Case Study: Digital Realty achieves 80% improvement in agility and time-to-value with Denodo Technologies

Global Data Center Solution Provider Improves Agility and Time-To-Value by 80%

Digital Realty, the world’s largest full‑scale data center provider with 156 data centers in 11 countries and about $2B revenue, was rapidly growing through acquisitions and faced a proliferation of systems and inconsistent data. Traditional ETL processes couldn’t keep up: they were rigid, required specialized skills, and slowed business users who needed trusted, real‑time views for financial planning, customer 360° insights, and market segmentation.

Digital Realty built a governed middle layer using the Denodo Platform for data virtualization, Semarchy MDM, and Birst for dashboards, and appointed business “data champions” to define rules and certify data. Delivered in three‑week agile iterations, the solution cut time‑to‑value and improved agility by about 80%, accelerated issue detection via quality dashboards, simplified integration of acquired systems, enabled precise customer segmentation, and strengthened financial governance and enterprise data trust.

Digital Realty

Paul Balas

VP of Business Intelligence