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"The first phase of the project was an eight-week sprint where we worked together to understand the sorts of data that were available, to ingest it into the Microsoft Azure digital platform, and to build the first Power BI dashboards to bring diverse sets of data together.”
“One of the issues we face when collecting data is that data exists in many different pockets with many different organisations in lots of different formats, so we have a real problem in bringing that together and making that usable.”
"Digital transformation is not a one-time project, but an ongoing journey that requires constant adaptation and learning."
“With Microsoft and state-of-the-art technologies, we’ve centralized our applications and brought more integration to our business processes. This gave us the opportunity to manage our business smoothly with the least amount of human intervention.”
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“Our next frontier is modernizing our processes, and there’s no better place to start than with the 15,000 people across our supply chain."
“When you put technology in the hands of our frontline workers, they embrace it and start to run with it. People are using technology in ways we never dreamed of.”
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