Islet helped Kon­tio trans­form data man­age­ment and analytics

Kon­tio­tuote Oy has start­ed a co-oper­a­tion with Islet Group to devel­op their ana­lyt­ics and knowl­edge man­age­ment solu­tions, process­es and cul­ture. Kon­tio wants to lever­age data as a strate­gic asset and to gain a com­pet­i­tive advan­tage in the market.

New data plat­form for enhanced data inte­gra­tion and reporting

Kon­tio was under­go­ing a carve-out process from their par­ent com­pa­ny PRT For­est, which required them to imple­ment new sys­tems and ser­vices, includ­ing a new ERP sys­tem to replace their ERP. They also need­ed a mod­ern and scal­able data plat­form to inte­grate data from mul­ti­ple source sys­tems and to enable faster and more accu­rate report­ing and ana­lyt­ics for their busi­ness users.

Embrac­ing Data Lake­house archi­tec­ture for improved agili­ty and innovation

Islet deliv­ered a cut­ting-edge Azure data plat­form solu­tion using Islet’s ref­er­ence archi­tec­ture for mod­ern data plat­form solu­tions. The solu­tion is based on Data Lake­house archi­tec­ture, which is a mod­ern approach that com­bines the best of data lake and data ware­house par­a­digms. Data Lake­house archi­tec­ture enables stor­ing and pro­cess­ing struc­tured, semi-struc­tured and unstruc­tured data in a sin­gle plat­form, while pro­vid­ing high reli­a­bil­i­ty, cost-effi­cien­cy, per­for­mance, and gov­er­nance. It also sup­ports advanced ana­lyt­ics and machine learn­ing capa­bil­i­ties, as well as flex­i­ble and scal­able data inges­tion and trans­for­ma­tion. Data Lake­house archi­tec­ture helps to reduce data silos, com­plex­i­ty, costs, and to improve data agili­ty and innovation.

Islet used Azure Synapse Ana­lyt­ics to store and query struc­tured and unstruc­tured data in Azure Data Lake Stor­age where data was stored in Delta Lake for­mat for high reli­a­bil­i­ty and per­for­mance. The project also uti­lized Spark Pools and SQL Server­less Pool in Azure Synapse Ana­lyt­ics to enable fast and flex­i­ble data pro­cess­ing and query­ing. Report­ing capa­bil­i­ties were cre­at­ed using Pow­er BI, which allowed Kon­tio to cre­ate inter­ac­tive dash­boards and visu­al­iza­tions for their business.

Sup­port­ing the archi­tec­ture’s oper­a­tion are essen­tial DevOps prac­tices, includ­ing infra­struc­ture-as-code, Azure DevOps for ver­sion con­trol and CI/CD pipelines. Azure Mon­i­tor pro­vides com­pre­hen­sive mon­i­tor­ing and alerts to main­tain sys­tem health and per­for­mance. Addi­tion­al­ly, the entire solu­tion is safe­guard­ed by Microsoft Defend­er for cloud, ensur­ing enter­prise-grade secu­ri­ty across all components.

Enhanced busi­ness effi­cien­cy, improved data qual­i­ty and self-ser­vice analytics

Imple­ment­ing the new solu­tion has brought sig­nif­i­cant ben­e­fits to Kon­tio. The qual­i­ty and con­sis­ten­cy of data used for report­ing and ana­lyt­ics have vast­ly improved, lead­ing to more reli­able results. The new solu­tion has also reduced data laten­cy and increased data avail­abil­i­ty, enabling faster deci­sion-mak­ing process­es. Fur­ther­more, the self-ser­vice ana­lyt­ics and insights avail­able through the new solu­tion have empow­ered busi­ness users by grant­i­ng them direct access to cru­cial data.

Kon­tio and Islet Group are look­ing for­ward to con­tin­u­ing their part­ner­ship and explor­ing new ways of lever­ag­ing data and ana­lyt­ics to sup­port Kontio’s busi­ness goals. The new solu­tion pro­vides a sol­id foun­da­tion for future devel­op­ment and inno­va­tion, as well as oppor­tu­ni­ties to inte­grate new data sources and unlock new insights. By har­ness­ing the pow­er of data and ana­lyt­ics, Kon­tio and Islet aim to deliv­er val­ue to cus­tomers and stake­hold­ers, while enhanc­ing Kontio’s posi­tion as a leader in log house production.

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Kon­tio­tuote Oy is the worlds largest log house man­u­fac­tur­er. Kon­tio was estab­lished 1973 and it has deliv­ered log hous­es to over 30 dif­fer­ent coun­tries. Kon­tio uses only PECF cer­ti­fied and renew­able Finnish wood. Kontio’s prod­uct range cov­ers a wide range of wood build­ings from pri­vate hol­i­day hous­es and pri­vate apart­ments to large projects and pub­lic buildings.