Over the past 14 years, Bizmetric has helped many customers transform their data strategies and is on a path to becoming an industry leader. Bizmetric has empowered enterprises through successful greenfield data lake projects and digital transformation initiatives. With a Databricks-certified team and partnership status, we are here to build customer success.
Fragmented systems and siloed sources often hinder enterprises’ effective decision-making and operational efficiency. Recently, we have helped a leading engineering, procurement, and construction company in India facing a similar challenge.
A Complex Project, Delivered Seamlessly
This engagement was far from straightforward. It involved integrating legacy systems, ensuring data fidelity, replicating complex business logic, and establishing a new analytics framework, all while the organisation was migrating to a new ERP.
Bizmetric not only navigated these challenges with precision but also delivered a solution that exceeded expectations. The Lakehouse approach has positioned the business to innovate faster, respond quicker to market changes, and scale with confidence. We have also developed an accelerated approach with Databricks to make migration quick and seamless.
Success Story Overview
The client was operating on Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) for ERP, coupled with multiple disjointed data sources and no unified reporting infrastructure. The complexity was further amplified by their transition from Oracle to SAP.
Bizmetric, with its proven expertise in cloud data architecture and analytics, undertook this transformation journey. The result? A scalable, unified, and future-ready Lakehouse platform on Azure Databricks that delivered 55% cost savings and up to 80% time savings, setting a new standard for enterprise data modernisation.
The Challenge: Disconnected Systems and Legacy Dependence
Operating in a high-volume, high-complexity industry, the organisation managed operations through Oracle EBS 12.2.5. However, their historical data was intertwined with smaller sources, with no central repository or standardised reporting layer.
Key challenges included:
The company needed a solution that would centralise data, ensure future scalability, and enable fast, insightful decision-making.
- No single source of truth for reporting
- High dependency on Oracle for legacy data access
- Limited agility in generating insights across departments
- Increasing cost pressure during the ERP migration to SAP
Bizmetric’s Approach: Building the Lakehouse on Azure Databricks
Bizmetric delivered a comprehensive solution by building a Data Lakehouse on Azure Databricks, designed to ingest, store, transform, and analyse historical Oracle ERP data and other data sources. The system was built with scalability, efficiency, and innovation at its core.
Key Architectural Components:
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Databricks:
Enabled distributed data processing, with layered transformations -
Azure Data Factory (ADF):
Acted as the data orchestrator, using SHIR (Self-Hosted Integration Runtime) to connect securely to on-prem Oracle data sources -
Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS):
Served as the scalable storage layer, organising raw data in the Bronze layer -
Bronze Layer:
Ingested raw parquet files from Oracle -
Silver Layer:
Created one-to-one replicas of Oracle tables using external delta tables -
Gold Layer:
Transformed and curated data marts, facts, and dimensions for analytics -
Power BI:
Used for final reporting and ad-hoc analytics, driven by Gold layer datasets
Delivering Complex Oracle Report Migration
One of the most complex aspects of this engagement was the Sarovar Project—a targeted effort to replicate over 100 critical Oracle reports using Databricks Dashboards. These included month-end, year-end, and operational reports, vital to business continuity.
Bizmetric ensured:
- Each report’s logic and business rules were accurately replicated using Databricks SQL
- Dynamic dashboards were created using Databricks widgets to filter and run parameterised reports
- Processing time was reduced drastically; programs that took 60 minutes in Oracle now run in under 2 minutes
Strategic Benefits and Outcomes
Despite the project’s complexity, Bizmetric delivered measurable business and technical wins:
1. Centralised Data Management
Created a single, scalable repository in ADLS and Databricks, ensuring consistent, high-quality data across the enterprise.
2. 55% Cost Reduction
By offloading historical data from Oracle EBS into the Lakehouse, the organization avoided substantial licensing and maintenance costs.
3. 80% Time Savings
With Databricks’ parallel processing, report generation and data refreshes became significantly faster, empowering users with real-time insights.
4. Comprehensive Data Insights
Unified data from disparate sources enabled holistic visibility across operations, enhancing strategic planning and forecasting.
5. Scalable, Future-Ready Architecture
The Lakehouse architecture is built to support growing data volumes and seamlessly integrates with future technologies.
6. Empowered Users
Business users can now access, analyse, and visualise data independently through Power BI and Databricks Dashboards, reducing IT dependencies.
7. Enhanced Collaboration
A shared platform promoted inter-departmental collaboration, with common KPIs and dashboards supporting decision-making.
Why Databricks and Azure?
Bizmetric’s choice of Azure Databricks was strategic. Built on Apache Spark, it enables real-time processing and seamless integration with Microsoft’s cloud ecosystem. This allowed:
- Faster migration and report development
- Native compatibility with Power BI
- A secure, governed environment with Azure Key Vault and access controls
Let’s Build Your Success Story with Bizmetric Expertise
This real-world transformation shows how legacy ERP systems, like Oracle EBS, can be modernised through cloud-native platforms such as Azure Databricks. Bizmetric’s structured approach, deep domain expertise, and commitment to excellence helped turn a fragmented data landscape into a robust, insight-driven engine for enterprise growth.
Whether you’re looking to optimise ERP data with Databricks, migrate to a modern architecture, or build scalable analytics capabilities, Bizmetric delivers results that matter. Want our experts to work on your project? Contact us now!
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