Case Study
How UST helped a global media company transform analytics operations and reduce costs by 30%
OUR CLIENT
This global media, technology, and entertainment company offers a broad array of services, from broadband and mobile connectivity to streaming and gaming content. Founded more than 50 years ago, it generates more than $100 billion in annual revenue and employs approximately 200,000 people.
THE CHALLENGE
Data storage and analytics issues—high costs, reporting bottlenecks, and limited scalability
The company struggled to manage growing volumes of customer usage and billing information. Its Oracle database was expensive to maintain and couldn’t easily scale to handle the company’s massive data growth. Although the data was critical for reporting and analytics, it held no direct application function, making the cost-to-value ratio unsustainable. Meanwhile, users couldn’t easily generate reports for data-driven decision-making. The company needed a scalable, cost-efficient data storage and analytics solution to streamline reporting processes.
THE TRANSFORMATION
Data transformation journey—from Oracle to MinIO
UST migrated the company’s customer reporting and analytics from its legacy Oracle database to MinIO, a scalable, open-source data storage system, streamlining storage, reporting, and analytics operations. Using a phased approach to minimize business disruptions, the solution was seamlessly integrated with the company’s existing systems and optimized workflows for data transformations using Spark and Scala. It delivered these benefits:
- Rapid data transformation and analysis—The solution can process and analyze data directly in MinIO using Spark, Scala, and Python big data processing and reporting technologies.
- Accelerated reporting—The solution reduced operational bottlenecks and provided efficient reporting tools.
- Reduced costs—The open-source nature of the solution drastically cut costs while providing high-quality, reliable performance.
- Scalability—A future-proof architecture was designed to process growing volumes of data with high performance.
THE IMPACT
A trifecta of benefits—cost savings, improved efficiency, streamlined data management
Now, the company has an efficient, reliable data storage and analytics solution that can scale to keep pace with growth. The solution delivered these impressive results:
- 40% increase in operational efficiency—to maintain the data storage and analytics system, enabling the IT team to focus on value-added tasks
- 30% annual savings in data storage costs—by migrating from Oracle to MinIO, enhancing profitability
- 20% boost in data management efficiency—to generate reports and gain insights, enabling faster, more data-driven decisions
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RESOURCES
https://www.ust.com/en/insights/data-migration-with-metadata-driven-data-interface-mddi
https://www.ust.com/en/insights/designing-future-retail-modernizing-item-master