Case Study: Fresh Water Systems achieves $14K/year savings, reduced IT headcount, and faster analytics with Panoply

Panoply saved Fresh Water Systems thousands in costs with lightning fast analytics

Fresh Water Systems, a Greenville, SC–based leader in water filtration and treatment, faced an inflexible legacy data stack that made new integrations and growth resource‑intensive. To modernize, the company chose Panoply’s cloud data warehouse (alongside Stitch Data for additional ETL) to replace the old system and support increasing data volume from sources like Shopify and other platforms.

Panoply’s hosted, columnar platform and native connectors let Fresh Water Systems pull data into usable tables within minutes with virtually no manual ETL, while Stitch opened additional sources. The change delivered measurable impact: the IT team shrank from 7 to 3, the company saved about $14,000 annually by removing an add‑on caching layer, a Shopify integration alone saved roughly two months of work, and marketing and executives now access accurate KPIs and reports quickly—demonstrating significant time, cost, and resource savings with Panoply.

Fresh Water Systems

John Wessel

Director of IT and Data Manager