Enabling High Performing Data Modernization for a Leading EdTech Company with Azure
Case Study Details:
Industry:
EdTech
Region:
North America
Technology:
Azure, Snowflake, Tableau, and Power BI
About the Client
A major EdTech service provider struggled with slow, complex, and outdated data pipelines built on legacy systems. The online education service provider wanted to modernize its D2L Brightspace software architecture to streamline data management, reliability, and multi-institution reporting, ensuring scalability. Evoke modernized software using customized Azure solutions. This improved the system’s security, simplified data management, and the multi-layer ETL.
Challenges
- Complex extraction from D2L Brightspace APIs
- Multiple data formats (BDS + ADS) with inconsistent schemas
- Slow performance due to legacy pipelines and manual processing
- High engineering effort for ingestion, cleansing, and staging
Solutions
The new architecture modernized the entire data platform using Azure Functions, Azure SQL, ADF, and Snowflake.
Results
- High-performance processing of large data sets
- Centralized multi-institution data warehouse
- Deep Azure integration
- Enterprise-grade security and governance