LOT Polish Airlines: Ensuring Analytics Stability for Business-Critical Decisions
As more areas of the business become data-driven, maintaining a consistent and efficient analytics environment becomes increasingly challenging. To address this, LOT adopted unified architectural standards and aligned its analytics platform with Microsoft best practices. Working closely with APN Promise, the airline optimized its existing environment and streamlined development processes, creating a solid foundation for data-driven decision-making.
Challenge: Ensuring a Robust and Efficiently Managed Analytics Architecture
In the airline industry, access to reliable data and efficient analytics is essential, particularly during peak traffic periods when critical decisions related to sales, revenue management, and operations must be made. With the growing use of Power BI and Microsoft Fabric across the organization, LOT Polish Airlines identified the need for further development and optimization of its analytics environment.
The organization also aimed to streamline areas related to the architecture and solution management, such as the separation of environments, standardization of DAX logic, and improvement of the change management process.
Project Delivery
The project included a comprehensive assessment and optimization of the existing data architecture, as well as the implementation of development processes to support structured growth.
Power BI and Microsoft Fabric environment assessment, including documentation and recommendations for improving semantic model performance.
Semantic model optimization through enhancements to DAX logic and Row-Level Security (RLS), resulting in reduced resource consumption.
Master Report aligned with the company's branding guidelines, serving as a template for future report development.
Scalability framework introducing a standardized approach to the development and enhancement of Power BI reports.
Separation of development and production environments, eliminating the impact of development activities on production reports.
CI/CD integration with Azure DevOps through versioning, automated deployments, and semantic model validation before publication.
Workshops for the LOT team focused on knowledge transfer and the adoption of new working standards and best practices.
Benefits Delivered to LOT Polish Airlines: Measurable Reduction in Resource Consumption
32% reduction in computing power consumption while maintaining the same business logic and reporting capabilities
Stable performance of business-critical reports, even during peak usage periods
A controlled and secure change management process
Improved data quality and consistency, increasing confidence in decision-making
An analytics environment designed for scalable growth without the risk of disrupting production operations
Long-Term Value
LOT Polish Airlines now benefits from a strong analytics foundation that is performance-efficient, operationally secure, and ready to support future data-driven initiatives. Analytics has evolved from a potential source of risk into a reliable business capability, enabling confident decision-making even during the most demanding periods.
Astrafox Partner Support
The joint efforts of APN and Astrafox combined technological expertise with a business-oriented approach to data, delivering a solution that provides support for organizational growth. Backed by a strong team of experts and many years of experience, Astrafox helps clients fully harness the potential of Business Intelligence tools.
LOT Polish Airlines
LOT Polish Airlines is a modern Polish carrier operating since 1929. The airline connects Central and Eastern Europe with destinations around the world, offering long-haul flights to the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, and India, among others. As the world's 11th oldest airline still in operation, LOT is also one of Poland’s most international and recognizable brands.
