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Automotive decision intelligence

We developed Datium Insights’ automotive data products and commercial platform on Azure, reducing valuation response time from 22 seconds to 5.

CLIENTDatium Insights
INDUSTRYAutomotive
REGIONAustralia
PRACTICE LEADLakhwinder
22s to 5svaluation API response
99.99%platform availability
10+products from one API

Source: Softobiz client case-study material.

THE CLIENT

Datium needed automotive decision intelligence to grow beyond one valuation API.

Datium Insights began with a single valuation API and no customer-facing app. Softobiz built both the products and the commercialisation platform on Microsoft Azure: a self-service suite spanning valuation, forecasting and multi-asset pricing.

The engineering brief was demanding: protect proprietary pricing data from scraping, cut latency, generate image-heavy certificates quickly and stay highly available through data synchronisation.

THE CHALLENGE

What stood in the way.

CHALLENGE 01

Scrapers after the data

Proprietary pricing data was exposed to OCR-based scraping.

CHALLENGE 02

22-second valuations

API latency made real-time use cases impossible.

CHALLENGE 03

Availability through sync

Data synchronisation windows threatened uptime commitments.

CHALLENGE 04

Demanding workloads

The platform had to remain responsive as product use and data volume grew.

WHAT WE BUILT

The solution, piece by piece.

01

Azure microservices

AKS-orchestrated services behind a reusable Kong API gateway, with Kafka and Dell Boomi in the fabric.

02

Image-based anti-scraping

The real price is overlaid with an invisible decoy that defeats OCR scrapers.

03

Backup and failover

Automated failover keeps valuations live during data sync.

04

AI-accelerated delivery

An AI-assisted development lifecycle compressed build time across the suite.

THE OUTCOMES

What changed for the client.

5s

Valuation response

Down from 22 seconds, opening real-time use cases.

99.99%

Availability

Sync windows no longer cost uptime.

10+

Products from one API

A monetisable, self-service product suite.

Faster certificates

Image-heavy valuation certificates generate in a fraction of the time.

SERVICES BEHIND THIS STORY

The capabilities that carried this engagement.

DATA AS A PRODUCT

Your data is an asset the moment a platform can sell it.

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