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A warehouse is not a foundation until something lands in it

We build the cloud data platform and the pipelines that keep it current — with commerce data models and quality rules already in place, so it arrives analytics-ready rather than empty.

Two ways this usually goes wrong

The empty platform

The empty platform

The warehouse gets built, the invoice gets paid, and then somebody has to work out what a customer is. Six months later the platform is real and the analytics still are not, because nobody modelled the domain.
The pipeline nobody owns

The pipeline nobody owns

Ingestion was a project, not a service. So when a connector breaks, a source changes its schema, or a backfill is needed, it is discovered by someone noticing the numbers look wrong.

The platform

On Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric or BigQuery — whichever you have, or whichever fits.

Architecture and layered modelling

Architecture and layered modelling

Raw to clean to analytics-ready, designed so the layers mean something rather than just existing.
Commerce data models pre built

Commerce data models, pre-built

Item, order, seller, settlement and marketing data modelled before we start, plus our own quality rules. This is the difference between a platform and a foundation.
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Governance and access control

Who can see what, and the lineage to prove where a number came from.
Cloud cost management

Cloud cost management

Built in from the start, because a warehouse that works and costs too much gets switched off anyway.

And the movement layer underneath

Batch integration

Source integration across commerce, ERP, marketing and advertising platforms — managed connectors where they fit, custom API work where they do not — with transformation, modelling and orchestration.

Real-time streaming

Event and telemetry pipelines for stock sync, personalisation, and plant or device data.

Reliability operations

Discrepancy investigation, backfills, broken-ingestion recovery and monitoring. Keeping data flowing accurately day after day, not building it once and walking away.

Where we have built this

Steve Madden Australia

Enterprise, point-of-sale and marketing data unified into one analytics-ready warehouse, with conversational analytics now deploying on top of it. We built the ingestion pipelines behind it.

ARASCO

Real-time manufacturing and sustainability data unified across more than ten plants, with the plant-data pipelines feeding it.

Tracer

A multi-year embedded pipeline operation — connector onboarding, transformation and modelling, backfills, and data-accuracy assurance at production scale.

What sits on top

The foundation is worth building because of what it carries. Most clients arrive here on the way to something else.

Three ways to buy this

Decision Sprint 2

Decision Sprint

Six weeks, fixed scope, one decision domain. You get a working pack running in shadow mode and a measured read on what it is worth before you commit to more.

Managed pod 2

Managed pod

A standing Iksula team that runs the layer for you — owns the exceptions, the adoption and the outcome, not just the uptime.

Transformation programme 2

Transformation programme

Outcome-based, where the scope is a business result rather than a deliverable list.

Frequently asked questions

It depends more on what you already own than on the platforms themselves. A Microsoft estate with Power BI and Azure has a different obvious answer from a business already running Spark workloads. We will tell you where the genuine differences are and where the vendors are describing the same thing in different words.

Often more so. The two common entry points are a platform that costs more than expected, and one that works but has no commerce meaning in it — tables exist, but nothing knows what an order is. Both are cheaper to fix than to rebuild.

Both, and we would rather run them. Building ingestion is a project with an end date; keeping it accurate is not. Most of the value in this line is in the second part.

The honest answer is that it depends on how many sources there are and how well anyone understands them. We scope it after looking, not before, and we will tell you which sources are going to be the difficult ones.

Start with one decision

Tell us the decision your team argues about most, and we will tell you what it would take to make it once, properly, on the data you already have.

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DJ Basumatari

Chief Executive Officer

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Abhishek Jain

Director - Solutions & Innovation

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