Case Study: Howard Hughes saves $300K a year with Rivery

Howard Hughes saves $300K a year on data engineering with Rivery

Howard Hughes, a large real estate developer, needed a simpler, more reliable data foundation to support sales, accounting, and operations. The company was managing a tangled stack of Talend, dbt core, Jenkins, MySQL, and Snowflake, which made daily loads slow, error-prone, and expensive to maintain. Rivery was brought in to replace that complex setup with a more streamlined data operations platform.

With Rivery, Howard Hughes consolidated ingestion, transformation, and orchestration into a single platform, using CDC-based replication, push-down SQL transformations, and custom connectivity for additional sources. The result was ETL time cut to under 40 minutes, three new sources added, historical snapshots implemented, and a data team reduced to two people instead of six external consultants. Rivery also helped Howard Hughes save about $300K annually and reduce Snowflake costs by roughly 80%.

Howard Hughes

Robert Dunlap

Data Architect