What the Client Was Facing
A retail chain's BI team was running 400 SSRS reports off a SQL Server data warehouse that was 24 hours stale. The warehouse was maintained by a single contractor who was leaving. Report generation took 45 minutes for complex queries and the business had no self-service analytics.
What ZippyOPS Was Engaged To Do
ZippyOPS was brought in to design and implement a solution addressing the root causes of the client's challenges — delivering measurable outcomes within a fixed engagement timeline. Our team worked embedded with the client's engineers throughout the entire project.
How We Solved It
ZippyOPS built a modern data stack replacing the legacy warehouse with Snowflake, Fivetran for managed ingestion from 30 source systems, dbt for transformation and Metabase for self-service analytics. All dbt models were documented, tested and deployed through a CI/CD pipeline.
Technologies Used
Measurable Outcomes Delivered
400 legacy reports migrated and 60 consolidated into self-service dashboards
Query performance improved from 45 minutes to under 30 seconds
Business users creating their own reports within 2 weeks of Metabase launch
Single contractor dependency eliminated — platform managed by a 2-person internal team
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