Case Study: Blue Yonder achieves retail forecasting at scale with Exasol on Microsoft Azure

Blue Yonder combines Exasol with Azure and Power BI to deliver retail analytics on billions of records daily

Exasol customer Blue Yonder needed a highly scalable way to analyze massive, fast-changing retail data from ERP, CRM, merchandise systems, and weather sources to improve stock optimization and forecasting. Microsoft Azure was part of the solution, with Exasol used as the high-performance analytics database and Microsoft Power BI for reporting.

Exasol implemented its analytics database on Microsoft Azure, integrated with Power BI, to deliver scalable cloud analytics and near-real-time dashboard refreshes. The result was more than 1 billion sales forecasts generated daily, hundreds of millions of records assessed each week, and up to 40% better forecast results for digital merchandise management customers, helping reduce logistics costs and improve shelf availability.

Exasol

Aaron Auld

Chief Executive Officer