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- The mission of Walgreens
is to be America's most
loved pharmacy-led health and well-being
and beauty retailer.
Data is critical for everything
that we do at Walgreens
and with that data the
customers are telling us
what they buy and what they need.
We have to forecast 200
million item store combinations
an get that right for our seven
million customers everyday.
We work with over 5,000
suppliers that we need
to coordinate the end to
end supply chain with.
That's a daunting challenge
that we can only meet
by using data effectively.
- Azure was a third of the cost compared
to setting up a new data
warehouse appliance on-prem.
We process billions of records.
We are able to churn through
this data three times faster
than our existing data
warehouse appliance solution.
- The difference with the
Microsoft Azure platform
was something that is scalable,
something that can grow
with us, which was
differentiated from a number
of the on-prem solutions
that we could have gone with.
The Azure platform gave us
the speed and the horsepower
that we needed to pivot that
data into actionable ways
so we could change the
assortments, so we could
respond to consumer's
changing buying behaviors
so that we could take action a lot faster.
Small tuning, small process
improvement multiply
anything by 9,000 stores,
it becomes very large
in the impact that we can
make on both people's lives,
but also financial
performance of the company
and I love that ability
to impact very big change.