Data engineering consultancy in Rotterdam

It builds and manages the pipelines and data platform that bring measurement data, ERP data and planning data together in one reliable place for reporting and models. A data engineer makes sure every source arrives on time, codes match up and errors are detected.

Greenport West-Holland, a network of businesses, public authorities and knowledge institutions in horticulture, runs programmes for robotics, digitalisation and fresh-produce logistics. Read more about the service on our data engineering page.

Agro Care is one of Europe’s leading tomato producers. According to its website, Agro Care Growers’ head office in Wateringen manages its growing sites centrally, including sites in the Westland, Middenmeer and Rilland in the Netherlands.

For Agro Care, we are building a data platform using a data warehouse and Databricks. The aim is to store all data centrally and make it easily accessible for BI and data science.

By using identifiers that mean the same thing in every source. The climate-control computer records a growing section, the harvest records a batch, and the ERP records a product and a customer. We document which code corresponds to which location, batch or customer in a mapping table, along with who maintains that table.

Only then can you compare a series of measurements with a delivery. Without that shared definition, the figures can appear correct until someone compares two sites.

Then you work with snapshots: each export is compared with the previous one, and only the changes move on. On Databricks, AUTO CDC FROM SNAPSHOT handles this; AUTO CDC processes a stream of changes if one is available.

Both can maintain a table as SCD type 1, which keeps only the latest version, or SCD type 2, which adds a new row for each version. Type 2 shows which customer or department a batch belonged to at the time.

Portbase is the Port Community System for Dutch ports and a subsidiary of the port authorities of Amsterdam and Rotterdam. The platform brings together, among other things, container notifications for inland transport and the status of incoming cargo.

You agree with Portbase which data you may access and how. We then treat it as another source alongside the ERP. Read more about data across the supply chain on our mobility and logistics page.

Often, yes, and since 12 September 2025 you have had a right to do so. According to the European Commission, the Data Act gives users of smart, connected products the right to access the data generated by their use and to share it with third parties.

Your legal adviser can assess what this means for your contract with the supplier. We set up data ingestion so it remains clear which data series comes from which installation.

Yes. In Rotterdam, we used cameras to capture the feeding process at Floating Farm, and we worked on the Botlekbrug for Rijkswaterstaat. These were AI projects; you can find the case studies on our data science firm in Rotterdam and AI consultant in Rotterdam pages.

Our office is on Westerdoksdijk in Amsterdam. After launch, we manage the platform through management and continuous improvement, or your own team takes over.

When your reporting comes from a single system and measurement data is only needed on the grower’s or operator’s screen. In that case, a report from the source system or the supplier’s portal is enough. A pipeline will not fix a sensor that measures incorrectly, either.

If you need someone to work temporarily within your own team, see hire a data engineer. If you want to compare providers, see our overview of data engineering firms.