Crickmay

Dec 9, 2023

Background and Challenge

An AgriTech pioneer, leading the frontier in providing advanced data management solutions and insights within the sugar, mining, and timber and transport sectors. With a vision to offer a data platform as a service, they cater to these industries by delivering valuable insights harvested from intricate data streams across Africa. In an era where data-driven decision- making is paramount, Crickmay recognized the need for a sophisticated platform that offers high performance, reliability, and superior data quality by seamlessly orchestrating data from diverse datasets and ensuring real-time, high availability access to data in a user-friendly manner. An additional burden for Crickmay was that their servers and infrastructure was spread across different data centres & providers making it costly, complicated and limiting their ability to scale as needed.

What We Did

We embarked on a transformative journey with Crickmay, focusing on

  • StrategicDefinition & Architecture – define the overarching strategy, sculpting a blueprint for the data platform that would serve as the backbone of Crickmay’s
  • TeamManagement- took the helm in managing diverse technical teams, ensuring the platform’s establishment was streamlined and efficient.
  • InnovativeIntegration – Given the vast industry knowledge and the multiplicity of data sets from various service providers, PPT ensured that the platform was technologically advanced, yet  The aim was to amplify the industry’s knowledge base and provide unhindered access to big data.
  • OneEnvironment – We assisted them in moving all of their data, integrations and platform to a new environment which has reduced their overall monthly cost by 30%, and made it easier to manage and maintain as well as giving them the ability to scale easily as their business grows

Results

The newly constructed AgriTech platform surpassed expectations. Not only does it leverage the latest in big data and analytics, but it also brings to the table:

  • Enhanced Decision-making- By focusing on the quality of data and reporting, decision-making processes within the industry have been notably
  • Knowledge Contribution- The platform is now a beacon of information, contributing immensely to the AgriTech space, both locally and on an international scale
  • Real-time Accessibility – With technological innovations embedded within, the platform guarantees real-time and high availability access, ensuring data consumption is effortless
  • Crickmay’s platform integrates and collects data from 29 different systems across their Agritech customer base with data totaling 4TB in size consisting of over 200 million rows of data

 

PPT Group’s collaboration with Crickmay & Associates is a testament to the transformative power of technology when guided by vision, strategy, and expertise. As Crickmay continues to influence the AgriTech sector, PPT Group stands proud of the platform’s role in shaping the industry’s future