Establishing a Logical Data Fabric To Support a Digital Transformation
City Furniture is a Florida-based retailer that is on a mission to change the way people live — with beautiful home furnishings at an incredible value. With planned expansions throughout Southeast, Southwest, and Central Florida, City Furniture is a business focused on fast growth and exceptional service.
Although City Furniture has been experiencing rapid growth, it was also facing challenges with slow, inefficient data integration technologies. These extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes were expensive and slow to implement, which impeded important data initiatives.
A Digital Transformation Powered by Logical Data Fabric
City Furniture needed to be able to provide accurate data to different teams such as sales, marketing, supply chain, and business operations, to help them make faster decisions, keep pace with the company’s rapid growth, and continue to meet customer needs with responsive operations. The company needed a modern data integration and data management solution that can establish an enterprise-wide logical data fabric. City Furniture implemented the Denodo Platform, logical data management solution built on data virtualization, into its data architecture as the highest-level data layer for all analytics and operational systems. City Furniture connected all data sources, from basic flat-file Excel spreadsheets, to cloud databases, to a legacy IBM iSeries server platform, to the Denodo Platform’s virtual layer.
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