Due to its inability to scale, Element’s legacy enterprise data platform was no longer performing adequately as a centralized mission-critical system, which ultimately created gaps in Element’s ability to analyze extensive datasets that were vital to the company’s growth. The company needed a comprehensive data platform that could:
- Help monitor and reduce costs
- Scale sustainably in a way that was relative to anticipated growth in demand
- Support business requirements for advanced analytics, business user usability, data ingestion to a central data repository, data cleansing and data consumption layers
- Enable centralized platform monitoring
- Act as a centralized storage location for semi-structured and non-structured data (e.g. images and licenses)
- Allow the business to easily identify and create new KPIs and metrics