Migrated data from legacy system to Snowflake data warehouse
Mastering Momentum in Energy
Our customer supports utilities companies by tapping into the industry’s largest asset data to assess asset health and system resiliency. This also includes modernizing infrastructures and processes to provide safe and reliable services. When the customer required an upgrade involving the migration of their data to Snowflake, they worked with TGS, a partner known for their expertise in utilities and the Snowflake platform.
Shifting to a Snowflake Modern Data Platform
Building a Grid for Data Modernization
As a market-leading provider in utilities infrastructure, our customer needed to ensure their own data pipeline enabled scalability and informed decision-making. With a modern data platform, they could create more dynamic reporting to optimize efficiencies and reduce complexities. Moving their data from on-premises to Snowflake would allow enhanced data analytics and real-time data insights, accommodating multiple sources of data.
Constructing a Snowflake Data Warehouse
Renewing Reporting and Data Management
Early in their cloud journey, they sought a collaborative partner for this transition. Migrating to a Snowflake data warehouse required industry expertise and effective data solutions. As a Snowflake Elite Partner, TGS delivers modernization frameworks and implements unified data solutions on Snowflake, enhancing data management to help achieve their objectives.
With TGS providing the technical leadership and change management framework, our customer could embrace the cultural evolution from on-premises to the cloud.
- Build a Snowflake data warehouse, which our customer can use for income statement details, profit and loss, and balance sheet ledger model reports.
- Create dynamic table reports using enterprise data warehouse (EDW) data.
- Develop Snowflake dashboard reports for data load monitoring and Snowflake object inventory.
Establishing a Data Warehouse and Custom Reporting
Structured Industry Best Practices and Solutions
TGS provided real-time recommendations and insights throughout the process, ensuring the customer stayed up to date on revised timelines and deliverables. Our experts regularly implemented industry best practices and worked collaboratively with the customer to identify solutions, even building out additional features outside of the initial project scope.
- Building the customer’s data pipelines and standing up the Snowflake instance for the modern data platform
- Establishing a data warehouse to accommodate multiple sources and dynamic reporting capability
- Creating custom ingestion reports to help the customer import their data
- Documenting a runbook detailing all procedures and step-by-step guidance on data ingestion and load
- Writing custom Python and SQL scripts to avoid additional spending on tools
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Real-World Results
TGS worked on a sprint-based model, designing data models for NetSuite in Snowflake and creating customized templates for loading data. By creating dynamic reports, TGS helped the customer access data-driven reporting across the organization, boosting speed and performance while enabling better business decisions. This industry leader continues to support a stronger, safer and more resilient power grid, helping communities minimize risk and keep the lights on—literally.
