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Case Study: Wehkamp cuts operational costs 70% and doubles revenue with Databricks

Wehkamp Case StudySourced & dated by Case Study Desk
Key facts · TL;DR
Company
Wehkamp
Industry
Retail & Consumer Goods
Challenge
A traditional data warehouse couldn't scale with business growth.
Headline result
Moving from Hadoop to a unified analytics platform on AWS

Key results

70%
Reduction in operational costs
2x
Increase in revenue
from increased customer engagement
100s
Models built per day

The challenge

Wehkamp, a Dutch online retailer, ran a traditional data warehouse that couldn't scale to support its business growth, creating data silos that slowed innovation and time-to-market for new features.

The solution

Wehkamp moved to Databricks on AWS for a unified, collaborative analytics platform that democratized data access and enabled rapid machine learning model development and deployment at scale.

The results, in context

Wehkamp reported a 70% reduction in operational costs and a 2x increase in revenue driven by increased customer engagement, while building hundreds of models per day.

Products used

Databricks Databricks Data Intelligence Platform