Data Transformation and Modernization: Empowering a Video Game Publisher with GCP Cloud and Oracle DI Migration

Client Overview

A large American video game publisher, renowned for its numerous famous game franchises across various platforms, aimed to modernize and revitalize its data analytics and business intelligence capabilities to achieve a scalable, secure, and cost-effective solution.

Business Challenges

The legacy codebase was causing costly maintenance, limited traceability, and extremely poor platform performance.
Frequent memory bottlenecks and increased expenditure on overall platform infrastructure.
Lack of real-time data processing and visibility.
Need for a data science and AI/ML ready platform.
The analytics development cycle was very long due to a complex reporting environment and lacking self-serve capabilities.

Tredence Solution

Architected a modern data platform on GCP Cloud leveraging all GCP native services.
Developed an automated pipeline to integrate operational and retail data from diverse sources, such as on-premises, Oracle DB, third-party APIs, Google Drive, and .txt files.
Implemented robust data security and governance capabilities.
Migrated Oracle Reports to Looker and enabled self-serve analytics.

Why GCP?

Need for very high-performance services and network for faster response time across regions.
Competitive pricing offered across various hyperscalers.
Implementation of an integrated data security and governance ecosystem.
Provision of comprehensive and reliable self-serve analytics alongside enterprise reporting capabilities.
Advanced migration and capability support provided by Google Professional Services.

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