Accelerating the delivery of new digital initiatives with confidence
Success Story High Tech
Cloud Data System Accelerates Performance for a Fortune 500 CompanyApexon implements Snowflake’s centralized cloud data warehouse 
This Fortune 500 company provides marketing and business communications, commercial printing, and related services to clients around the world. The business optimizes client engagements by storing and managing their data. Historically, this data was stored on traditional systems that were inaccessible to their clients. Over the years it has transitioned to digital.
The company engaged Apexon to help update and improve their data storage process to allow for easy access and visualization for all of their clients. The initial direction was to consider packaged data warehouse solutions such as AWS, Azure, and Cloudera.
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Fortune 500 company with 150+ years in business
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Present in 34 countries at 200 locations with more than 43,000 employees serves more than 50,000 customers
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World’s largest commercial printer (2007)
the Customer Journey
- Legacy migration
- Migration support, wire-framing, DLSw Connect, Marketing Solution Group, UX, Chatbox Support Desk
- Pageflex, West Caldwell support, Wells Fargo support, BCS support
the Results
Key Outcomes
200x faster system
performance
performance
On-demand cost
structure
structure
90% cost saving
vs. alternative
storage solutions
vs. alternative
storage solutions
Go Digital
Be digital
Creating the infrastructure and foundation to scale digital initiatives
Evolve Digital
Leveraging data and analytics to continuously improve digital delivery processes
Enable digital adoption in a quick, and agile manner
Apexon implemented a top-of-the-line cloud data warehouse: Snowflake.
Build digital infrastructure and foundation for enterprises to scale
Apexon worked with Snowflake team to integrate client data into a centralized system, accessible to any user, on any application.
Leverage data engineering to make strategic decisions and get digital right every time
Apexon helped convert different data into a single format and transferred into a multi-cluster database. The data can be pushed to consumers and data analytics, or used for predicting trends and gaining customer insights.
The challenge
Provide a flexible solution tailored to each customer
The company had been storing all project data on an internal system, requiring clients to reach out to the company anytime they needed to access something. The Senior V.P. of IT wanted to find a way to centralize and improve this process, as well as give clients easy access to the their project data. But they had a few major obstacles to overcome.
Vendor Lock-in The solutions they were considering would lock them into a single provider, making the process more difficult and less liable for the customer.
High Costs Each of the solutions had high license fees. The client wanted the flexibility of paying based purely on usage.
The Solution
Implementing a top-of-the-line cloud data warehouse: Snowflake
Infostretch’s team of Snowflake experts started by cleansing and preparing the existing client data for integration. Snowflake allows both structured and semi-structured data to be easily moved into a centralized system, accessible to any user, on any application.
The integration ensured that there was no limit on the amount of users and no maximum capacity for simultaneous users. Apexon also ensured that there would be no performance degradation in either scenario. Afterwards, the data could also be used for forecasting, analytics, and additional business insights.
Apexon had experience and relationships with all of the solutions being considered, as well as others. One in particular seemed best suited to address the company’s need for flexibility, access, and customization: Snowflake.
Different data is converted into a single format and transferred into a multi-cluster database. The data can be pushed to consumers and data analytics, or used for predicting trends and gaining customer insights.
With Snowflake in place, the company is seeing big benefits:
200X faster system performance Once the integration was completed, the company saw a significant increase in performance both internally and externally
90% cost reduction Compared to other cloud warehouse databases that charge flat licensing fees. With Snowflake, the company only pays for what they use