As one of the UK’s largest renewable electricity providers, this energy company faced a significant challenge in empowering its teams to access and leverage data effectively. With data scattered across multiple sources, the organization needed a unified platform to support self-service data exploration and lineage analysis, maximizing data value across business units and ensuring high data quality and governance.

 

Data is the lifeblood of this leading renewable energy provider’s operation, spanning solar, wind, and biomass initiatives across the UK and North America. But with data siloed across dozens of platforms—Azure, PowerBI, Oracle, and AWS Glue among them—teams struggled to access and make sense of the information they needed. Without a unified system, each department faced daily bottlenecks that slowed down data exploration, lineage analysis, and governance, ultimately obstructing data-driven insights critical to staying agile in a competitive market.

 

Alex Solutions transformed this landscape by building a centralized Enterprise Data Hub that brought every data source under one roof. This “One-Stop-Shop” platform enabled seamless self-service data exploration, lineage tracking, and comprehensive data governance across business units. Key components of the Alex platform, including Data Catalog, Discovery, Impact Analysis, and Data Sensitivity Profiling, automated the ingestion, cataloging, and management of millions of data assets, making data readily available to every team while ensuring quality and consistency across locations.

 

This energy provider chose Alex for its versatility and scale. Alex’s capability to manage vast data ecosystems and capture end-to-end data lineage allowed the organization to centralize data access and governance seamlessly. Automated connectors ingested over two million data assets from approximately 300 databases, linking more than 3.7 million relationships and capturing essential metadata for meaningful impact analysis. For the first time, business units had a clear and unified view of data, freeing them to independently explore, manage, and make decisions without dependency on centralized data support.

 

Within days of implementation, the company saw substantial benefits: a single, reliable data source now spanned 38 locations, fostering data consistency and enabling self-service access that empowered teams to find insights independently. Reduced dependency on data teams freed resources and accelerated decisions, helping business units respond more quickly to market changes and operational demands.

 

In the long run, Alex’s centralized governance capabilities are driving even greater value. As the organization scales, data governance standards are automatically applied across new regions and data assets, ensuring regulatory compliance and data integrity. Data has become a trusted and accessible resource, allowing teams to focus on advancing renewable energy efforts without being mired in data management complexity.

 

Reflecting on the change, the company’s Data Governance Lead stated, “Alex has enabled our teams to work with data confidently and autonomously. The platform’s seamless integration across our data sources provides the flexibility we need in our fast-evolving industry.”

 

By uniting its data under one platform, this renewable energy leader has solved its immediate data access challenges and established a sustainable, data-driven culture that supports its ongoing mission to power the future with renewable energy.

 

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Customer Overview

 

• Region: UK and North America

• Industry/Sector: Renewable Energy

 

Challenge

 

• Capability Area: Data Democratization and Self-Service Enablement

• Data Complexity: The organization struggled with data scattered across multiple sources, creating barriers to access and governance.

• Technical Landscape: Data existed across various platforms, complicating self-service exploration and lineage analysis.

• Operational Inconsistencies: The lack of a unified platform hindered teams from efficiently accessing and analyzing data independently.

 

Technologies

 

• Azure

• PowerBI

• Oracle

• SQL Server

• AWS Glue