Mero has partnered with Google to provide an efficient cloud-based analytics solution, called Cloud Analytics OnRamp. By utilizing our expertise in SAP and understanding the complexities of moving to a modern architecture, Cloud Analytics OnRamp has been created to rapidly relocate your data into the Google Cloud Analytics Platform, BigQuery using process automation.

Google leads the cloud-based analytics platform market, recently acknowledged as the Leader in Cloud Data Warehousing in the 2021 Forrester Wave. insideBIGDATA has indicated that 60% of mature organisations will move all their analytics to the cloud within the next two years. The benefits are great, but for many businesses, it is not an easy task to plan and execute.

If your organisation is discussing a move to the cloud, partway through the transition or stuck somewhere in between, Cloud Analytics OnRamp is designed for you.

Cloud Analytics OnRamp rapidly provides a unified view of all your organisational data, from any SAP, SaaS or on-premise source. Once this view is established, the data and new capabilities are available to drive business value from within the Google Cloud Analytics Platform.

Often organisations struggle with the fragmentation of data when moving data to the cloud. Rather than invest in data virtualization as a temporary operating space, our approach is to deliver over existing source systems, datamarts, and data warehouses, building up the unified business layer in a similar timeframe to the virtualization option. This avoids the fragmentation of your data when you migrate from on-premise to the cloud. From there, a phased remediation/or removal of legacy warehouses can occur.

Cloud Analytics OnRamp establishes a secure and governed cloud analytics foundation that is easily deployable, Mero manages the version updates and support.

On top of this foundation layer, there is also an application layer, using best-in-class tools and standardised migration/automation processes that drive Analytics and Artificial Intelligence to transform your business. The application layer includes landing, transformation and presentation of the SAP (or other) data ingested. Mero can assist with building on top of these data layers, or we can help enable your in-house data engineers to swiftly develop them in a well-governed environment.

By connecting its on-premise data warehouse with BigQuery, Briscoe Group is achieving fast, automated daily data reporting in under 3 minutes while creating the potential for new insights to drive its business.

GOOGLE CLOUD RESULTS

• Daily manual sales reports are now automated with 75% time saved
• Manual sellthrough reports that were prone to human error now run under automation in less than 3 minutes
• Data is now combined from multiple sources to create new analytics offerings and improved business intelligence
• All improvements achieved while maintaining highest standards of data integrity, security, and privacy

Briscoe Group (BGP) is a pioneer of the New Zealand retail landscape. Running close to 90 stores across three brands and a strong online presence, BGP is a well regarded mainstay for shoppers across the nation.

In 2008, BGP adopted an on-premise SAP business warehouse, which underpins its retail and supply chain operations to this day. But as the company began considerations around an improved data strategy, BGP saw a need to extract the raw data into a dedicated data service that could unlock new analytics opportunities.

“We wanted more flexibility, more agility, and the ability to bring together a range of external data feeds. We also wanted the ability to experiment, which would be a challenge to do inside a traditional, on-premise data warehouse.” says Jeffrey Westcott, IT Manager at BGP.

Having a long-term technical partnership with Mero/CDP Group, BGP explored its options to develop a hybrid model where it would maintain its on-premise warehouse while building a new data platform in the cloud.