Telecom Data Analytics: A Game Changer for Multi-Channel Sales

30%

Network expansion

25%

Improved marketing effectiveness

35%

Reduced payout discrepancies
Developing Personalized Telecom Data Analytics Platform

Custom-built Telecom Data Analytics Solution

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Customer Overview

Our client, a prominent prepaid mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) based in the United States, operates an extensive network of dealers and affiliated retail stores nationwide. These stores sell SIM cards and plans as well as provide services, like SIM activation and number porting. To complete transactions, the stores utilize multiple sales channels. While some stick to the client’s proprietary dealer portal, many others use various third-party platforms.

Project Overview

With transactions coming through various channels, the client struggled to gain a clear view of their business performance. Identifying which strategies, stores, and regions were driving success and which needed improvement was a challenge. To address this lack of visibility, the client partnered with TenUp to develop a solution. Their goal was to use data-driven insights for decision-making and ensure all stores remained active and sales increased.

Challenges

Developing a centralized, data analytics solution to help our client in the telecom industry track sales performance across brands, regions, and channels—while uncovering trends, measuring marketing impact, and improving onboarding efficiency.

  • The solution must provide a centralized view or summary of the entire business performance and a bifurcated view of sales across different brands, channels, regions, stores, and recharge plans.
  • It should compare week-on-week, month-on-month, and year-on-year performance on key metrics for every store, channel, region, and brand.
  • It must showcase sales trends, like which brands or plans sell more in specific regions, stores, and channels
  • The solution must provide visibility into how different marketing campaigns, such as those targeting specific recharge plans, regions, or channels, impact sales.
  • It should give insights into the new stores or channels added to our client’s network and identify the speed, efficiency, and roadblocks in onboarding.
  • As our client paid store commissions through various channels, they needed visibility into the actual commissions paid to each store to avoid discrepancies and accurately calculate store-specific rewards tied to those commissions.

Solution

We developed a Telecom Data Analytics Solution with data visualization and CRM capabilities, providing a holistic view of business performance and streamlining process management across multiple sales channels.

  • Setting up SFTP channels, we integrated all sales data from third-party platforms and the proprietary dealer portal. Used ETL pipelines to ingest and structure data, such as commissions, sales, and onboarding forms, into an analytics-ready format.
  • Our team used Java for the backend and Angular for the frontend to build a robust and responsive system. We integrated the Sisense data analytics & Business Intelligence (BI) platform into the frontend via APIs to automate data modeling, analytics, visualization, and reporting.
  • We created interactive dashboards, offering a comprehensive view of data through graphs, pie charts, and line charts. Used key metrics to track and visualize sales trends, marketing impact, and onboarding efficiency.
  • The solution sends periodic, automated reports to top management, summarizing key metrics and highlighting trends, allowing for informed decision-making.
  • We created role-based dashboards and custom reports for departments like productivity, risk management, marketing, and onboarding, giving each team tailored insights to drive their department-specific goals.
  • Our team stored historical and real-time data in a Data Warehouse to enable comparative reports to track business performance over time. It allows the top management and various departments to gain valuable insights into both the past performance and the current ongoing efforts.
  • We built the capability to accurately calculate store-specific rewards by integrating commission data, ensuring seamless alignment with sales performance, and reducing discrepancies in reward payouts.

Benefits

Our custom-built, Telecom Data Analytics solution helped our client achieve the following business benefits:

  • 40% increase in decision-making speed with a 360-degree view of performance across channels, regions, brands, and stores.
  • Identified store onboarding delays, improved processes, and expanded the network by 30%.
  • 25% increase in targeted marketing effectiveness with custom dashboards and reports.
  • 35% reduction in rewards payout discrepancies by ensuring accurate commission tracking and reward calculations.

Technology

  • Java
  • Spring Boot
  • Angular
  • Sisense
  • Oracle GoldenGate

Industry

  • Telecom Wireless
Telecom Data Analytics for Multi-Channel Sales Growth

Conclusion

Our custom-built Telecom Data Analytics solution turned fragmented data into actionable insights and helped our client gain complete visibility into multi-channel sales performance. Integrated analytics, automated reporting, and role-specific dashboards helped improve decision-making, expand their network, and reduce payout discrepancies, driving operational efficiency and business growth.

Frequently asked questions

What are the key benefits of implementing data analytics in telecom operations?

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Data analytics enables telecom companies to derive actionable insights from massive volumes of customer, network, and usage data. This leads to improved operational efficiency, better customer segmentation, proactive service management, optimized resource allocation, reduced churn, and increased revenue. It also facilitates informed decision-making by offering a 360-degree view of business performance across regions, channels, and user groups.

What are the challenges faced in implementing data analytics in telecom?

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Telecom data analytics faces several key challenges:

  • Data silos & inconsistency across systems hinder accuracy
  • Real-time integration is difficult with legacy infrastructure
  • Security & compliance risks with sensitive user data
  • Scalability issues from growing data volumes (IoT, 5G)
  • Talent shortages in data science & analytics

How does predictive analytics benefit telecom companies?

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Predictive analytics enables telecom companies to reduce churn, prevent outages, and optimize network and customer operations. By analyzing past and real-time data, it forecasts demand spikes, detects fraud, anticipates hardware failures, and improves customer targeting. This leads to higher uptime, better service quality, smarter marketing, and cost savings—helping telcos act proactively instead of reactively across both technical and business functions.

What role does machine learning play in telecom data analytics?

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Machine learning powers telecom analytics by detecting fraud, predicting churn, optimizing networks, and automating operations. It analyzes patterns in massive datasets—enabling real-time decision-making, predictive maintenance, and dynamic pricing. ML also enhances customer segmentation and personalized service delivery, improving both performance and user satisfaction while cutting costs. As data grows, ML helps telecoms scale insights and adapt rapidly to changing conditions.

What tools and technologies are commonly used in telecom data analytics?

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Telecom data analytics uses a mix of tools for data processing, visualization, and machine learning. Key technologies include:

  • Data Processing: Apache Spark, Hadoop, and Kafka for handling large-scale data
  • Visualization & BI: Tableau, Power BI, Sisense for insights and reporting
  • Programming: Python, R for data analysis and machine learning
  • Cloud & Big Data: Google BigQuery, AWS, Snowflake for scalable data storage
  • AI/ML & NLP: For predictive analytics, fraud detection, and personalized services.
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