Data-driven sustainability
Ingka’s strategic evolution
ABOUT THIS SUCCESS STORY
Ingka Investments, in partnership with Xpand IT, centralized its database using Azure and Vue 3, enhancing data management in the renewable energy sector.
This enabled more informed decision-making and market-adapted strategies, promoting sustainable practices and optimizing investments.
SCOPE OF THIS SOLUTION
- Microsoft Azure
- Vue 3
- Data centralization
- Promotion of sustainability
Challenge: Data centralization and optimization of management practices
Ingka approached Xpand IT with the need to restructure its core database. Previously, Ingka relied on separate solutions and databases to manage their key data. This resulted in difficulty to manage data effectively across multiple tools. For instance, supplier data stored in Dataverse had to be transferred to SQL, and vice versa, for critical wind turbine data, preventing seamless integration into business processes.
The primary objective was clear: centralize all key asset data to ensure a single, reliable source of information, and allow users to manage the key data in a secure and reliable way. In addition, data needed to be digitized and organized into a sustainable database format to enable seamless integration with other projects and easy sharing across multiple solutions.
By undertaking this database restructuring project, Ingka Investment Renewable Energy aimed to:
Data management
Optimize its data management practices.
Decision-making
Make informed decisions based on accurate.
Asset management
Establish a more efficient and comprehensive asset management framework.
Solution: Data-driven sustainability with Azure
Xpand IT implemented a solution to restructure the Ingka Investments Renewable Energy database by leveraging the power of Azure and Vue 3 solutions.
On top of this significant challenge, it was also necessary to ensure that several applications using the database could continue functioning seamlessly while assuring centralization. This required a remarkable team effort, working together towards a common goal.
Azure and Vue technologies used in the solution provided a secure, scalable, easy-to-use experience. Azure’s robust cloud platform ensured reliable data storage and processing, while Vue’s JavaScript framework enabled seamless data visualization and interaction with a user-centric design approach.
This integration optimized data processing, connectivity and overall system performance.
In response to the growing demand for renewable energy solutions, the Ingka Investments Renewable Energy data centralization strategy provides a holistic view of asset performance, facilitating the identification of trends and optimizing energy generation to create a greener future. Using personalized workflows, Ingka can start tailoring its strategies to specific markets, regulatory frameworks and environmental conditions, ensuring optimal performance and maximizing the return on its renewable energy investments.
The emphasis on the user experience, facilitated by the Vue 3 framework, guaranteed that the stakeholders had an intuitive and engaging platform for data-driven decision-making.
By implementing this combined solution, Ingka Investments Renewable Energy has achieved centralized data management, enabling them to make informed decisions, optimize operations, and drive sustainable practices across their renewable energy portfolio.
By harnessing the power of data, Ingka can identify areas for improvement, streamline processes, and achieve greater efficiencies in managing its growing renewable energy assets.
By taking advantage of User Experience (UX) methodologies, Xpand IT’s goal was to create an intuitive, user-centered, dynamic experience that provided Ingka with the solution and functionalities needed for them to achieve operational performance and, ultimately, helping them become a data-driven organization by revolutionizing their internal operations.
"In crafting this experience, Xpand IT’s UX business unit relied on four key UX principles: findable, usable, useful and valuable. To ensure users can easily find their way and navigate efficiently, the experience map settled on contextual navigation flows."
Carlos Neves
Practice Lead, Xpand IT
Benefits: Centralized data and optimized sustainability
Customized strategies
Personalized workflows offer an opportunity to tailor strategies, optimizing renewable energy investments.
Sustainability optimization
Opportunities for sustainable practices, contribute to a greener future.
User-centered experience
Through UX methodologies, Ingka achieved improved operational performance.
Seamless integration
Prevents disruptions and enables efficient data flow.
"What really makes Xpand IT stand out from any other company I have worked with is their proactive, collaborative approach to developing solutions. Their team is fully engaged and continuously thinking with us to crystallise our requirements, driving the user experience and functionality of the app to the next level."
Ramses Alma
Program Manager, Ingka
Technologies
About Ingka Investments
Founded in 1943 in Småland, Sweden.
Ingka Group, owner of IKEA Retail.
Objectives
- Financial longevity of Ingka Group
- Accelerating the
- transformation of IKEA Retail
- Driving sustainability for Ingka and IKEA
Investments portfolio
- Forest land
- Renewable energy
- Financial and real
- Estate markets
- Circular economy
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