ASSAF.E: Data strategy of the future for the livestock sector
Companies have millions of pieces of data that they do not know how to make the most of. In sectors such as livestock farming, where many technological improvements have not yet been introduced, it is essential to do so as soon as possible.
The Genetic Selection Programme for the Spanish Assaf sheep breed is based on the purebred selection of animals on the basis of the results obtained in the genetic evaluations of breeding animals, and its main objective is to increase the economic profitability of the farms that use this breed.
What is the strategy to be followed and how to facilitate the evolution of the application?
We have created the ‘Stud Book’, a platform capable of ingesting and transforming data from different processes in a programmed and automatic way, where this information will be exploited and displayed through reports and graphs.
ASSAF.E is the National Association of Assaf Sheep Breeders. Its objectives are: to watch over the purity of the breed, to manage the Selection and Genetic Improvement programme and to promote the dissemination and expansion of the breed throughout the national and international territory.
The previous studbook application did not allow users to navigate between the different sections after uploading a file to the platform, as they had to wait for it to be processed.
Therefore, a new application had to be created in which customers could instantly upload import files, navigate between the different sections and perform searches.
The process :
To avoid the need to hire development developers every time we want to modify the representation of the data or incorporate new sections, we have opted for a data strategy using Azure Storage and Azure Data Factory. In this way, we have been able to create pipelines for automating the processing and transformation of data from different files in different formats.
The visualisation of the information is available through a web page with user authentication, where embedded Power BI reports and graphs will be displayed to facilitate the understanding of the data and the exploitation of results.
“Thanks to the development by Plain Concepts we have been able to automatically and instantly process all the information and data from the ‘Stud Book’. With the new platform, processes have been optimised, saving time and costs, which has resulted in an improved user experience.
Fernando Freire, Manager ASSAF.E
Concrete Results
- Access for users to use the portal and perform searches within the different sections.
- Data import and export.
- Notifications when the data upload and synchronisation processes have been completed.
- Data consumption through Power BI analytical reports.
- Visual reports that facilitate the understanding of the data and its subsequent exploitation.
- Maximum security.
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