Cutting time to access data

Technology Category

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms

Applicable Industries

Telecommunications

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

The Challenge

Charter Communications, the owner of the Spectrum brand of telecommunications and media services, was facing a significant challenge. In a saturated mobile market, the company wanted to launch new products within a nine-month timeframe. However, its existing technology infrastructure was not capable of delivering the necessary data within this period. The company needed a solution that could rapidly onboard and standardize 200Tb of data from more than 60 sources, and prepare and publish this data to various analytical and production platforms.

About The Customer

Charter Communications is a leading telecommunications and media services company that owns the Spectrum brand. The company is based in Stamford, Connecticut, and operates in the communications industry. Charter Communications is a large-scale enterprise with a significant presence in the market. The company was looking to launch new products in a highly saturated mobile market and needed a solution that could deliver the necessary data within a tight timeframe of nine months.

The Solution

To address this challenge, Charter Communications planned to create a managed data lake. The company chose Qlik Catalog as the solution to this problem. Qlik Catalog is a data management platform that could handle the large volume of data from various sources that the company needed to process. The platform was able to rapidly onboard and standardize the 200Tb of data from more than 60 sources. Furthermore, it was able to prepare and publish this data to many analytical and production platforms, making the data easily accessible for the company's needs.

Operational Impact

The implementation of Qlik Catalog resulted in significant cost savings for Charter Communications. The solution cost 85% less than what had been budgeted for conventional tools.
The implementation process was also significantly faster than expected. The data lake was fully cataloged and accessible in just 60 days, compared to the six months that it would have taken with traditional methods.
The successful implementation of the data lake enabled the company to launch its new products on time.

Quantitative Benefit