- Partnership will play a key role in Aggreko’s strategy to drive data efficiency
- Time taken to identify inventory shortages will be cut from 8 hours to 5 minutes
- Insights will help Aggreko create greater value for customers
18 June 2020, London – Aggreko, the global specialist provider of mobile modular power, temperature control and energy services, uses Azure Synapse Analytics to support its efforts to drive data efficiency across the business. This tool will help transform Aggreko’s existing data strategy through, for example, the integration of just-in-time inventory and increased operational efficiency.
Data helps Aggreko to drive value for its customers across the world, which range from powering the Rugby World Cup in Japan, to remote mines in Australia to providing power to the entire Caribbean island of St Croix.
Data has an increasingly important role to play for Aggreko as it continues to integrate digital solutions into its operations and respond to the global energy transition. As the adoption of renewables and volume of local generation increases, so too will the complexity of keeping supply and demand in balance. Sophisticated systems and controls are needed to integrate an ever-wider set of energy sources and interact with traded energy markets, all while ensuring stability, reliability and maximising efficiency.
For Aggreko, the Azure Data Lake Storage provides a central platform which can be accessed by data analysts and scientists from across the business. And Azure Synapse has enabled the business to improve collaboration and has provided a platform to allow data to be explored and queried without having to be moved outside of our central data lake. Using this platform has helped identify inventory shortages, reducing time to insight from 8 hours to 5 minutes, helping to streamline the data insights process and improve cost efficiency for the business.
Elizabeth Hollinger, Director of Data Insights at Aggreko, said “Data has an absolutely critical role to play in energy efficiency and as the global energy transition continues, this will become even more important. Previously, we were in a position where we didn’t have the ability to fully utilise our data history to avoid exceeding our storage limits. By utilising Azure Synapse’s limitless analytics platform to our data lake, we now have a single environment in place to explore and query data without needing to remove it. This means that we can achieve exponentially faster insights which ultimately means we are able to provide a better service for our customers”.
Jeremey Chapman, Director Product Marketing at Microsoft, said: “Azure Synapse is Microsoft’s limitless analytics platform that really brings together enterprise data warehousing and also big data processing into a single service environment.”
ABOUT AGGREKO
Since 1962, Aggreko has grown from a small local business to a global energy pioneer. We have more than 6,000 employees, operating in around 79 countries. With revenues of approximately GBP 1.6bn (USD 2.0 bn or Euros 1.8bn) in 2019, we are listed on the London Stock Exchange (AGK.L) and headquartered in Scotland.
We have grown to be a world-leading provider of mobile modular power, temperature control and energy services, suppling portable equipment for a wide range of uses. From unique commercial industrial projects, through to utility provision and humanitarian emergencies – we can bring our expertise and equipment to any location.
Aggreko specialises in serving eight key sectors: Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, Mining, Petrochemicals & Refining, Business Services & Construction, Events, Data Centres and Utilities. Across these, our equipment offers maximum fuel flexibility, using gas, diesel (including HFO), and renewable fuel sources. We offer microgrid and storage solutions and are developing our offer to include more tools to help our customers adapt to the energy transition the world is experiencing.
Aggreko draws together global expertise and the latest technology developments to go further for customers. The ability to provide power, heating and cooling will continue to open-up opportunity and create potential for individuals, communities, industries and societies all over the world.
Together and over time, we believe our services will make a massive difference.
For more information, please visit our local website at: aggreko.com
ABOUT AZURE SYNAPSE ANALYTICS
Azure Synapse is a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless or provisioned resources—at scale. Azure Synapse brings these two worlds together with a unified experience to ingest, prepare, manage, and serve data for immediate BI and machine learning needs.
