{"slug":"rdsolutions-empowers-retail-pricing-intelligence-with-databricks","url":"https://findausecase.com/use-cases/rdsolutions-empowers-retail-pricing-intelligence-with-databricks","title":"RDSolutions empowers retail pricing intelligence with Databricks","description":"RDSolutions migrated its legacy Azure data warehouse pipeline to the Databricks Data + AI Platform, using Delta Lake, Unity Catalog and Databricks Assistant to process billions of retail pricing data points, cutting a data validation job from 4 days to 3 hours, a 97% improvement.","company":"RDSolutions","industry":"Retail","aiCapabilities":["Generative AI","Intelligent Automation"],"technology":["Delta Lake","Unity Catalog","Agent Bricks","Databricks Assistant"],"deployment":"Public Cloud","problemStatement":"RDSolutions relied on an Azure data warehouse that failed to scale cost-efficiently or effectively; big queries forced data teams to stop other work, and a complex aggregation job failed to complete, signaling the legacy pipeline could not meet leadership's ambitions for scale.","solutionApproach":"RDSolutions migrated to the Databricks Data + AI Platform, making Delta Lake the backbone of its data strategy for structured and unstructured data, using Unity Catalog for a single data governance and access-control model, Databricks SQL for self-service analyst queries, and Databricks Assistant to automate development tasks like error troubleshooting and table documentation.","businessValue":"A data validation job that took four full days in the legacy warehouse was reduced to seven hours immediately after switching to Databricks, and to just three hours after optimizing the pipeline—a 97% process and performance improvement directly impacting the speed at which RDSolutions delivers accurate and reliable customer data.","evidence":{"band":"high"},"sourceUrl":"https://www.databricks.com/customers/rdsolutions","dates":{"publishedAt":"2026-09-11T09:03:48.697Z","publishedAtSource":"pipeline","updatedAt":"2026-09-11T09:03:48.697Z"},"license":"Open for reading and citing with a link to https://findausecase.com/use-cases/rdsolutions-empowers-retail-pricing-intelligence-with-databricks. Bulk republication requires permission."}