Case Study: EXASOL achieves real-time retail analytics and better forecast results with Microsoft Power BI and Azure

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

EXASOL customer Blue Yonder helps some of the world’s largest retailers modernize their supply chains, but it needed to handle massive volumes of data from ERP, CRM, merchandise management, and weather sources to make accurate near real-time stock optimization decisions. To meet this challenge, Blue Yonder used Microsoft Power BI alongside Exasol Analytics Platform on Azure to support its retail analytics operations.

Microsoft Power BI and Exasol on Azure gave Blue Yonder a highly scalable, high-performance analytics environment that refreshes dashboards every minute and supports flexible growth across expanding data sources. The result is more than 1 billion sales forecasts generated daily, hundreds of millions of records analyzed 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