Oune­va Group’s knowl­edge man­age­ment to next lev­el with Islet’s support

Oune­va Group has ini­ti­at­ed a sig­nif­i­cant col­lab­o­ra­tion with Islet Group to revamp and enhance data man­age­ment, data ware­hous­ing, report­ing, and ana­lyt­ics. The part­ner­ship began with a data strat­e­gy con­sult­ing assign­ment, dur­ing which Islet’s expert team con­duct­ed a com­pre­hen­sive assess­ment of Oune­va Group’s cur­rent state in terms of data uti­liza­tion and data-dri­ven deci­sion-mak­ing, and iden­ti­fied goals and a future vision.

Cur­rent State Analy­sis and Data Strategy

At the start of the col­lab­o­ra­tion project, a wide range of inter­views were con­duct­ed at var­i­ous lev­els of the orga­ni­za­tion, and the exist­ing tech­ni­cal solu­tions were exam­ined, includ­ing oper­a­tional sys­tems and data uti­liza­tion solu­tions, their matu­ri­ty lev­el, and var­i­ous use cas­es. Sev­er­al key indi­vid­u­als from Oune­va Group, span­ning dif­fer­ent depart­ments and top man­age­ment, as well as those involved in report­ing and han­dling data, par­tic­i­pat­ed in the inter­views. These inter­views were a vital part of the data col­lec­tion process, pro­vid­ing valu­able insights into the orga­ni­za­tion’s cur­rent state, chal­lenges, and devel­op­ment opportunities.

Based on the inter­views, analy­sis, and data col­lec­tion, Islet’s team cre­at­ed a final report that out­lines the key guide­lines for the clien­t’s data strat­e­gy towards the future:

• Com­pre­hen­sive descrip­tion of the cur­rent state, archi­tec­ture, and key challenges/​pain points.
• Descrip­tion of the tar­get state, includ­ing top devel­op­ment themes, Islet’s rec­om­mend­ed data plat­form archi­tec­ture with tech­ni­cal com­po­nents and alternatives.
• Ini­tial roadmap and pro­jec­tion of devel­op­ment themes/​business needs.

Towards Data Man­age­ment Transformation

After cre­at­ing the data strat­e­gy, the col­lab­o­ra­tion between Oune­va Group and Islet con­tin­ued towards the desired data man­age­ment trans­for­ma­tion. The cen­tral focus of this phase was the con­struc­tion of a new cloud-based data plat­form and the devel­op­ment of report­ing and ana­lyt­ics capa­bil­i­ties. In the tech­ni­cal imple­men­ta­tion, Microsoft Azure was cho­sen as the pri­ma­ry cloud ser­vice, with Synapse Ana­lyt­ics as the cen­tral plat­form. Azure Synapse Pipelines was used for data retrieval, pro­cess­ing, and trans­for­ma­tion, while Azure Data Lake enabled cost-effec­tive and scal­able data stor­age and his­to­ry track­ing from source systems.

The devel­op­ment work pro­ceed­ed iter­a­tive­ly, with the goal of ensur­ing the clien­t’s con­trol and trans­paren­cy in the progress of the devel­op­ment. The project plan was final­ized in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the client, and the focus of devel­op­ment was adjust­ed based on the clien­t’s pri­or­i­ties. Con­cep­tu­al mod­el­ing played a cru­cial role in shap­ing the data plat­for­m’s data mod­el, ensur­ing the under­stand­ing of busi­ness terms and the right struc­ture to sup­port effec­tive data utilization.

The devel­op­ment of the data ware­house and report­ing was divid­ed into mul­ti­ple phas­es, includ­ing set­ting up the envi­ron­ment and imple­ment­ing sev­er­al func­tion­al­i­ties for lat­er phas­es. Pow­er Apps solu­tions were inte­grat­ed to enable effi­cient data col­lec­tion for spe­cif­ic use cas­es. Addi­tion­al­ly, the data plat­for­m’s uti­liza­tion was extend­ed to a “data hub,” allow­ing data to be trans­mit­ted from the data plat­form to dif­fer­ent sys­tems and between them.

A Data Plat­form for Future Needs

In the future the col­lab­o­ra­tion will con­tin­ue, and the solu­tion will be fur­ther expand­ed into automa­tion, ana­lyt­ics, and AI to increase data trans­paren­cy, reduce man­u­al work, and enhance respon­sive­ness through­out the orga­ni­za­tion. The mod­ern, scal­able, and future-proof data plat­form will enable address­ing a wide range of dif­fer­ent busi­ness needs, whether it’s relat­ed to IoT data from pro­duc­tion facil­i­ties or pre­dic­tive analytics.

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Oune­va Group is a Finnish, fam­i­ly-owned con­tract man­u­fac­tur­er and R&D part­ner for a wide range of indus­tries, rang­ing from mechan­i­cal engi­neer­ing to world’s lead­ing elec­tron­ic secu­ri­ty sys­tems. The pro­fes­sion­al exper­tise and cut­ting-edge tech­nolo­gies have laid the foun­da­tions for long part­ner­ships with their customers.

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