Customer Story

Monsoon
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OTTO, one of Germany’s largest e-commerce companies, developed Exasol Semantic Layer, a semantic business layer built on Exasol’s Virtual Schema technology. By transforming their data landscape, OTTO significantly improved operational efficiency and customer satisfaction.
Germany
38000+
Retail & e-commerce
Exasol Semantic Layer
OTTO faced operational inefficiencies due to fragmented business logic across multiple BI tools and a heavy dependence on IT specialists for data access and reporting. This setup made it difficult to maintain consistent data definitions and business logic across platforms.
OTTO developed the Exasol Semantic Layer to centralize and streamline data access. They built a Python-based query engine and a dynamic virtual table layer using Exasol’s Virtual Schema technology, which provided a consistent, single source of truth for data across the organization.
Business users can interact with data directly without needing technical expertise.
Consistent data definitions and reporting across all platforms.
Integration with multiple BI tools without redundant model configuration.