Anna, a key stakeholder at Esmia, shared her positive experience with Datuum:
“Working with intelligent people who understand our challenges and provide effective solutions makes a significant difference. Datuum has transformed our workflow, saving time and reducing errors. Our team morale has improved, and we can now deliver results faster and more efficiently.”
Esmia, a leading company in the energy modeling and consulting industry, was facing significant challenges in their data processing and team collaboration. They needed a robust solution to minimize manual operations, scale their data operations, boost performance and streamline workflows. Datuum stepped in to address these issues, providing a way to automate and optimize data operations.
Esmia specializes in complex modeling projects that generate millions of data points, requiring sophisticated tools and efficient processes to manage and interpret the data.
Esmia’s primary challenge was performance-related, especially in projects where they had to model multiple scenarios for multiple regions. Extracting results of the model for clients often took up to half a day, consuming valuable time and resources. This process also monopolized Excel on their computers, hindering other tasks and causing significant inefficiencies.
With ten team members, seven of whom were involved in modeling, Esmia faced difficulties in collaboration. Changes made to one project were not automatically propagated to others, necessitating manual duplication of changes. This lack of a centralized workflow led to disorganization and increased the risk of errors.
Esmia’s models produced millions of data points, creating a need to simplify and aggregate the data for easier understanding by both their team and clients. This complexity made debugging and client communication challenging, requiring a solution to streamline these processes.
Datuum provided an efficient solution to Esmia’s challenges, offering significant improvements in performance, data management, and collaboration.
Datuum drastically improved performance, reducing processing time by 60% to 75%. Even with large projects, results were now generated within 20 minutes. This improvement allowed Esmia to deliver results faster and more efficiently, enhancing their overall productivity.
Datuum enabled Esmia to centralize their data management. A canonical data model was built to store data, configurations and aggregations, automatically propagating changes across all projects. This streamlined workflow improved collaboration and reduced the potential for manual errors.
The centralized data model provided by Datuum allowed easier access for all users and facilitated connections between different models. Esmia could now prepare inputs for other models directly from the database, saving time and ensuring data consistency. This also enabled the integration of different tools, further enhancing efficiency.
Datuum provided a graphical user interface for the users to build transformations and pipelines. Once a pipeline is run, it’s run in the cloud, freeing up computer resources and allowing team members to focus on other tasks. This is crucial in managing large projects with numerous scenarios, ensuring that data processing did not interfere with other tasks like it did when Excel was used.
Esmia saved up to 75% in processing time, translating to approximately 150 hours per month. Which is almost a full time employee. It’s a significant time saving for a small team.
The combined expense of Microsoft Azure and Datuum is significantly lower than the monthly cost savings, making it a highly cost-effective solution when compared to the higher costs associated with employee time.
Employees experienced less frustration and wasted time, leading to better job satisfaction and increased productivity. Working with reliable software that eliminated inefficiencies contributed significantly to team morale.
Automated processes and centralized data management reduced the risk of manual errors, enhancing the accuracy and reliability of Esmia’s models and results. The transition from Excel to a more robust system minimized the chances of mistakes and improved the overall quality of their work.
Datuum’s capabilities allowed Esmia to simplify and aggregate data, making it easier to communicate results to clients. Also introduction of Power BI dashboards provided a dynamic and visually appealing way to present data, improving client satisfaction and understanding.
Datuum has proven to be an invaluable tool for Esmia, addressing their critical challenges and delivering significant improvements in performance, collaboration, and data management. This partnership exemplifies how intelligent solutions can drive success and enhance business operations.