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Boa Vista's Digital Transformation with Google Cloud

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Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Big Data Analytics Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Databases
Applicable Industries	Construction & Infrastructure Retail
Applicable Functions	Product Research & Development
Use Cases	Construction Management Infrastructure Inspection
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Training
Challenge	Boa Vista Serviços, a leading analytical-intelligence and credit-bureau player in Brazil, was facing challenges with its previous technology infrastructure. The company's physical servers located in three data centers were hindering its speed and ability to innovate. Limited scalability of resources and processes meant that they could not train many analytical models simultaneously or implement modern machine-learning techniques. One of its products was on the verge of halting sales because the company's processing capacity had reached its peak, directly impacting business expansion. The company needed to embrace digital transformation by migrating all its information from physical servers to the cloud. They also needed to switch from a traditional organizational model to a squad-based model to focus more efficiently on various technology and business aspects and challenges. Read More
About Customer	Boa Vista Serviços is a leading analytical-intelligence and credit-bureau company in Brazil. The company has an extensive database of files on approximately 280 million people and corporations. Using this invaluable information, the company develops solutions to support credit activities and protection for its nearly 21,000 active customers, including financial institutions, fintechs, and Brazil’s largest corporate and retail groups. The company's work is driven by data and it employs over 800 people. Boa Vista's business is robust and requires cutting-edge technology to meet market needs quickly, deliver increasingly relevant products to its customers, and maintain a competitive edge. Read More
Solution	Boa Vista chose Google Cloud as its partner for digital transformation. The first area to be migrated was big data, where there was an urgent need to increase processing capacity. The company created a centralized data lake in the cloud to deliver more robust processing, high scalability, and improved information governance. With support from Google Cloud’s team, Boa Vista adapted its big data infrastructure to the cloud in a modern, efficient way. The company also migrated nearly 500 virtual machines (VMs) to the cloud using the Migrate to Virtual Machines solution. For products that needed to be rebuilt, they were directly migrated to Google Cloud’s data-analytics tools such as BigQuery and Dataproc. The company also automated more than 1,000 hours of operational work from Boa Vista’s infrastructure team. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Big Data Analytics

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Databases

Applicable Industries

Construction & Infrastructure

Retail

Applicable Functions

Product Research & Development

Use Cases

Construction Management

Infrastructure Inspection

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Training

Challenge

Boa Vista Serviços, a leading analytical-intelligence and credit-bureau player in Brazil, was facing challenges with its previous technology infrastructure. The company's physical servers located in three data centers were hindering its speed and ability to innovate. Limited scalability of resources and processes meant that they could not train many analytical models simultaneously or implement modern machine-learning techniques. One of its products was on the verge of halting sales because the company's processing capacity had reached its peak, directly impacting business expansion. The company needed to embrace digital transformation by migrating all its information from physical servers to the cloud. They also needed to switch from a traditional organizational model to a squad-based model to focus more efficiently on various technology and business aspects and challenges.

About Customer

Boa Vista Serviços is a leading analytical-intelligence and credit-bureau company in Brazil. The company has an extensive database of files on approximately 280 million people and corporations. Using this invaluable information, the company develops solutions to support credit activities and protection for its nearly 21,000 active customers, including financial institutions, fintechs, and Brazil’s largest corporate and retail groups. The company's work is driven by data and it employs over 800 people. Boa Vista's business is robust and requires cutting-edge technology to meet market needs quickly, deliver increasingly relevant products to its customers, and maintain a competitive edge.

Solution

Boa Vista chose Google Cloud as its partner for digital transformation. The first area to be migrated was big data, where there was an urgent need to increase processing capacity. The company created a centralized data lake in the cloud to deliver more robust processing, high scalability, and improved information governance. With support from Google Cloud’s team, Boa Vista adapted its big data infrastructure to the cloud in a modern, efficient way. The company also migrated nearly 500 virtual machines (VMs) to the cloud using the Migrate to Virtual Machines solution. For products that needed to be rebuilt, they were directly migrated to Google Cloud’s data-analytics tools such as BigQuery and Dataproc. The company also automated more than 1,000 hours of operational work from Boa Vista’s infrastructure team.

Impact #1	The migration to Google Cloud has significantly impacted Boa Vista’s analytics department. The team can now parallelize the processing of its analytical models without limits, using complex machine-learning techniques, which has increased the product’s operational efficiency. Model processing is up to 20x faster in some cases. The new infrastructure allows provisioning new environments in minutes instead of months and scaling the infrastructure according to demand and available financial resources. The costs of migrated products were also reduced. The company has also been able to launch new products, such as Analytika and the Vulnerability Index, which would have been unthinkable without the cloud migration. The migration has also enabled the creation of de-identified data catalogs of the products in the data lake, making it easier for business professionals to access the information, boosting their autonomy and input in the technology and business sections.

Impact #1

The migration to Google Cloud has significantly impacted Boa Vista’s analytics department. The team can now parallelize the processing of its analytical models without limits, using complex machine-learning techniques, which has increased the product’s operational efficiency. Model processing is up to 20x faster in some cases. The new infrastructure allows provisioning new environments in minutes instead of months and scaling the infrastructure according to demand and available financial resources. The costs of migrated products were also reduced. The company has also been able to launch new products, such as Analytika and the Vulnerability Index, which would have been unthinkable without the cloud migration. The migration has also enabled the creation of de-identified data catalogs of the products in the data lake, making it easier for business professionals to access the information, boosting their autonomy and input in the technology and business sections.

Benefit #1	Ninefold increase in the number of analytical models created
Benefit #2	Time to ingest large volumes of data reduced from up to 24+ hours to a few minutes
Benefit #3	Ability to train models between three and five times longer than with the previous environment

Benefit #1

Ninefold increase in the number of analytical models created

Benefit #2

Time to ingest large volumes of data reduced from up to 24+ hours to a few minutes

Benefit #3

Ability to train models between three and five times longer than with the previous environment

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Boa Vista's Digital Transformation with Google Cloud

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