Creating a data and analytics platform for Premier League
- Customer
- Industry
- Service
- Author
- Premier League
- Media & Entertainment
- Data & Analytics
- Jodie Rhodes
At a glance
The Premier League is the organising body of its football division, responsible for the competition, rule book, and centralised broadcast and commercial rights.
Challenge
The Premier League faced the challenge of efficiently managing and accessing vast, constantly evolving data on matches, player stats, and live broadcasts.
Solution
Firemind created a modernised, user-controlled reporting and analytical platform that enabled Premier League to make evidence-based decisions.
Services used
- Amazon EC2
- Amazon RDS
- Amazon Kinesis
- Amazon Lambda
Outcomes
- 500% more access to scalable databases
Fresh UX/UI
Business challenges
Managing an extensive and evolving data landscape
With such an extensive and ever adapting amount of data across matches, player stats and live broadcasts, Premier League were met with the many challenges of managing such data in a controllable manner.
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Solution
Creating a modernised, user-controlled data platform
What started as a simpler project to enhance an analytical and business intelligence platform quickly scaled into a modernised user controlled reporting and analytical platform. Providing visualisation of data for the Premier League, the member Clubs and official stakeholders.
This enabled the Premier League to make evidence based decisions and modernise access of Premier League assets using secure, cloud based technologies.
Secure environment
Harnessing Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud to provide secure and resisable computable space in the cloud.
Scalable databases
Recognising and using Amazon Relational Database Service to simplify the setup, operation and scaling of relational databases within applications.
User experience
Building strong UI to simplify the viewer experience in a streamlined platform.
We caught up with Steve Palmer, Head of Data Solutions at Premier League, to discuss the ongoing data project with Firemind.
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