Industry

Education

Client

CCEE

Building a Modern Snowflake Data Warehouse for CCEE

The Problem

CCEE's data infrastructure was fragmented and fragile, relying heavily on Google Sheets, Excel files, and a privately-hosted Microsoft SQL Server. These systems created bottlenecks and confusion across the organization:

Spreadsheets:

  • No centralized source of truth; staff created multiple versions of datasets.

  • Lack of governance: inconsistent formats, uncontrolled editing, and no data validation.

  • Static dashboards that needed manual updates each year.

  • Frequent duplication of effort and heavy reliance on manual data preparation.

  • Performance issues with large datasets, slowing down both spreadsheets and dashboards.

Private SQL Server:

  • Owned and managed by a single staff member, creating a major access risk.

  • Manual updates were required for new or revised data.

  • After the staff member left, the database became inaccessible to the team.

CCEE needed a scalable, resilient, and intelligent data infrastructure—one that could automate, streamline, and empower their teams with fast and reliable insights.

Our Approach

Impact and Effects

✅ Turnaround Time Slashed: Ad-hoc reporting time reduced from 2 weeks to under 20 minutes. ✅ Unified & Reliable Source of Truth: All staff now pull from the same clean, governed datasets—no duplicates, no confusion. ✅ Insight Across Systems: Integrated multiple datasets and domains, unlocking more comprehensive, cross-functional analysis. ✅ Sustainable & Scalable: Dashboards no longer rely on manual updates. New data is automatically pulled, curated, and fed into dashboards with minimal human intervention. ✅ Empowered People with Data: With infrastructure in place, CCEE’s talented analysts and subject-matter experts can focus on asking better questions, not cleaning data.