Case Study
Automated Lineage Visualisation: Global Retailer
When a Global Retailer spent several billion dollars to take over an e-commerce start up in 2016, the financial media was quick to raise their eyebrows. Since completing the deal, the retailer’s e-commerce sales have soared, climbing 63% in its most recent quarter. Online inventory has also grown, from just 10 million items last year to at least 67 million today. However, with growth came complexity. Sources of data became unclear, bringing difficulty in understanding how to aggregate the data and determine from which system(s) the information originated. In early 2018, the acquired e-commerce start-up arm of the retailer initiated a search for a solution that could provide a visual, searchable and transparent view of the input/output pipelines from their Data Platform. A solution that wou