Case Study: Sky New Zealand achieves real-time, error-free data replication to Snowflake with Precisely Connect

Sky New Zealand Realizes Real-Time, Error-Free Data Replication with Precisely

Sky New Zealand, the New Zealand broadcaster and streaming provider, was modernizing its analytics by moving to Snowflake but struggled with siloed IBM i/Db2 systems and bespoke ETL that took 4–10 hours, was error-prone, and hard to change. Facing a short implementation window and high-availability complexity, Sky selected Precisely (Precisely Connect with Change Data Capture) to deliver near‑real‑time, no‑code data movement into the cloud.

Precisely deployed Connect with CDC to extract and replicate roughly 1,000 Db2 tables into Snowflake (staged in Amazon S3); a proof of concept took two weeks and full production was live in a month. The solution delivered real‑time replication as transactions occur, automatic catch‑up after disruptions with no data loss, reduced reporting latency to just a few hours for business users, and freed IT from heavy ETL development—accelerating Sky New Zealand’s cloud analytics modernization.

Sky New Zealand

Quintin McKenzie

Head of Corporate Core