{"slug":"kongsberg-digital-achieves-60-cost-reduction-and-real-time-data-refresh-with-databricks","url":"https://findausecase.com/use-cases/kongsberg-digital-achieves-60-cost-reduction-and-real-time-data-refresh-with-databricks","title":"Kongsberg Digital achieves 60% cost reduction and real-time data refresh with Databricks","description":"Norwegian industrial SaaS provider Kongsberg Digital modernized its data warehouse on Databricks, increasing data refresh frequency from four times daily to hourly (a 300% increase) and cutting data processing costs by 60%.","company":"Kongsberg Digital","industry":"Technology & Software","country":"Norway","aiCapabilities":["AI Model Development & MLOps"],"technology":["Delta Lake","Spark Declarative Pipelines","Lakeflow Jobs","Agent Bricks","Unity Catalog"],"deployment":"Public Cloud","problemStatement":"Kongsberg Digital's legacy on-premises data warehouse, and an initial cloud migration to Azure Data Factory and Azure SQL, was costly and limited in scalability, and the company needed to increase the frequency of data refreshes to give teams near real-time insights while keeping costs manageable.","solutionApproach":"Kongsberg Digital implemented Databricks as the core of its new business data platform, using optimized workflows and reduced compute demands compared with its previous solution, and standardized templates and CI/CD pipelines to onboard new team members.","businessValue":"Kongsberg Digital improved its data refresh rate from four times per day to every hour, a 300% increase in frequency, and realized a 60% reduction in data processing costs.","evidence":{"band":"high"},"sourceUrl":"https://www.databricks.com/customers/kongsberg-digital","dates":{"publishedAt":"2026-09-11T09:03:56.879Z","publishedAtSource":"pipeline","updatedAt":"2026-09-11T09:03:56.879Z"},"license":"Open for reading and citing with a link to https://findausecase.com/use-cases/kongsberg-digital-achieves-60-cost-reduction-and-real-time-data-refresh-with-databricks. Bulk republication requires permission."}