Case Study: Adcorp Group achieves enterprise-wide analytics and a scalable, cost-effective data platform with Microsoft Azure

Why Azure? Adcorp did it for advanced analytics and infrastructure that’ll scale for years

Adcorp Group, South Africa’s largest publicly traded provider of workforce management solutions, had grown rapidly through acquisitions and was left with a fragmented IT landscape—29 subsidiaries using at least nine different financial systems, no unified data model, and slow, costly enterprisewide reporting that made timely analysis and support unsustainable.

Adcorp partnered with Genpact and built an Azure-based analytics platform using Azure Data Factory, Blob Storage, Azure SQL Data Warehouse and Power BI to consolidate data into a single repository. The solution delivered real-time, self-service dashboards and a pervasive, trusted view of the business (over 1.5 billion rows / 100+ GB), cut daily data upload from 23 GB to 1.4 GB through compression (reducing load times from hours to minutes), lowered front-end costs (Power BI ~25% of a competing option), and enabled faster decision-making, improved customer segmentation and scalable growth.

Adcorp Group

Peter Aling

Head of BI Strategy