Retail & Consumer GoodsSourced

Case Study: Emart24 cuts time to insights 96% and operational costs 93% with Databricks

Emart24 Case StudySourced & dated by Case Study Desk

Key facts · TL;DR

Company

Emart24

Industry

Retail & Consumer Goods

Challenge

A legacy platform took 27 hours to complete analyses.

Headline result

Managing 6 billion daily transactions across 6,500+ stores

Key results

96%

Reduction in time to insights

from 27 hours to 1 hour

93%

Reduction in operational costs

from $930,000 to $70,000

The challenge

Emart24, a South Korean convenience store chain, ran a legacy data platform that struggled to manage over 6 billion daily transactions across 6,500+ stores, taking 27 hours to complete analyses.

The solution

Emart24 migrated to the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform on Azure, enabling faster data processing and automated infrastructure management.

“With Databricks, our data team is now able to efficiently perform data compression, skipping, partition pruning and caching.”
JL
Jae Kyung Lee
CIO, IT System and Digital, Emart24

The results, in context

Emart24 reduced time to insights by 96%, from 27 hours to 1 hour, and cut operational costs by 93%, from $930,000 to $70,000.

Products used

Databricks Databricks Data Intelligence Platform