Transforming your data platform: client stories from Coopérative U and V and B at the Salon de la Data & de l'IA Nantes 2025

See how Coopérative U and V and B transformed their data platform with Informatica Cloud IDMC, at the Salon de la Data Nantes 2025.

On 16 September 2025, KPC hosted a session at the Salon de la Data & de l'IA in Nantes around one central theme: “Transforming your data platform: the levers of performance and innovation”. Through two concrete client stories – Coopérative U and V and B – the panel brought out the different possible paths for changing your relationship with data and supporting your digital transformation.

Coopérative U: rationalizing and modernizing the data platform

For Nicolas Dupont, Data Architect at Coopérative U, the challenge was clear:
“Our legacy data infrastructure had to change. Migrating to GCP was a strategic decision, backed at the highest level, to rationalize our data warehouse and our data lake.”

The path was marked by an unexpected technical issue: it became impossible to carry on with PowerCenter. Moving to Informatica Cloud IDMC therefore became necessary, turning a constraint into an opportunity to modernize. Today, Coopérative U has an environment that is more agile, better governed and able to fit the new analytical uses.

V and B: building a data-driven IT department from the start

V and B, for its part, took a radically different path. As Omar Aouni, Head of Data, explains:

“The health crisis accelerated our e-commerce project. We had to build a digital foundation quickly for our franchisees and our customers.”

With a fledgling IT department, the retailer chose Informatica Cloud to centralize its data flows and make them reliable.

That choice made it possible to industrialize information exchange, bring in a PIM (Product Information Management) and build a central data platform, the real foundation of the company's digital strategy.

The KPC view: key success factors

Anthony Mindren, Data Platform Practice Lead at KPC, closed the session by setting out what makes a project like this succeed: 

“Whether you are building or rationalizing, the paths differ but the principles stay the same: governance, strategic alignment and the ability to deliver value quickly.”

• Tie the technology to a concrete business need, to prove the value quickly.

• Involve leadership and the business, to bring the organization along.

• Break the projects into measurable stages, to secure the transformation.

Modern data platforms: a strategic lever.

These client stories illustrate a conviction KPC shares:

• modern data platforms, combined with solid governance, are a lever for performance and innovation.

• Whether you are optimizing a legacy estate or building an IT estate from scratch, they open the way to using data in a way that is sustainable, secure and strategic.

To find out more, the replay is available here: