Technology Category
- Functional Applications - Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Cement
- Construction & Infrastructure
Applicable Functions
- Sales & Marketing
- Warehouse & Inventory Management
Use Cases
- Construction Management
- Picking, Sorting & Positioning
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
Nando’s is a globally recognized fast-food chain famous for its flame-grilled peri-peri style chicken. The company operates over 1,200 outlets in 30 countries, with more than 450 outlets across the United Kingdom and Ireland. Nando’s serves 12 million customers and aims to continually improve and serve them better by becoming data-driven in the UK & IRE. The company has built its success on providing customers with a great dining experience and aims to continue this mission by using data to better communicate with customers. The data team at Nando’s, responsible for ensuring the infrastructure can support data-driven marketing strategies, consists of three analysts, two data engineers, a product manager, and a platform manager.
The Challenge
Nando’s, a popular fast-food chain known for its flame-grilled peri-peri style chicken, was facing a significant challenge with its existing infrastructure. The company, which operates over 1,200 outlets in 30 countries, was struggling to meet the demands of its data-driven marketing strategies, particularly around customer loyalty and rewards programs. The existing infrastructure was slow and inflexible, making it difficult for the data team to effectively manage data pipelines and make informed business decisions. The team, led by Miquel Puig, Technical Lead on the Engineering team, was manually working on data pipelines and making business decisions based on data at the ingestion stage. One of the key use cases was turning end-of-day data from the outlets into insights that informed loyalty and reward programs.
The Solution
To overcome these challenges, Nando’s decided to overhaul its existing infrastructure. The company moved its data from SQL server to Google Cloud Platform, choosing BigQuery as the data warehouse at the center of a modern data stack. Fivetran was selected as the data source connector, alongside Google Cloud Resources, Looker for BI, and Hightouch as the Reverse ETL and data activation solution. The goal was to create an infrastructure that provided flexibility and visibility, giving the business a transparent view of data that it could trust. Fivetran was chosen over Stitch for data integration due to its flexibility, ease of use, and speed. Hightouch was selected for its clear UX and superior integrations with Nando’s marketing stack, allowing the company to send a 360 view of customers to the campaign tool and ad networks like Facebook and Google Ads for personalized campaigns.
Operational Impact
Quantitative Benefit
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