Case Study: NOL UNIVERSE achieves unified data management and greater efficiency with Databricks

Building a first-class data management environment to increase efficiency

NOL Universe, a leading travel, leisure, and culture platform in Korea, needed a better way to manage rapidly growing data spread across multiple brands and siloed legacy systems. Its existing setup couldn’t support efficient, enterprise-wide analytics, so the company turned to Databricks and the Databricks Platform to create a unified data environment.

Using Databricks, NOL Universe migrated about 2,500 Hive-based queries and moved Apache Airflow and Apache NiFi pipelines into one platform, consolidating BI and analytics operations. The result was end-to-end data management on a single system, self-service analytics for each business domain, a one-day cross-domain data integration process after the organization merger, faster batch processing, improved governance and security with Unity Catalog and SSO, and better cost control through DBU visibility.

NOL Universe

Jihyung Ryu

Chief Technology Officer