"After almost 70 years developing, financing and managing infrastructure around the world, it was time to disrupt traditional business and build new data-driven revenue streams."
Like many large enterprises, this infrastructure group possessed petabytes of data stored in various places. The organisation saw an opportunity to generate more value from its data trove.
With access to almost limitless data sets from current property assets, together with external data measuring air pollution, traffic, and weather, the potential insights were untold.
The challenge
The data challenge was significant:
- Petabytes of data stored across various locations
- 70+ years of documentation locked in print or PDF
- Critical security, governance, and compliance requirements
- Government and high-security facilities to protect
These insights would not only lead to more efficient use of current property assets, but also pave the way for new digital products, revenue streams, and business units.
The approach
A hyper-scalable AWS data lake engineered to ingest petabytes from thousands of real-time feeds.
Kablamo deployed an onsite, cross-functional agile team to work alongside the business to uncover requirements and features needed to fully access and utilise the data.
Within weeks, Kablamo's on-site team had designed and delivered an AWS cloud data lake engineered to ingest petabytes of data from thousands of real-time data feeds:
- Cloud digital strategy including authentication, security, and deployment
- AWS data lake engineered for petabyte-scale ingestion
- AWS Textract to extract text and data from 70+ years of documentation
- Custom UI and data catalogue to bring the platform to life
The platform used event-driven, serverless workloads to enable infinite and automated scalability while delivering robust security and governance postures.
Results
Along the way, Kablamo worked with the company's internal digital teams to help them build the capabilities and skills they would need to thrive in a digital future.
Looking forward
The infrastructure group is now positioned to unlock new revenue streams from its data assets. Data scientists can uncover insights to drive future product development, and the multi-tenant architecture provides flexibility for future integrations across the organisation.
