting data warehouse delivery from 6 months to 2 weeks with Denodo Technologies

GetSmarter Leverages the Denodo Platform to Improve Time-to-Market and Customer Service

GetSmarter, a digital education brand of 2U, partners with leading universities to deliver premium online short courses. Rapid growth and a mix of cloud services, microservices, SaaS apps and traditional databases left data scattered across many heterogeneous systems, so business users and data scientists lacked a single version of the truth, struggled with multiple connections for reporting, and had no consistent governance or easy path to compliance.

GetSmarter implemented the Denodo Platform as a governed, normalized data virtualization layer, exposing business-context definitions directly or loading them into a reporting warehouse as needed. The platform unified access for reporting, data science and partners, enforced security and compliance (GDPR, PoPI), and eliminated redundant copies of sensitive data. As a result, GetSmarter had a production-ready data warehouse in about two weeks instead of six months, simplified and sped up reporting, accelerated product launches, improved decision-making with a single view of data, and increased customer satisfaction by better matching students to success managers.

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Schoeman Loubser

Information Architect