The client is one of India's foremost stainless steel manufacturers, operating across 40+ countries with a production ecosystem spanning plant systems, MES, OT devices, ERP platforms, and numerous internal tools. At this scale, having a reliable, unified view of operations is a business necessity. And for an organization generating data across dozens of systems and geographies every hour of every day, the gap between data collected and insight delivered had become an operational issue. Cloud4C helped solved it.
Data was flowing constantly across the organization but never coming together. Plant systems, OT devices, SAP ERP, MES, and OLTP tools each operated in their own silo, producing data that no single team could see in full. Leaders were working from delayed, manually assembled reports. Analysts were spending more time extracting data than interpreting it. And with a delayed view of plant KPIs or early warning signals, the approach was more reactive than proactive.
Cloud4C established a secure Azure landing zone as the foundation and built an end-to-end data lake platform that pulled together and consolidated every major data source in the client's operational landscape. Azure Data Factory and Azure Functions handled ingestion from OT, IoT, SAP ERP, MES, MSSQL, and OLTP systems. Azure Fabric processed the streams into business-level insights and Power BI dashboards gave thousands of users a live, role-specific view of plant KPIs and daily operations with continuous platform delivery.
Under 10s data delay across near real-time operations visibility
60% reduction in report preparation time
2000+ users with live access to plant KPIs & dashboards
Unified OT, IoT, ERP, and MES data on a single Azure platform
Reduced infrastructure costs