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Lakehouse Solution

A2 Lakehouse Solution

We build it, deploy it on your infrastructure, and manage it. You get the insights.

Why a lakehouse

Analytics that scale independently of your production systems

Traditional ETL tools pull data directly from your databases, consuming 2–3 CPUs on the source system. And when competitors demo their solutions, they show 2–3 tables working nicely. But real enterprise environments have thousands of tables; Oracle E-Business Suite alone has thousands.

We take a different approach. Our team deploys a purpose-built lakehouse on your infrastructure, powered by our open-source CDC technology. Near real-time replication captures changes with minimal impact on your databases, with no heavy ETL consuming resources. Data flows continuously into optimized lakehouse storage, so your teams make decisions based on what is happening right now, not what happened yesterday.

We have battle-tested this with Oracle E-Business Suite environments with thousands of tables: not a 2–3 table demo, but real enterprise-scale deployments. Our CDC engine handles the edge cases that break other solutions, such as partial rollbacks, Oracle internal transactions, multi-byte character sets, and data types competitors simply skip. Reports that struggled against your RDBMS can run 10–100× faster against the lakehouse.

OPERATIONS · STAYS FAST AND UNTOUCHEDOperational database (OLTP)your ERP and line-of-business systemsorders · invoices · payments · postingsreal-time transaction processingbuilt-in controls · single source of truthGearacles CDCcontinuous · no agentsANALYTICS & AI · SEPARATE, GOVERNED COPYLakehousemanaged copy, updated within secondshistory · reconciliation · auditheavy queries · dashboards · reportsAI investigation on certified numbers
Fig. 1 · Operations separate, analytics separate: your everyday systems stay fast and untouched; the heavy analysis runs on a separate, governed copy of your data.
How it works

Five stages, one pipeline

Stage 1

Connect your databases

We configure near real-time CDC replication from Oracle, Oracle EBS, and other databases with minimal impact on your source systems.

Stage 2

Data lands in your lakehouse

Changes stream continuously into the right store: open table formats on object storage for large analytical tables, a columnar store for aggregates, a relational store for smaller reference tables.

Stage 3

Offload your analytics

Reports and queries run against the lakehouse instead of your production databases. Slow reports become 10–100× faster.

Stage 4

Define your metrics once

The semantic layer, including purpose-built definitions for Oracle EBS, ensures everyone uses the same business terms.

Stage 5

Explore with AI

Ask questions in natural language and get answers backed by your real data, updated in near real-time.

What we deliver

A complete lakehouse, built, deployed, and managed by our team

No.ComponentScope
01Near real-time CDCChanges are captured from your databases and streamed continuously into the lakehouse. No batch jobs, no stale data: decisions are based on what is happening right now.
02Hybrid lakehouse storageData lands in the right store for the job: open table formats on object storage for large analytical tables, a columnar (OLAP) store for fast aggregates, and a relational (OLTP) store for smaller reference tables. All open source, and every major analytics engine can read it.
03Federated SQLQuery all your data, lakehouse tables, databases, and external sources, through a single SQL interface. No data movement, no duplication. Reports that took minutes in your RDBMS run 10–100× faster against optimized lakehouse storage.
04Semantic layerDefine business metrics, dimensions, and relationships once. Analysts, engineers, and executives work from the same definitions. Includes a purpose-built semantic layer for Oracle E-Business Suite.
05AI data explorationExplore your data in natural language. Ask questions, discover patterns, and generate insights, powered by AI that understands your semantic layer and business context.
06On-premises or cloudDeploy the entire platform in your data center, your cloud account, or a hybrid of both. Same platform, same capabilities, your choice of environment.
Semantic layer

One shared definition of every number

The same meaning for people and for the AI. Metrics and dimensions are defined once, owned, and certified, so dashboards, the AI assistant, and board reports read the exact same figure.

DISCONNECTED SOURCESERPRevenue = $4.2MSpreadsheetsRevenue = $4.5MCRM exportRevenue = $3.9MSame word, three different numbers.THE SEMANTIC LAYERMETRICSwhat you measureRevenueMarginUnitsDIMENSIONShow you sliceBranchMonthProductdefined once · owned · certifiedEVERY CONSUMERBI dashboardsRevenue = $4.2M ✓AI assistantRevenue = $4.2M ✓Board reportsRevenue = $4.2M ✓One certified number, everywhere.Figures are illustrative.
Fig. 2 · Without a semantic layer the same word means three different numbers; with it, every consumer gets one certified number.
Agentic AI layer

From visibility to investigation

Trusted reporting shows what happened and what changed. The agentic AI layer begins where it leaves off: why it happened, where, what evidence supports the conclusion, and what to investigate next. Not another dashboard, but a governed investigation over the certified numbers your dashboards already use.

REPORTING & VISUAL ANALYTICSMonitor KPIs and exceptionsWhat happened?What changed?the foundation: trusted, visual, descriptiveAGENTIC AI LAYERConduct a governed investigationWhy did it happen?Where did it happen?What evidence supports it?What to investigate next?ranked · evidence-backed · auditableTHREE INGREDIENTS, COMBINED AND GOVERNED TOGETHERAIunderstands questions · organizes the investigationexplains findings clearly+Enterprise datafinancial & operational facts · governed data productsdocuments where relevant+Enterprise ruleswho may see what · how metrics are definedwhich methods to followTake one of the three away, and the answer should not be trusted.
Fig. 3 · The investigation combines AI, enterprise data, and enterprise rules. Take one of the three away and the answer should not be trusted.
01Identity & authorizationenterprise identity integrationrole- and company-based accessauthorization checked before retrieval02Data & model boundaryapproved deployment architectureapproved models and endpointsrestricted network access03Minimum necessary accessretrieve only what the question needsnever send whole datasets to the modelfilter before the model sees anything04Audit & human controllog questions, retrievals, methods, answersread-only initial deploymenthuman approval before any write actionThe AI model is not the security boundary. Your identity, permissions, network controls, and audit are.
Fig. 4 · Four controls keep your organization in charge: read-only to start, every answer traceable to its source rows, and human approval before any write action.
Near real-time vs nightly ETL

What changes when the data is current

Traditional ETLA2 Lakehouse Solution
Batch jobs run nightly; stale data by morningNear real-time CDC; data is always current
Heavy extraction consumes 2–3 CPUs on the sourceMinimal impact on source databases
Demo looks great with 2–3 tablesBattle-tested with thousands of EBS tables
Breaks down at enterprise scaleBuilt for enterprise scale from day one
Decisions based on yesterday's dataDecisions based on what's happening now
Built on open source

Every lakehouse we deliver is powered by open-source components we created and maintain: oracdc and ora2iceberg. You get the reliability of battle-tested open-source software, deployed and managed by the team that built it.

See it in action

Schedule a demo and we'll walk you through the platform with your use case in mind. Not a 3-table demo, but a real discussion about your environment.