CLIENT STORY

How Walki achieved smarter decision-making with a unified data platform

Building a scalable data platform for faster, smarter business insights 

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Walki's challenge: decentralized data limiting business intelligence

Walki Group is a Finnish company that specializes in the manufacturing of technical laminates and protective packaging materials through environmentally friendly solutions, often using recyclable and renewable materials in its products. 

Walki knew the value of refined data and how critical the insights it can provide are for its business growth. But their existing reporting system was decentralized, making it difficult to generate reliable insights across the organization and support the expanding business. A unified solution was needed to meet the organization's comprehensive business analytics requirements.

Decentralized vs. centralized systems

In a decentralized reporting system data collection, processing, and reporting are managed separately across different departments, teams, and systems. Without a centralized approach to defining key metrics and data structures, each team interpreted and redefined them individually, leading to inconsistencies and a lack of standardized, transparent reporting across the organization.

When Walki transitioned to a new ERP system, they saw it as the perfect opportunity to modernize their data platform as well. The goal was to replace outdated and siloed reporting with a unified, scalable solution; one that could provide clear, transparent, reliable, and actionable insights for better decision making across all levels. Walki aimed to turn its data into a strategic business intelligence asset, leveraging a centralized model.

The solution: a unified, scalable data platform for transparent reporting

To achieve consistent reporting and enabling data-driven decision making, Walki partnered with Recordly and Meltlake, part of the Futurice Family, to redesign their entire data platform architecture, including renewed data warehousing and reporting systems.

The modernized data platform solution enables Walki to:

  • Build high-quality data products faster with automated data modeling and testing
  • Ensure full data traceability for increased transparency and trust
  • Enhance reporting usability with clear, visual dashboards.

Reports are now instantly accessible in an intuitive, visual format, instead of just tables, allowing teams to grasp key insights right away.

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The techy part - developing high-quality data products faster

Using dbt and Microsoft Fabric, the platform was redesigned to meet Walki’s comprehensive business analytics requirements. With dbt, we were able to develop high-quality data products faster by streamlining modeling, ensuring consistency in naming conventions from the start, and enhancing transparency in data transformations.

We ensured that modeling definitions remained consistent across the data warehouse by unifying key calculations, such as exchange rate and unit conversion logic. This improved transparency and reusability across different use cases. Additionally, optimized transformation logic and processing enhanced performance, enabling faster data loads and more efficient workflows.

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The impact: faster insights, smarter decision-making, and scalable analytics

This transformation is already changing the way Walki operates. New reports can be adopted with minimal training, and users can immediately see key performance metrics without spending hours searching through data. 

By providing a clear and structured approach to reporting, Walki has laid the foundation for scalable, unified analytics - ensuring consistent and resilient data-driven operations.

With a modern, unified data platform, Walki has transformed its analytics and reporting - empowering teams with clear, actionable insights to drive business growth.

“The outcome of the project provides us with transparent data pipelines, faster and more reliable deployment, and reduced costs. With the new solution, we can easily view and analyze data processes both in detail and as a whole. Anyone can now easily understand the process without the need to dig through piles of separate documentation.”

– Henrik Ahnger, ICT Manager Business Intelligence and Reporting, Walki Group

Key outcomes

Faster, clearer insights

Employees can instantly access key metrics 

Reliable data pipelines

Eliminating reporting inconsistencies and ensuring transparency

Scalable reporting 

The new reporting framework supports future expansion across new sites

Reduced onboarding time

New employees get up to speed faster with intuitive reports that don’t require weeks of interpreting.

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