Paragon

Contact	Nick Massa — Technology Director
Company	Paragon Netherlands & Belgium
Size	±10,000 employees in Europe, ±300 in the Netherlands
Customer since	Yres ±2 years · Plainwater ±10 years

About Paragon

Originally a print company, strongly transformed into a technology and communications company. Supports organizations with customer communication (print and digital), process optimization and automation. Data plays a central role in reporting, invoicing and customer insight.

The trigger

A migration from an on-premise data warehouse to the cloud (Azure). As part of this, the entire data connection structure had to be set up again. Previously, connections were set up differently per application; with Yres this is now standardized.

Decisive criteria

• Standard connections (off-the-shelf)
• Azure fit (runs in their own Azure environment)
• Efficiency and cost savings
• Less dependence on external hours
• Central management location for all integrations
• Low barrier and self-management possible

Concrete benefits

• Faster connection of applications
• Central management environment
• Fewer external hours needed
• Logging and error detection
• Reliable data for reporting and invoicing

Quotes

"It not only speeds up our IT process, but also makes data available faster for reporting and invoicing to customers." (Het versnelt niet alleen ons IT-proces, maar zorgt er ook voor dat data sneller beschikbaar is voor rapportages en facturatie richting klanten.)

"Yres helps us quickly unlock new sources. It gives us more options to extend integrations ourselves." (Yres helpt ons met het snel ontsluiten van nieuwe bronnen. Het geeft ons meer mogelijkheden om integraties zelf uit te breiden.)

Themes for the future

AI, cloud development (Azure/Microsoft stack), BI transformation (possibly Qlik → Power BI) and a future-proof data strategy.