Case Study: Slate transforms its data operations with Prefect Cloud

Slate Data Transforms its Business Model with Prefect Cloud

Slate Data, a Chicago-based information technology and services consultancy, helps enterprise clients modernize their data and analytics capabilities. As it grew, the team kept encountering the same challenge across industries: outdated, highly technical data stacks that created debt, slowed analysis, and limited the impact of business intelligence work. To address this, Slate Data turned to Prefect Core and Prefect Cloud.

With Prefect, Slate Data standardized and automated data workflows, centralized data processing, and gave clients secure, scalable infrastructure through a hybrid execution model. The result was a major shift in its business model: Slate Data expanded into new industries, helped clients empower their internal data scientists, and dramatically improved efficiency — with one workflow that used to take a full team two weeks now taking one person just 12 minutes. The company also said a 1% improvement in the process was worth $2 million, and that Prefect Cloud was “worth 3 full time engineers.”

Slate

George Coyne

Head of Engineering