Frasers Group works with tech firm to develop new Google Cloud data platform

By

Nigel TAYLOR

Published
Jun 5, 2023

Frasers Group has appointed Google Cloud partner and business technology consultancy Sada to develop and implement a new strategic data platform across its retail portfolio.

The new system will be designed to help the group “scale data visibility and reporting across all [its] retailers… projected to help [it] see nearly two times the value of [its] investment in the cloud”. 

Simon Palmer, CIO of Frasers Group said it “selected Google Cloud because we were facing a data challenge – we knew we needed to play catch up in the data space, and that shifting to the cloud from an on-prem environment would be necessary.

“In order to fulfil our mission of becoming a global player, we needed a provider familiar with the ecosystem and capabilities to help us scale quickly and efficiently. We knew that Sada would fit the bill.”

Sada’s team of engineers has so far helped Frasers Group migrate its first dataset to Google Cloud’s BigQuery and will now provide it with a Cloud Advisory team “ensuring strategic consistency and flexibility toward their long-term goal of building and maintaining a self-service, value-driven data model”.

Frasers is one of the most expansion-focused UK retailers and is penguin a raft of stores as well as growing its online operations at present.