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Case Studies

Unified Data Warehouse and Visualization

A complex data ecosystem streamlined into one automated, scalable warehouse and visualization platform.

Client Challenge

A client needed to consolidate data from four separate external sources into a unified environment while maintaining compatibility with their existing internal datasets.

The challenge: Each partner delivered unique flat files with different formats, naming conventions, and update frequencies. The client wanted this combined data to flow seamlessly into their existing systems and power near real-time analytics.

Business Ask

“Can you collect data from four different external parties and create a model that allows this data to join with our existing data?”

Full Tilt Data was tasked with building an automated, scalable data warehouse and visualization layer that harmonized external inputs with existing enterprise data—without disrupting ongoing operations.

Solution

We enforce strong data governance principles to ensure data meaning and integrity.

  • AWS S3 for secure ingestion and storage of external flat files.
  • DBT for data transformations that standardized external schemas to align with internal naming conventions.
  • Snowflake for scalable, high-performance data warehousing.
  • Looker for advanced visualization and dashboarding.
  • GitHub Actions  and Docker for CI/CD automation and consistent environment management.

Implementation Highlights

We enforce strong data governance principles to ensure data meaning and integrity.

  • Multi-source Integration: Ingested and validated data from four unique external vendors with varying structures and delivery cadences.
  • Data Transformation: Standardized fields to align with the client’s existing data model, ensuring consistency and interoperability.
  • Dimensional Modeling: Built a dimensional schema that tied together both historical and newly ingested datasets.
  • Point-in-Time Design: Implemented a warehouse model that captured time-based snapshots, updated automatically every two hours.
  • Comprehensive Reporting: Delivered a reporting suite of 25+ custom Looker dashboards providing real-time insights across operations, partners, and performance metrics.

Impact

This unified architecture enabled the client to:

  • Eliminate manual data reconciliation between disparate sources.
  • Make faster, data-driven decisions backed by a single source of truth.
  • Gain near real-time visibility into partner and performance data.
  • Easily scale to onboard future external data providers with minimal rework.

Technologies Used

  • AWS S3
  • DBT
  • Snowflake
  • Looker
  • GitHub Actions
  • Docker

We provide customers the
ability to exchange and use data across different systems.

We enforce strong data governance principles to ensure data meaning and integrity.