Case Study: Blackline Safety achieves scalable real-time data streaming and optimized efficiency with Rackspace Technology

Blackline Safety optimized efficiency and output by investing in the cloud

Blackline Safety is a global leader in connected safety wearables and cloud analytics whose rapid growth — from 80 to over 260 employees and expanding G7 device deployments — created a need for real‑time, high‑volume data processing. The COVID‑19 pandemic added urgency for an industrial contact‑tracing solution and required a dramatic increase in data reporting frequency (from once every five minutes to once every ten seconds), exposing limits in Blackline’s existing architecture.

Onica (a Rackspace Technology company) modernized Blackline’s platform on AWS, using services such as Amazon Kinesis, EMR and Redshift plus Delta Lake to ingest, enrich and store high‑rate device data. The new infrastructure enabled 30x higher reporting cadence, delivered interactive contact‑tracing reports and analytics, preserved data integrity and access controls, and positioned Blackline for continued growth and advanced data science.

Blackline Safety

John Moura

Director, Software Development and Operations