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Modernization Case Studies

Estates in the thousands of jobs and millions of lines of code — Databricks, DBT + Snowflake, BigQuery, open PySpark, Polars, and Iceberg on AWS, Azure, and GCP.

18
Case Studies
51,700+
Jobs Modernized
$99.4M+
Total Savings

SAS — Open Engine & Iceberg

Grocery & CPG

National Grocer: SAS to Open PySpark

SAS → EMR Serverless + Glue

5,100
Jobs
4.4M
LOC
$7.4M
Savings

A US grocer converted 5,100 Grid and DI Studio jobs to plain Apache PySpark on EMR and Glue — same S3 prefixes, no Databricks or Snowflake control plane.

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P&C Insurance

P&C Carrier: SAS to Polars

SAS → Polars on Kubernetes

2,700
Programs
2.1M
LOC
$3.6M
Savings

Actuarial and statutory jobs with a 3.4 GB median working set left a 16-node Grid for Polars LazyFrames. 41 programs over 64 GB used Spark on purpose, not by accident.

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Industrial Manufacturing

Manufacturer: SAS to Iceberg (AWS / Azure / GCP)

SAS → Iceberg on three clouds

6,400
Jobs
5.4M
LOC
$9.2M
Savings

Three SAS Grids, one Iceberg spec: Glue+S3, ADLS+Hive Metastore, BigLake+Dataproc. Same PySpark modules, three catalog adapters, no forced lakehouse vendor.

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Databricks Modernization Case Studies

Payments & Card Issuing

Card Issuer: COBOL to Databricks

COBOL + JCL → Databricks

3,800
Programs
6.2M
LOC
$11.4M
Savings

A US card issuer converted 3,800 COBOL batch programs, 890 copybooks, and 1,420 JCL members to PySpark on Databricks — COMP-3, VSAM, and DB2, not a rehost.

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Insurance & Reinsurance

Global Insurance: Alteryx to Databricks

Alteryx → Databricks

2,800
Workflows
14 mo
Duration
$5.2M
Savings

A global reinsurance firm replaced 2,800 Alteryx workflows with PySpark pipelines on Databricks, eliminating per-seat licensing and cutting batch runtimes by 70%.

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Energy & Utilities

Energy Giant: DataStage to Databricks

DataStage → Databricks

3,400
Jobs
16 mo
Duration
$7.1M
Savings

A multinational energy company modernized 3,400 DataStage parallel jobs to Databricks Delta Lake, achieving near-real-time pipeline execution and unified governance via Unity Catalog.

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Telecommunications

Top Telecom: SAS to Databricks

SAS → Databricks

4,200
Programs
18 mo
Duration
$8.5M
Savings

One of the world's largest telecom operators converted 4,200 SAS programs — including complex macro libraries and SAS/STAT models — to PySpark and MLflow on Databricks.

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Financial Services

Asset Management: Informatica to Databricks

Informatica → Databricks

1,800
Mappings
9 mo
Duration
$4.3M
Savings

A top-tier asset management firm automated conversion of 1,800 Informatica PowerCenter mappings to Databricks Workflows, slashing licensing costs and accelerating time-to-insight.

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Snowflake Modernization Case Studies

Logistics & Supply Chain

Global Logistics: Talend to Snowflake

Talend → Snowflake

1,500
Jobs
8 mo
Duration
$3.2M
Savings

A global logistics provider replaced 1,500 Talend Studio jobs with Snowpark and Snowflake Tasks, achieving elastic scalability across 40+ countries without infrastructure overhead.

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Pharmaceutical

Global Pharma: SAS to Snowflake

SAS → Snowflake

3,100
Programs
12 mo
Duration
$6.8M
Savings

A global pharmaceutical company modernized 3,100 SAS programs supporting clinical trial analytics to Snowflake, preserving full regulatory audit trails and column-level lineage.

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Government

Federal Agency: DataStage to Snowflake

DataStage → Snowflake

2,600
Jobs
15 mo
Duration
$5.5M
Savings

A large federal agency decommissioned on-premises DataStage infrastructure by converting 2,600 jobs to Snowflake SQL pipelines, meeting FedRAMP compliance requirements throughout.

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Media & Entertainment

Media Conglomerate: Alteryx to Snowflake

Alteryx → Snowflake

1,200
Workflows
6 mo
Duration
$1.9M
Savings

A leading media conglomerate accelerated audience analytics by converting 1,200 Alteryx workflows to Snowpark, enabling self-service analytics across 15 business units in the cloud.

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Manufacturing

Auto Manufacturer: ODI to Snowflake

ODI → Snowflake

2,100
Scenarios
11 mo
Duration
$4.7M
Savings

A global automotive manufacturer translated 2,100 ODI scenarios and Knowledge Modules to Snowflake SQL and Task DAGs, retiring legacy Oracle infrastructure and cutting TCO by 55%.

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dbt + Snowflake Case Studies

Health Insurance / Payer

Health Payer: Alteryx to DBT + Snowflake

Alteryx → DBT models + Snowpark

2,400
Workflows
1.9M
LOC
$4.8M
Savings

A US payer turned 2,400 Gallery workflows into 1,860 DBT models and 540 named Snowpark exceptions — Git, grain tests, Gallery off.

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Airline & Operations

Airline: DataStage to DBT + Snowflake

DataStage → DBT models + Snowpark

3,200
Jobs
2.7M
LOC
$6.1M
Savings

A global airline converted 3,200 DataStage jobs and 410 sequences to 2,140 DBT models. C transformers and IPC stayed on a named Snowpark list.

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BigQuery Modernization Case Studies

Healthcare

Healthcare Provider: SAS to BigQuery

SAS → BigQuery

1,900
Scripts
9 mo
Duration
$4.0M
Savings

A major healthcare provider modernized 1,900 SAS scripts supporting patient analytics and claims processing to BigQuery and Dataform, achieving HIPAA-compliant serverless scale.

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E-commerce

E-commerce Giant: Informatica to BigQuery

Informatica → BigQuery

2,400
Mappings
10 mo
Duration
$3.2M
Savings

A leading e-commerce platform converted 2,400 Informatica PowerCenter mappings to BigQuery SQL and Dataform, enabling real-time personalization and sub-second query response at petabyte scale.

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Consulting

Consulting Firm: Alteryx to BigQuery

Alteryx → BigQuery

1,100
Workflows
7 mo
Duration
$2.5M
Savings

A global consulting firm standardised client delivery by modernizing 1,100 Alteryx workflows to BigQuery SQL and Cloud Composer, enabling reproducible, governed analytics pipelines at scale.

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Targets: Snowflake Databricks Google Cloud Azure AWS PySpark Polars Iceberg DBT SQLMesh
Sources: SAS Alteryx Talend Qlik DataStage Informatica COBOL Oracle Teradata SSIS