Background:
An education publishing company, known for producing digital and print learning materials, has experienced significant growth through acquisitions of smaller publishing firms and edtech platforms. As a result, their data infrastructure became fragmented across multiple systems, including different CMS platforms, MS SQL Servers, and newer cloud solutions hosted on Microsoft Azure. This complexity hindered their ability to effectively manage, analyze, and optimize their content offerings for educational institutions:
Goals:
Consolidate Data Sources: Migrate and integrate data from acquired systems into a unified platform.
Improve Data Quality: Standardize and cleanse data to eliminate duplicates and inconsistencies.
Enable Advanced Reporting: Create a centralized data architecture to support real-time reporting and advanced analytics.
Solution:
Data Migration: All data from disparate MS SQL Server databases and CMS systems was migrated to Microsoft Azure. The Azure platform was chosen for its scalability and ability to handle large datasets.
Data Transformation: Leveraging Azure Data Factory, data was transformed and standardized across systems, ensuring consistency in data formats, taxonomies, and structures.
Automation and Integration: Automated ETL pipelines were set up to ensure continuous data integration and updates, enabling real-time reporting and analytics.
Results:
Unified Data Platform: Consolidated data from acquired systems into a single, cloud-based platform on Azure, breaking down silos and enabling seamless access.
Enhanced Data Quality: Data transformation improved data accuracy, eliminated redundancies, and provided clean, actionable datasets.
Faster Reporting: The company reduced reporting times from days to minutes, with real-time insights into content performance, user engagement, and sales metrics.
Conclusion:
The data migration and transformation project provided the education publishing company with a scalable, unified data platform that enhanced data quality, enabled real-time reporting, and improved decision-making across their newly integrated operations.
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