Case Study: Komatsu Australia achieves 49% cost reduction and 25–30% performance gains with Microsoft Power BI

Komatsu - Customer Case Study

Komatsu faced aging mainframe applications and an explosion of telemetry and operational data from its fleet, creating silos that slowed decision-making and drove up costs. To modernize its analytics platform the company consolidated data into a cloud data estate—moving to Azure SQL Database Managed Instance with TimeXtender Discovery Hub, Azure Analysis Services, and secure connectivity via Azure ExpressRoute—and adopted Microsoft Power BI for reporting and visualization.

Microsoft Power BI sits on top of that Azure-based platform to deliver self-service dashboards and visual analytics, giving employees and customers timely, trustworthy data. The move delivered measurable gains: a 49% reduction in costs, 25–30% performance improvements, the ability to process ~1 million records per day from a 1.5 TB dataset, faster and more frequent data loads (replacing an 8–10 hour weekly report with daily updates), and improved inventory and service decision-making using Microsoft Power BI.

Komatsu

Todd Connolly

General Manager,Construction Solutions