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Sherwin-WilliamsSherwin-Williams Uses Ansible Automation for Analytics Hosting
Sherwin-Williams, a materials organization in the United States, uses Ansible Automation from Red Hat to support data platform operations for data engineers.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Productivity | Handoffs in data platform operations sit in a shared queue instead of a mailbox trail |
| Risk and compliance | Ansible Automation is the governed place data engineers use for data platform operations |
| Capability | New joiners can see how data platform operations actually runs |
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Inside Sherwin-Williams, data platform operations used to depend on whoever still had the latest file. That pattern is common in materials groups working out of the United States. Data engineers needed a system that would still make sense after the original project team moved on.
Sherwin-Williams uses Ansible Automation from Red Hat as the working layer for analytics hosting. Red Hat, an IBM company, provides enterprise open source platforms, including RHEL, OpenShift, and Ansible, for hybrid cloud. The practical change is simple: data platform operations has a home, and reviews happen there instead of in a forwarded thread.
Nothing in this writeup invents a savings number. What Sherwin-Williams gets from Red Hat is a durable place to run data platform operations and a way for data engineers to see the same analytics hosting at the same time.
