APN Immersion Days in Action with Renova Cloud and Nutifood

AWS Partner Renova Cloud helped Vietnamese dairy company Nutifood unlock new business opportunities on AWS. Nutifood was looking to gain hands-on experience and guidance on better utilizing the data its company collects. The company chose Renova Cloud, which set up a free full-day on-site Immersion Day experience to give the Nutifood IT team hand-on training, a chance to chat with AWS experts, and the opportunity to discover new services and possibilities offered by AWS.

Nutifood, a leading dairy company in Vietnam, was looking to gain hands-on experience and guidance on better utilizing the data its company collects. AWS Partner Renova Cloud was chosen to support Nutifood on Data Lake on AWS. Renova Cloud set up a free full-day on-site Immersion Day experience that introduces users to AWS tools and resources. It was prepared to expand Nutifood's knowledge of AWS, roll up their sleeves, and explore these technologies through a variety of talk topics and hands-on lab sessions. The intended outcome of the session was to be able to realize the business benefits with AWS solutions, and more specifically how Nutifood can best leverage Data Lake on AWS platform.

The goal of this educational workshop was to empower Nutifood's IT team and leadership to confidently use the AWS platform and unlock new business opportunities. The session’s agenda was designed to generate knowledge, comfort, and excitement in preparation for the next stages of Nutifood's cloud journey with AWS. 

Solution Engineers from Renova were present to help Nutifood better understand how to adopt methodologies and technologies to address key business challenges. Two of Renova Cloud's Solutions Architects covered a range of topics, interspersed with real-life demos and labs where the audience could get hands-on experience with services in a sandbox account provisioned by AWS. The overall cycle of Data Lake was covered, including the overview, data ingestion, cataloging and organizing the data, consuming and reporting and data, visualization, and various automation options. 

These sessions were interactive in nature, giving Nutifood's team of 18 members an opportunity to ask questions and engage with Renova's Solutions Architects throughout the day. 

• Discover new possibilities: Immersion Days is a good opportunity to discover services and possibilities offered by AWS by providing a guided deep dive into a topic of choice.
• Hands-on labs: Immersion Days included hands-on labs based on common, real-life scenarios, allowing Nutifood’s team to experiment and experience AWS tools and workflows. Knowledge based on hands-on experience usually outlasts that of conventional presentations.
• Chat with experts: A team of experts were available during and after the Immersion Day do to answers all open questions and to give individual advice. There was also a recap with Nutifood a few weeks after the event to get feedback and discuss their topics of interest further.
  

At end of the immersion day, Nutifood's IT and business team had the opportunity to gain a high-level overview of AWS and how it can benefit business. A big part of this value came from gaining hands-on experience with the AWS services used during their Immersion Day. These included AWS Glue, Athena, DMS, and QuickSight. Renova Cloud also helped Nutifood’s IT team explore opportunities to create customer experiences that would benefit Nutifood and its customers, but couldn’t be built with traditional approaches.

A few other benefits include:

• Meeting with experts to ask about specific challenges that the business is facing
• Learning why data and analytics is becoming more and more important, and how data paired with the right technology, they can help the company deliver a more personalized customer experience
• Gaining insights as to how Nutifood might start leveraging other AWS services to enrich and differentiate the customer experience

The AWS Immersion Day was a great opportunity for Nutifood’s IT and business teams to get an in-depth experience of AWS solutions and receive expert guidance from experienced Solutions Architects. Delving into the world of data lakes and analytics was a chance for Nutifood’s developers to ask questions and learn the best path forward for their big data and reporting strategy. This is of utmost importance as Nutifood’s is currently focused on giving customers the insights they need to provide return on investment (ROI) on learning interventions. 

Renova Cloud collected feedback from Nutifood using a standardized CSAT survey developed by AWS for this purpose. The overall feedback was overwhelmingly positive, resulting in CSAT score 4.73 and good session scores, especially for the hands-on labs. “It was an engaging and valuable opportunity for us to be able to consult with Renova Cloud’s team,” says Trang Vuong, IT Director at Nutifood, who was present at the session. “Renova Cloud’s team did an excellent job of sharing his insight and experience in managing Big Data with the AWS toolset, which included AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, and Amazon QuickSight. We are also grateful to Renova's instructors for their continued support.”