Telecommunication company, which provides mobile telecommunications, internet connection, and cloud computing services for individuals and legal entities.
As part of the project, the technical specialists were faced with the task of solving performance issues of the existing historical data warehouse, which with the increased inflow of information, ceased to satisfy the Customer. At the beginning of the project, the information in the warehouse was collected from a single data source, while the collection of daily information itself and its processing usually took more than 16 hours.
In addition, the Customer’s company used manual collection and aggregation of data from three different sources to generate reports used for making managerial decisions. The work on the preparation of weekly reports was carried out by the efforts of 3 analysts during 3 workdays. As a part of the project, Invento Labs specialists had to design and implement a BI platform that would automatically receive operational data in a short span of time.
Another problem that the company representatives wanted to solve was the desire to reduce the cost of ownership and maintenance of the existing solution, which normally cost them $ 100,000 per year.
An audit of the existing solution showed that attempts to optimize it wouldn’t give the desired effect and wouldn’t solve the ownership cost problem.
That’s why the first thing Invento Labs specialists took a special interest in was the choice of the tools needed for the completion of the project.
Invento Labs architects proposed to use the MPP GreenPlum distributed database as a historical data warehouse. The proposed software removed a whole range of problems and provided some additional benefits:
After the deployment of MPP GreenPlum the team of Invento Labs began the adaptation of the existing data collection, transformation, and aggregation (ELT / ETL) processes.
To provide visualization of analytical reporting, the team chose the Tableau product, which at the start of the project was already enlisted under the “Leaders” category in the 4th Gartner quadrant. As it was later mentioned in the report to the Customer’s CEO, the proposed product made it possible to visualize more than 50 different indicators using only 4 dashboards. The installed instance of Tableau-server was connected to the Customer’s Microsoft Active Directory authorization service, which allowed managing access rights to various reports in a flexible manner.
The use of Tableau did not end with the report to the CEO. After the training, led by BI experts of Invento Labs, the Customer’s analysts continued the creation of the necessary reports for various company departments.
As a result of the implementation of the proposed solution for the source data warehouse and BI platform, the Customer was able to:
