Centralized Insights, Accelerated Outcomes: Enhancing Transportation Engineering Analytics

challenge

Manual Processes Lead to Slow Decision Making

A leading global retailer faced a significant roadblock in their transportation engineering operations. Their benchmarking team had a large amount of siloed data spread across multiple systems, leading to inefficient, manual workflows. Without automated quality checks, they struggled with errors and inconsistencies in their reports, which slowed decision-making and hindered progress. The benchmarking team needed help creating robust reporting dashboards to enable better decision-making and uncover deeper insights across the entire transportation engineering organization.

Key Outcomes

Developed over 40

Quicksight dashboards

solution

Streamlined Data Reporting

In order to tackle our client’s reporting challenges, and set them up for long-term success, we established a number of key data engineering and visualization solutions:

AWS Infrastructure Setup: Set up and managed a new AWS infrastructure to improve accessibility, reliability, and governance over their data.
Dashboard Creation: Created over 40 new dashboards to support reporting needs on various construction-related KPIs (e.g. Milestones/SLAs, Contract Agreements, Renovation Projects, etc.)
Pipeline Integration: Integrated data pipelines with third party tools and other internal teams
Ticketing System Implementation: Set up ticketing system to gather business requirements for new dashboards
Knowledge Sharing: Conducted sessions with parallel teams to facilitate similar implementations and provided thorough documentation for onboarding and knowledge transfer
Standardized Templates: Standardized formatting with templates for a consistent and professional experience

results

Time Savings, Higher Velocity, Enhanced Decision-Making

The implementation of our data engineering and visualization solutions yielded significant results for our client. The new AWS infrastructure enhanced data storage and processing capabilities, leading to more efficient data management. The creation of over 40 dashboards, along with the implementation of a ticketing system to gather business requirements, provided comprehensive insights into various construction-related KPIs and ensured the dashboards met user needs. Integrating data pipelines with third-party tools and internal teams streamlined data flow, improving overall operational efficiency. Knowledge-sharing sessions and thorough documentation facilitated smooth onboarding and empowered parallel teams to implement similar solutions. Standardized templates ensured a consistent and professional appearance across all reports, enhancing the client’s reporting experience.

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tech used

AWS, S3, Lambda, Glue, Step Functions, Security (IAM), Redshift, APPFLOW, Quicksight

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