Customer Success Story : Sentium Consulting

"Scaleway's exceptional infrastructure and outstanding support have been instrumental in enabling us at Sentium Consulting to deliver innovative and high-performance solutions. Their commitment to reliability and scalability has truly empowered our clients to achieve remarkable success." - Henry Smith, CEO and Founder of Sentium Consulting

What is Sentium?

Sentium Consulting is a leading provider of cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence and data analytics solutions designed to cater to various industries, including healthcare, real estate, pharma, finance, and hospitality. We work closely with our clients to develop tailored solutions that address industry-specific challenges, streamline operations, and foster growth.

How Sentium deals with client needs

Customers in these industries are typically looking for answers to:

• Improve operational efficiency by automating manual processes and providing real-time insights
• Enhance decision-making capabilities through advanced analytics and predictive modelling
• Support growth and innovation by identifying new market opportunities and optimising resource allocation
• Help in managing risks and ensuring compliance with industry regulations and standards
• Facilitate seamless integration and interoperability between systems and technologies
• Drive digital transformation and modernization of legacy systems
• Enhance customer experience through personalised and targeted services

Those needs were addressed by Sentium Consulting through a close collaboration with clients with the purpose to design and implement tailored AI and data analytics solutions that align with their specific business objectives and industry requirements. By leveraging state-of-the-art technologies and deep industry expertise, Sentium Consulting empowers organisations to enhance performance, achieve growth, and maintain a competitive edge in their markets.

Challenges faced by Sentium’s client

One of Sentium’s clients aimed to provide individuals with a platform to support them in making informed decisions about their land, exploring development possibilities, and assessing property value. They faced the following challenges:

• Building an interactive platform with advanced mapping capabilities and diverse data sets
• Ensuring the platform was scalable, reliable, and maintainable
• Integrating multiple technologies and data sources efficiently and securely

Sentium’s solution

In partnership with Scaleway, Sentium Consulting has engineered a powerful, scalable, and efficient platform tailored for a specialised land evaluation and opportunity identification service. The platform incorporates advanced technologies and leverages Scaleway's extensive product suite. The resulting infrastructure, built to manage large-scale data collection and integration, comprises efficient geospatial ETL pipelines, a centralised and scalable data lake, a geospatial data warehouse, and a microservice backend with an API gateway. It also incorporates a CMS for real-time management of dynamic content and mapping API integrations, all orchestrated on a highly extensible, maintainable, and reliable Kubernetes cluster. This comprehensive solution enables the land evaluation service to deliver precise and real-time insights and development opportunities to landowners.

Solutions provided by Scaleway

Sentium Consulting utilized a range of products and services offered by Scaleway to build a robust and efficient architecture for their projects. The key products and services used are:
Managed databases: maximising on Scaleway's capabilities, Sentium Consulting securely stored and managed data integral to a platform designed for a specialised land evaluation and opportunity identification service. It provided efficiency and scalability, ensuring optimal performance for the platform and associated projects.
Scaleway Object Storage for Essential Data Backup: Scaleway has offered a reliable and expandable solution for storing backups of essential data associated with internal analytics. It ensures the preservation and quick restoration of critical data in case of any issues or data loss.
Kubernetes Kapsule for creating, managing, and scaling containerized applications: by leveraging Kubernetes engine, Sentium Consulting deployed, managed, and scaled containerized applications seamlessly, improving overall performance and reliability across their projects.
Load Balancers to distribute network traffic efficiently across multiple resources: it allowed Sentium Consulting to effectively handle and distribute network traffic, ensuring excellent performance and availability for their applications and infrastructure.

A powerful, scalable, and efficient infrastructure was created by making strategic use of Scaleway's products and services. Sentium Consulting employed managed databases for their website and internal projects while deploying Kubernetes clusters to operate and scale containerized applications. Further, they implemented load balancing systems to handle network traffic effectively and used Scaleway Object Storage for long-term data storage and backup.

Sentium Consulting chose Scaleway over its competitors for several reasons:

• Competitive pricing: Scaleway's comprehensive and cost-effective range of products allowed Sentium Consulting to meet its specific requirements without breaking the bank.
• Environmentally friendly cloud infrastructure: Scaleway's commitment to environmental sustainability aligns with Sentium Consulting's goal to reduce its ecological impact.
• Reliable, secure, and scalable solutions: they were easy to integrate into Sentium Consulting's systems and enabled the team to build and maintain a robust and efficient infrastructure for their projects.

Results

The collaboration with Scaleway helped Sentium Consulting’s client to achieve remarkable results:

• Gained a competitive advantage over other digital land platforms through advanced mapping capabilities and data sets
• Increased business valuation, and showcased it as an attractive investment opportunity
• Tripled the number of users engaging with the platform

Future plans

Sentium Consulting intends to work closely with Scaleway and explore new opportunities. We are committed to staying at the forefront of industry developments and leveraging Scaleway's latest innovations to ensure our client’s ongoing success.