Challenges

India's cinema powerhouse, serving a hundred million patrons across 114 cities globally, sought Searce's help to revamp its data infrastructure. The challenge?

• Scalability: Their existing legacy warehouse was unable to scale with the high data volume or support real-time analytics.
• Siloed Data: They did not have a centralized repository to store data from over 200 cinemas.
• Real-time Analytics: They were unable to gain real-time insights into their customer transactions and occupancy rates of screens around the country.

Searce Solution

Searce stepped in to deliver a scalable, centralized solution, unlocking valuable insights for a data-driven future.

• Data Migration: Searce migrated the multiplex chain's historical data from their legacy warehouse to BigQuery, a Google Cloud-powered data platform, leveraging Dataflow to enable lightning-fast analysis and unlock a treasure trove of customer insights.
• Constructed a Real-time Data Highway: Searce engineered a robust data pipeline that seamlessly funnels real-time updates from CinemaDB directly into BigQuery, ensuring a constant flow of fresh insights for analysis.

Business Impact

• Improved Dashboard Refresh Time: Optimized dashboard refresh time from 20+ minutes to under 2 minutes.
• Built a Robust Data Platform: Addressed 75+ use cases from 11 business units across, infrastructure, security, networking, data, analytics, and AI/ML solutions.
• Demonstrated use cases: Showcased the power of data through 75+ impactful use cases, actively engaging over 50 stakeholders across 6 workshops and 4 demo sessions.

By working closely with this cinema powerhouse, our team of solvers successfully transformed their data landscape. With real-time data now powering their decisions, they are poised to redefine the cinematic experience once again.

Tech stack

• BigQuery
• Cloud Storage
• PubSub
• Data Flow