Islet helped Best-Hall become a fore­run­ner in infor­ma­tion man­age­ment with a mod­ern ana­lyt­ics solution

Best-Hall is a Finnish com­pa­ny spe­cial­ized in design­ing and con­struct­ing dif­fer­ent types of hall build­ings. Their halls are used in many dif­fer­ent fields, for exam­ple in logis­tics & ware­hous­ing indus­tries, but also as facil­i­ties in pro­duc­tion relat­ed indus­tri­al use cas­es or var­i­ous types of free­time activ­i­ties. Best-Hall had a grow­ing need to start devel­op­ing a new and more mod­ern solu­tion for data uti­liza­tion. They also had built a strong desire to take infor­ma­tion man­age­ment in the orga­ni­za­tion to a new lev­el as a whole. Islet was select­ed as a part­ner in the project to find the best pos­si­ble tech­no­log­i­cal solu­tion for Best-Hall that would meet both the com­pa­ny’s cur­rent and future needs. In addi­tion, the goal was to gen­er­ate imme­di­ate busi­ness benefits.

In the ini­tial sit­u­a­tion, the infor­ma­tion in the com­pa­ny was frag­ment­ed and many were affect­ed by lack of trans­paren­cy. Report­ing was large­ly done through man­u­al work in var­i­ous Excel sheets. Dif­fer­ent kinds of addi­tion­al report­ing tools were used in dif­fer­ent parts of the orga­ni­za­tion. How­ev­er, they were not in wide use and the enti­ty did not serve the users opti­mal­ly. At Best-Hall, the need was clear­ly iden­ti­fied for a data plat­form that would bring togeth­er the infor­ma­tion and serve dif­fer­ent busi­ness areas and their needs in a diverse and near real-time manner.

Best-Hall’s new data archi­tec­ture imple­ment­ed by Islet was designed to cov­er all future needs flex­i­bly, regard­less of data vol­umes and busi­ness needs. The cost-effec­tive data and ana­lyt­ics solu­tion bases on a data plat­form imple­ment­ed on top of Microsoft­’s Azure cloud ser­vice and an inte­grat­ed Pow­er BI report­ing tool. The solu­tion uti­lizes Synapse Ana­lyt­ics. Its archi­tec­ture is based on Islet’s Azure ref­er­ence archi­tec­ture, which fol­lows Microsoft­’s Cloud Adap­ta­tion Frame­work (CAF), indus­try best prac­tices, and Islet’s long expe­ri­ence with Azure-based data platforms.

The main focus of the project was to devel­op the uti­liza­tion and trans­paren­cy of infor­ma­tion relat­ed to pro­duc­tion and projects in par­tic­u­lar. The fast busi­ness ben­e­fits were pro­duced by intro­duc­ing var­i­ous visu­al­iza­tion pack­ages which stream­lined the day-to-day oper­a­tions and pro­vid­ed the users dif­fer­ent kinds of snap­shots of operations.

Imme­di­ate­ly after its intro­duc­tion, the solu­tion was found to already have sig­nif­i­cant­ly clar­i­fied sit­u­a­tion­al aware­ness in Best-Hal­l’s pro­duc­tion. The mas­sice traf­fic of calls and e‑mails pre­vi­ous­ly asso­ci­at­ed with map­ping the sta­tus of projects has been sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduced with the solu­tion – and thus also the time and effort spent on them. Today, the nec­es­sary infor­ma­tion is trans­par­ent­ly and simul­ta­ne­ous­ly avail­able to all nec­es­sary per­sons through a sin­gle tool, in a clear and visu­al­ized form. The solu­tion serves as the core for Best-Hall’s data archi­tec­ture and works as a scal­able and cus­tomiz­able foun­da­tion for expand­ing data uti­liza­tion in the future.

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Best-Hall Oy, orig­i­nal­ly from Kokko­la, Fin­land, was found­ed in 1975. Best-Hall sup­ports its cus­tomers with design­ing, build­ing and main­te­nance work of halls. In addi­tion, the com­pa­ny pro­vides finan­cial ser­vices: a hall can also be acquired under a lease or a leas­ing agree­ment. In 2020, Best-Hal­l’s turnover was approx­i­mate­ly 41 mil­lion euros and it had a lit­tle over 130 employees.

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