Vesteda

Vesteda lays sustainable data foundation

Vesteda is a residential investor and landlord, focusing on sustainable and affordable housing in the middle segment. Data-driven working enables the organization to continuously improve the quality of service. Therefore, Vesteda is investing in innovations such as data science and artificial intelligence to make greater use of available data for decision-making. But in order to effectively collect, manage and process data, modernization of data management was first required. Valid Digital Business was brought in to help with this.

Challenge: digitize business processes

The ball started rolling at Vesteda after the implementation of the Tobias ERP system. This is a Microsoft Dynamics-based management system that replaced the existing on-premise application. Tobias offers numerous standard reports, but Vesteda wanted more customized reports, and to be able to build these itself via self-service. The company also wanted to unlock and integrate more source systems. In addition, there was a strong need for orchestration and automation of data management - for modeling instead of coding.

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Vesteda headquarters
Solution: Smart Data Platform and tooling for data warehouse in the cloud

Vesteda engaged Valid Digital Business after a pitch for advice on data management modernization and implementation. Jelle Vegter, Teamlead BI and Data Science: "Our requirements were that the service provider had to have a clear vision in the field of data, and be able to implement a data architecture. Of course, proven knowledge of and experience with the latest technology and data modeling were also necessary."

Benefit of collaboration: cultural fit

Vesteda was already working with Valid in the area of Managed Services. "We knew it was pleasant working together and that the company culture clicks with ours. They are very knowledgeable and do what they promise."

"Valid has introduced modern principles of data management and data architecture at Vesteda."

Jelle Vegter Teamlead BI & Data Science at Vesteda
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The solution: integration of Tobias and automation

Valid put together a team of data specialists, architects, scrum masters and BI developers that helped build the data warehouse in the Azure cloud. Based on the Valid Modern Data Framework, Tobias was integrated into the data warehouse. This enabled access to other (internal and external) source systems. Valid also worked with agile development on the setup of the data warehouse, on the migration of historical data and on the most important reports.

When Vesteda decided to use the TimeXtender tooling for data management automation, Valid implemented this technology. In fact, Valid is a partner of TimeXtender. The tooling accelerated the development and further rollout of Vesteda's data warehouse and facilitated management. Says Vegter, "TimeXtender helped us optimize the factors of 'time,' 'money' and 'quality.'"

Results: streamlined and sustainable data management

Vesteda now has a future-proof data warehouse in the cloud, in which the data have been consolidated and to which new data sources can easily be connected. The organization wants to use data to make a difference. "We helped build a sustainable foundation in close cooperation," says Joris Janssen, project manager and scrum master at Valid.

Vesteda
  • 27,661 homes
  • Value of portfolio 9.4 billion euros
  • Gross rental income 363 million euros
  • Approximately 236 employees
  • Ten regional offices, headquarters in Amsterdam
Benefits at a glance
  • Vesteda itself is now able to develop and roll out custom reports
  • Knowledge of agile working has been transferred from Valid to Vesteda
  • Thanks to TimeXtender, data management is centralized and greatly simplified. Unlocking new sources is much faster.
  • Introducing self-service BI. Vesteda employees can develop and use their own reports
  • New data management makes it easy to realize new business initiatives quickly and efficiently. There is increasing demand from the business for information and reporting
  • The improved information position means that Vesteda has a keen insight into its business processes, and is therefore able to identify earning opportunities and realize efficiency improvements
  • Because reporting can be done quickly and efficiently, based on consolidated data, Vesteda is well positioned to provide adequate and timely information to various stakeholders, such as investors and regulators
  • Demonstrating regulatory and governance compliance is greatly facilitated
Added value Valid
  • Introduction modern principles of data management, modeling and data architecture
  • Implementation of TimeXtender for greater data warehouse management efficiency
  • Higher handling speed in the data warehouse through automation of tasks
  • Connecting new data sources is many times faster
  • Greater insight into, and control over, how data flows through the organization