Category: Retail

HEMA is a household Dutch retail brand name since 1926, providing daily convenience products using unique design. This post describes how HEMA used Amazon DataZone to build their data mesh and enable streamlined data access across multiple business areas. It explains HEMA’s unique journey of deploying Amazon DataZone, the key challenges they overcame, and the transformative benefits they have realized since deployment in May 2024. From establishing an enterprise-wide data inventory and improving data discoverability, to enabling decentralized data sharing and governance, Amazon DataZone has been a game changer for HEMA.

As businesses strive to make informed decisions, the amount of data being generated and required for analysis is growing exponentially. This trend is no exception for Dafiti, an ecommerce company that recognizes the importance of using data to drive strategic decision-making processes. With the ever-increasing volume of data available, Dafiti faces the challenge of effectively managing and extracting valuable insights from this vast pool of information to gain a competitive edge and make data-driven decisions that align with company business objectives. The growing need for storage space to maintain data from over 90 sources and the functionality available on the new Amazon Redshift node types, including managed storage, data sharing, and zero-ETL integrations, led us to migrate from DC2 to RA3 nodes. In this post, we share how we handled the migration process and provide further impressions of our experience.