Overview
A global media and publishing organisation partnered with GRADIS to rebuild and modernise its cloud analytics environment to support enterprise reporting and external client data services.
The organisation already operated within Google Cloud Platform (GCP) but required a cleaner, more scalable, and better-governed environment to support increasing data volumes, third-party integrations, and customer-facing analytics services. In addition to the core analytics platform, the business required improved operational visibility and monitoring to ensure platform reliability for both internal teams and external stakeholders.
Through a managed service engagement, GRADIS delivered a modern cloud analytics foundation in Google Cloud Platform, alongside a monitoring and governance framework to support secure, scalable, and reliable data operations.
Challenge
The organisation faced several operational and technical challenges:
- An existing cloud environment that lacked structure and alignment with best practices
- Limited governance around access control, security, and compliance
- Poor visibility into platform usage, performance, and costs
- Difficulty scaling analytics workloads as data ingestion increased
- No centralised monitoring solution to support external client-facing data services
- No external reporting and service for partner clients.
These challenges created operational risk, reduced efficiency, and made it difficult to confidently support growing analytics demands.
Solution
GRADIS designed and implemented a modern analytics environment on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), providing a clean, scalable foundation for enterprise data workloads.
- A restructured and well-governed GCP environment aligned with cloud best practices
- A centralised analytics platform built on BigQuery to support large-scale data processing and reporting
- Integration with a modern business intelligence layer for internal and client-facing analytics
- Strong identity and access controls to protect data and manage third-party access securely
- Cost management tools to improve transparency and control over cloud spend
In addition, GRADIS implemented a comprehensive monitoring and audit framework, enabling:
- Real-time visibility into platform health and data operations
- Audit logging for compliance and security oversight
- Usage and cost tracking to support operational and financial governance
- Proactive identification of issues impacting data pipelines and reporting services
This ensured the platform could reliably support both internal analytics teams and external clients consuming data services.
Results
The engagement delivered tangible operational improvements:
- A scalable, well-governed cloud analytics platform supporting enterprise and client workloads
- Improved reliability and performance across data operations
- Full visibility into platform health, usage, and costs through monitoring and governance tools
- Reduced operational risk with stronger security and audit controls
- A future-ready foundation capable of supporting new data sources and external analytics services
The organisation now operates a robust analytics environment that supports internal reporting needs while confidently delivering data services and insights to external clients.
