CloverETL empowers UK telecom brand EEs digital insights team
Industry In order to combine their data sources into Tableau without a
Telecommunications huge time and labor intensive effort, it was necessary for the Using CloverETL small digital insights team within EE to choose a data inte- Connect digital data into a Tableau- based reporting insights dashboard gration platform that could handle their data rapidly and that
Data Profile offered stellar support.
Digital data Web Services Amazon Redshift To agilely handle their data profile, Browne decided on CloverETL
Location as the perfect solution for his teams particular needs.
United Kingdom
With CloverETL integrated with Tableau software, his team was
equipped to lead a digital transformation revolution within EE. The
platform gives him and his team the ability to easily automate their
data integration processes, creating fast turnaround insights to
We needed a proper utility belt to deal with these types of things. The Project With a large consumer base of 28 million users and scores of different data channels, Browne and his digital insights team at EE had the tough task of integrating all of their business intelligence into one place, and then visualizing them simply for a non-technical audience. As Dwayne Browne Digital Insights Team Manager Dwayne says,[Using our data], we have to tell stories that are non- technical, and that we can relay back to people. In particular, there are four major types of data sources they needed to combine: Adobe Analytics, VOC databases, clickstream records, and personalization tools. With CloverETL, Dwaynes team could automatically pull data from these sources into Amazon RedShift, and then push it all together into Tableau easily to see the story behind the data.
A Powerful Tool for a Small Team
The challenge for Dwayne: handle colossal amounts of digital data with only a small digital insights team. They couldnt afford to waste time outsourcing the project to IT services. That would easily take months to set up and weeks and weeks in change requests. Traditional implemen- tation no longer works for the turnaround times they had in their minds. To deal with their data in a cost-effective way, they needed a software About EE UK that was agile, and with a lightweight footprint. CloverETL fit the bill per- fectly. Using Clover, it took Dwaynes team one month, for what would EE UK is the largest telecommunication com- pany in the UK, offering mobile and internet normally take at least six. services to almost 28 million users. Formed in 2010 in Hatfield, UK, through a merger of T- Flexibility Mobile and Orange brands, EE was the first UK For Browne and his team, the main appeal of CloverETL was its flex- brand to offer 4G network access, and is dedi- ibility, ease-of-use, and low cost. Plus, it made it easier for their team cated to offering the best network and service within Britain. to jump in, and started integrating right away. As Dwayne said to us, Flexibility and the learning curve are some of the things I really liked about Clover. On top of that, Javlins expert-trained support staff also meshed well with Dwayne and his team. Something about the way Clover was presented made me feel that there are some really clever guys behind the product, said Browne. And you can talk to them. Thats important. That means you can do some really clever stuff.