Case Study
When Felix began working through a major merger with its national partner, FareShare, bringing systems and data together became a priority. With a small internal technology team and plenty of competing demands, they needed additional support to help move the project forward.
That's where we came in.
Felix rescues surplus food from retailers, supermarkets and manufacturers and redistributes it to community organisations across the UK. At the same time, they help reduce food waste by ensuring perfectly good food doesn't end up in landfill.
For a long period, Felix had very limited internal IT resources, with much of the responsibility sitting with a single person. Rather than arriving with a fixed plan, the Advancing Analytics team worked alongside Felix, supporting existing priorities, helping to work through backlogs and sharing data engineering best practices along the way.
The goal wasn't simply to deliver a project. It was to help Felix build the foundations, skills and processes needed to support themselves long after the work was complete.
Felix and FareShare had different systems, different reporting approaches and different ways of working. The task was to bring those platforms together while creating consistency across the organisation.
Working closely with Felix, Advancing Analytics helped unify the two data platforms into a single environment, giving teams access to one trusted source of information and bringing data engineering and orchestration tools into line.
The result was a platform that allowed people across the organisation to access the information they needed without moving between multiple systems.
It also helped create more consistency in reporting and encouraged conversations around key business definitions, ensuring teams were working from the same understanding of performance and operations.
The biggest benefit wasn't just better technology. It was the time that came back to the team.
With less effort spent managing platforms and processes, Felix could focus on delivering improvements across the organisation and supporting stakeholders more effectively.
That extra capacity has already helped support new initiatives, including a warehouse management system and other projects designed to improve how food moves through the organisation.
"The tech work done by Advancing has given me a great foundation to pursue those projects."
Working together, Felix and Advancing Analytics were able to:
Bring multiple data platforms into a single environment
Improve reporting consistency and governance
Reduce pressure on internal technical resources
Free up time for new projects and innovation
Create a stronger foundation for future growth
For Felix, better data wasn't the end goal. It was the enabler.
Less time spent managing systems means more time focused on getting good food to the people who need it. And that's where the real value lies.
Sami Alexander, Data Engineer, Felix
