YunExpress speeds data analysis as much as 100X with Oracle Cloud
Chinese shipping and logistics provider improves data reporting and business decision-making with Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Analytics Cloud.
“It is simple to store, manage, and query terabytes of customer, product, and historical transaction data with Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, which helps us turn this mountain of data into insights to ensure continuous business growth.”
Business challenges
Founded in 2014 and based in Shenzhen, China, YunExpress is a privately held B2C ecommerce shipping and logistics provider, delivering 700,000 parcels daily for more than 10,000 customers in 220-plus countries. Among its biggest clients are Amazon.com, Shopify, Wish, JOOM, and VOVA.
YunExpress designs and manages the entire logistics chain in-house, from the first mile to sorting at15 transfer centers worldwide to customs clearance to the last-mile delivery.
To improve its decision-making related to pricing, cost controls, and customer services, YunExpress needed to perform more-rigorous analysis of customer, product, and other business data, However, its previous on-premises databases and analytics tools were unable to keep pace with the rapid growth in data in its transportation management system.
Oracle Cloud helps change the way we use data. It accelerates our query response while providing complete data analysis and reporting functions, which enables us to quickly perform multi-dimensional analysis to meet new management requirements and support real-time decision making.
Why YunExpress Chose Oracle
YunExpress turned to the cloud-based Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse and Oracle Analytics Cloud to quickly develop and deploy a more robust analytics system, at a lower cost.
“Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse surpassed our expectations for its performance,” says CEO Guodong Peng. “Its scalable architecture minimizes the startup costs to test and deploy a new analytics system, which is important for us to continue to create new analytics systems to meet new management requirements.”
Results
Having implemented Oracle’s cloud-based data and analytics platforms, YunExpress can now deploy purpose-build analytics systems 10 to 100 times faster than before. It also has cut down on the time it takes to query data and produce reports.
“The scalable architecture minimizes the startup costs to test and deploy a new analytics system, which is important for us to continue to create new analytics systems to meet new management requirements,” Peng says. “It is stable and requires no maintenance, which can save us a lot on personnel costs.”
With the powerful data exploration and analysis capabilities of Oracle Analytics Cloud, YunExpress now can visualize revenue contributions by customer, channel, product, and region quickly and comprehensively to make more-informed business decisions.