Driving Faster Decisions with a Scalable Self-Service Analytics Platform

About Client

The client is Europe’s largest online lottery provider, operating across the UK, Europe, and American markets. By 2016, the organization had generated over €300 million in revenue, managing high volumes of player, transaction, marketing, and affiliate data across regions.

Background

Having data stored in silos limits an organization from fully leveraging its data. While individual systems can track activities such as leads, payments, or user engagement, meaningful insights emerge only when these sources are connected.

A BI platform integrates data from all disparate systems and drives an improved and effective data strategy with faster, more reliable analytics. This unified approach provides a complete view of the customer journey, helping organizations identify gaps, optimize processes, and uncover new growth opportunities.

Business Intelligence enables senior management to gain a holistic view of the organization and the needs of each department. By establishing a single source of truth, BI improves operational efficiency and supports quicker, more confident decision-making.

A modern self-service analytics platform further extends this value by allowing business users to explore data, run queries, and build reports independently—reducing reliance on IT teams while improving insight accessibility across the organization.

Challenge

The client’s online lottery ecosystem relied on several disparate systems, including:

  • Marketing automation and email marketing platforms
  • Web analytics tools
  • Affiliate management software
  • Multi-channel payment systems

Without a centralized data warehouse, consolidating information across these platforms was complex and time-consuming. This led to delayed decision-making, inefficient resource allocation, and limited visibility into overall performance.

The client was seeking process improvement, improved reporting reliability, and measurable ROI through a scalable Business Intelligence solution—supported by experienced business intelligence consultants for casinos and gaming organizations.

Our Solution

A tailored BI strategy was developed based on the client’s current challenges and future growth objectives. The approach included:

  • Discovery workshops to align business goals with analytics requirements
  • Infrastructure and data architecture design to support scalability
  • A high-level implementation roadmap for phased rollout

A detailed evaluation of BI tools was conducted to identify platforms that offered agility, ease of use, and scalability for business users. The final recommendation combined enterprise-grade and open-source technologies to build a robust self-service analytics platform aligned with the client’s IT environment.

Implementation included:

  • Design and development of a centralized data warehouse
  • ETL architecture development and automation
  • Industry-specific reporting and analytics tailored to online lottery operations

Outcome

The solution delivered a centralized analytics environment with modern dashboards and reports that enabled faster, more informed decision-making.

  • Business users could explore data and generate insights with minimal IT involvement
  • A single source of truth improved reporting consistency across departments
  • Decision-makers gained timely visibility into performance, marketing effectiveness, and customer behavior
  • The platform supported scalable analytics aligned with the evolving Europe self-service analytics market

The Data Integration Resulted In A BI Layer With Four Core Areas:

Product
Customer
Campaign
Web Insights

with an integrated view of data from the core lottery, marketing,
Web Analytics and payment systems.

Ad Hoc Reporting

Capabilities Allowed Business Users To Create Custom Reports On Their Own, Thus, Reducing Dependency On IT Time And Cost Of Report Development.

The Complete BI Infrastructure Was Conceptualized, Developed & Deployed In Just

14 Weeks

With A Low Total Cost Of Ownership

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