Case Study: AbeBooks achieves a 150% increase in ETL literacy with Matillion ETL for Amazon Redshift

A solution that promotes ETL usage

AbeBooks, the online marketplace for new, used, rare and out-of-print books, outgrew its on‑premises database due to performance problems and high ownership costs. After choosing Amazon Redshift as its cloud data warehouse, AbeBooks needed a modern ETL solution because its existing ETL was tied to the old database and functioned as a “black box” for everyone but a few DBAs; the company selected Matillion and the product Matillion ETL for Amazon Redshift to address this gap.

Matillion delivered Matillion ETL for Amazon Redshift (downloaded from the AWS Marketplace) to migrate AbeBooks’ data to Redshift ahead of schedule and to build orchestration and transformation jobs that integrate third‑party sources and feed Tableau. The Matillion solution demystified ETL, increased ETL users within AbeBooks by 150%, freed DBAs and engineers from routine support, accelerated development cycles, and provided a scalable, easier‑to‑maintain data platform.

AbeBooks

Dmitry Anoshin

Data/Business Intelligence Engineer