Industry
Media
Offering
Cloud Advisory Services
Workload
DC, Servers & Data
Cloud
AWS
Project scope
— Data lake architecture design
— Data transformation and storage in data lake
— Customized reports in PowerBI
1CloudHub helped India’s leading television entertainment network bring its scattered big data into a single source of truth, to make advanced analytics affordable.
— Data lake architecture design
— Data transformation and storage in data lake
— Customized reports in PowerBI
The client is a leading media production and broadcasting company, subsidiary of a global media conglomerate. They have over 30 television channels, a digital business and a movie production business, reaching over 700 million viewers in India.
As part of their digital strategy, our client wanted to optimise user experience across channels — iOS and Android apps, Fire TV, web, and so on — based on user behaviour and preferences. This required a deeper understanding of customer behavioural patterns across platforms.
Presently, they were using Segment as the tool to collect around 6.5 billion records (20TB of raw data) of behavioural data from their 30 million online viewers every month from across sources.
In order to deliver a user-focussed digital viewing experience, the client needed
We, at 1CloudHub, enabled an enterprise data lake for all of the client’s data to reside in one place — preserving accuracy and timeliness of the data.
Leveraging our client’s existing mechanism to collect and feed data into the data lake, we created a pipeline with EMR (Elastic MapReduce) for data crunching or ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) and Power BI for self-service visualisation.
We enabled advanced analytics for data from up to a year — compared to the 3 months data as per agreement — to deliver the meaningful insights the business teams sought.
We crunched over 12 million records in under an hour, running more than 100 VMs concurrently in a cluster.
We delivered each report at a cost of $70. At this cost, we delivered an excellent price-to-performance ratio, driven by the spot fleet instances we used and our on-demand or pay-as-you-use cloud model.
A similar setup on-premise in a data centre would have cost the client 12,000 times more.
We are delighted to have helped the client create a centralized, analytics-ready repository for their Big Data and look forward to helping them meet their strategic goals using our cloud capabilities.