S2 E5: Searce is optimizing clients’ costs with BigQuery Editions
12In the almost two decades since its founding, Searce has become a global leader in AI innovation and consulting. With a streamlined staff of 1300 employees to serve their 3000 customers, Searce is at the forefront of innovative optimization. Bruno Aziza sat down with Patrick Bangert, Searce’s Senior VP of Data, Analytics, and AI, to dig into how this tech pioneer is taking the move to BigQuery Editions in stride, and how compressed storage and autoscaling lead to cost savings for their clients.
Given that Searce has been named a Google preferred partner five times, Bangert is no stranger to Google Cloud Products—in fact, Searce makes use of just about everything GCP has to offer. Bangert says that GCP comes into play a lot in their primary use-cases: database migration and management, and the training and deployment of AI models, including all pipeline aspects. And as far as the move to BigQuery Editions, Bangert believes the updated features are competitive. This is made evident in the quantifiable value provided by compressed storage and autoscaling. “Examples can include cost savings,” Bangert says. “Optimization, performance, or delivering innovations with your customers, and query cost savings per performance.”
Like any technology, it really depends on how you use it, and as Searce gets to know Editions, they’ve developed some best and worst practices for optimizing these new features. According to Bangert, these practices really come down to being thoughtful with what clients need versus what clients want. “Thinking that users need what they want,” he says. “Thinking that the initial scope is the scope. Thinking that technological differences are the main difference.” Often the outcome a client wants—like migrating data to a different type of storage—isn’t as simple as they think. There’s a whole infrastructure that needs to be refit to the new processes. This ties right into Searce’s best practices: “Carefully discover what the users really need. Remain agile to accommodate the moving target. Remember that people are the important part of the triad: people-process-technology.”
Learn how else Bangert and Searce are using Editions to optimize their clients’ savings by listening to the full episode of Google Data Journeys with Bruno Aziza.