Case Study: WGSN achieves rapid launch of scalable, high-performance market intelligence service with Pivotal

WGSN Group Supporting rapid launch of game-changing market intelligence service for retailers with Hadoop

WGSN Group, a global strategic intelligence and trends company, identified an opportunity to launch WGSN INstock—a market intelligence service to help fashion retailers make merchandising decisions. The service had to collect and process massive, rapidly growing volumes of product, sales, and pricing data, so WGSN required a high-performance, highly scalable information infrastructure; after evaluating vendors, it selected EMC Isilon scale-out storage alongside Pivotal Greenplum Database and Pivotal HD.

WGSN deployed Isilon integrated with Pivotal Greenplum and Pivotal HD, using Isilon to provide HDFS storage directly to Pivotal’s compute modules for fast data transformation. The tightly integrated platform enabled deployment in under four weeks, simplified administration, and now processes more than 3 million data points across 250,000 products—delivering up-to-the-minute insights to retailers and scalable capacity for future growth and advanced forecasting.

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