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  • Data-Driven Transformation:

    How Burns & McDonnell leveraged LTIMindtree’s data expertise to manage, store, and secure data with Microsoft Azure

    Data-Driven Transformation

Client

Burns & McDonnell is an engineering, architecture, construction, and consulting solutions firm with a rich history spanning more than a century. It remains committed to creating critical infrastructure for clients across the U.S. and beyond.

Market Trends In The Engineering And Construction Industry

Digital transformation is reshaping engineering and construction. Cloud, AI, and data-driven tools are streamlining workflows, enabling smarter decisions, and delivering faster, cost-effective results. Centralized, cloud-based platforms like Microsoft Azure are now essential for scalable, secure, and compliant data ecosystems.tools are streamlining workflows, enabling smarter decisions, and delivering faster, cost-effective results. Centralized, cloud-based platforms like Microsoft Azure are now essential for scalable, secure, and compliant data ecosystems.

The Engineering and Construction (ECNO) industry faces significant challenges such as supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, rising material and labor costs, and sustainability pressures. The biggest key challenge that the ECNO is facing today is the lack of data standardization with entails for –

  • Inflexible and non-scalable architecture
  • Lack of data standardization and centralized data repository
  • Low data quality
  • Lack of automation and monitoring
  • Poor project quality and safety

These issues lead to increased project costs, delays, and difficulties in meeting deadlines.

Market Trends In The Engineering And Construction Industry

The Need For Change

For Burns & McDonnell, the accumulation of data from each construction project was housed in multiple locations, leading to delays in getting timely feedback to governance teams, leadership, and project teams.

Burns & McDonnell encountered key challenges:

  • Dispersed data sources: Data was scattered across multiple locations, causing inefficiencies in access and analysis
  • Scalability issues: Their existing architecture was inflexible and could not handle the increasing data volumes or complexity
  • Data duplication and quality: Lack of standardization led to duplicated data and limited visibility into data lineage
  • Delayed feedback: Governance teams and analysts faced delays in providing actionable insights to leadership and project teams

LTIMindtree Solution

LTIMindtree aimed to strengthen Burns & McDonnell’s data standardization and create a central data repository to enrich data, leverage AI, and improve data quality. LTIMindtree’s agile data engineering practice quickly established new data pipelines, leveraging Microsoft’s next-generation platform capabilities around data mesh to modernize Burns & McDonnell’s data infrastructure. Partnering with LTIMindtree and Microsoft Azure, Burns & McDonnell built a scalable, secure, and future-ready data platform. Key components included:, Burns & McDonnell built a scalable, secure, and future-ready data platform. Key components included:

  • Data mesh architecture for domain-centric standardization

    Data mesh architecture for domain-centric standardization

  • Azure Databricks, AKS, and AI/ML integration

    Azure Databricks, AKS, and AI/ML integration

  • Real-time data lineage and feedback mechanisms

    Real-time data lineage and feedback mechanisms

 

- Rajesh Sundaram, Chief Business Officer, Manufacturing Business Unit, LTIMindtree

“Burns & McDonnell is a very strategic customer for LTIMindtree. We decided that, based on our past experience working with Microsoft and their next-generation platform capabilities around data mesh, which would be the right backdrop for this modernization program and Burns & McDonnell. That’s the reason why we proposed Microsoft-centric architecture, and we’ve implemented the solution to truly benefit Burns & McDonnell.”

Business Benefits

 
50% increase in deployment speed

50% increase in deployment speed

Significant gains in processing time—from hours to minutes

Significant gains in processing time—from hours to minutes

Higher user satisfaction through consistent data access

Higher user satisfaction through consistent data access

Reduced duplication & improved data quality

Reduced duplication & improved data quality

Accelerated time-to-value with Azure Innovate support

Accelerated time-to-value with Azure Innovate support

 

- John Heryer, Data Engineering and Integration Manager, Burns & McDonnell

“LTIMindtree and Azure Innovate helped us quickly accelerate our modernization efforts and create the initial framework for data organization and cataloging. We were able to create a domain-based metadata management and data serving capabilities governed by corporate data stewards.”

“Our partnership with one of the largest commercial property and casualty insurers in the U.S. reflects our shared vision for a data-driven, customer-first future. By modernizing their claims data platform, we’ve laid the groundwork for faster, smarter, and more seamless claim experiences for their policyholders. Together, we’ve built a foundation that drives operational excellence and elevates every customer interaction.”

— Prashanth Pulgal, Associate Vice President, Data & Analytics, LTIMindtree

LTIMindtree’s deep data transformation expertise and Microsoft Azure’s powerful capabilities enabled Burns & McDonnell to evolve into a data-first organization. With real-time insights, scalable architecture, and AI-driven decision-making, they’re redefining how infrastructure projects are delivered.

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