Nacascolo Holdings is a business and startup accelerator headquartered in San José, Costa Rica, that develops strategies to invest in established companies seeking capital and growth opportunities. This family-owned company strengthens businesses through strategic alliances with the companies it selects, maintaining a symbiosis with their founders.
Nacascolo Holdings has an investment portfolio built on 3 main pillars: Health and Wellness, Adventure, and Real Estate, encompassing more than 25 brands that reach thousands of local and international consumers.
As a conglomerate of diverse brands, Nacascolo Holdings needed a solution that would let it view all the information the organization generated, globally and in the shortest possible time.
Looking for a Business Intelligence solution was the next step Nacascolo Holdings took to simplify getting answers from all of its organizational data.
That is how IVCISA, as a trusted AWS partner, offered Nacascolo Holdings the viable alternative that helped it adapt all its data-analysis needs with the best price-performance ratio, scalability, and lowest cost.
To analyze the data from the 3 pillars of its portfolio, Nacascolo Holdings had to access various platforms to extract the information, export it to Excel, and then analyze it.
As Franco Godio, the organization's Business Intelligence Manager, explains, Nacascolo Holdings decided the solution was to build a Data Lake that would let it access all the information without having to spend many hours connecting to different VPNs or systems like SAP to obtain the reports it needed. The goal was to have everything in one place.
Focused on these needs, Nacascolo Holdings selected IVCISA as a specialized AWS partner to modernize and automate the company's Business Intelligence processes, offering the solution that fit the business's needs perfectly.
This is how the strategic relationship with the IVCISA team began, along with the project to build the entire Data Lake infrastructure on AWS, with data extraction and replication, cleansing, transformation, and a data catalog using AWS Glue, Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, and DMS, as well as Amazon QuickSight for report generation.
“I had already had a very good experience with Amazon Web Services solving the same problem of having to access various VPNs and extract the information to analyze it.”
Nacascolo Holdings had a clear view of the results it would obtain by starting the project with IVCISA and building an entire architecture on Amazon Web Services—one that would improve the extraction and transformation of data for subsequent analysis and enable working with data in real time, thereby achieving a competitive advantage.
This modernization of its data-analysis processes brought the organization significant savings in time and costs, reducing the preparation of the weekly and monthly management-level reports from days to practically zero hours.
This project also implemented good practices in data governance, management, optimization, and security, as well as automation of extraction and real-time access and availability.
For Nacascolo Holdings, IVCISA delivered the expected results, providing an autonomous service aligned with the client's needs and enabling the speed its Business Intelligence processes required.
“IVCISA provided a very autonomous service; I would just say what I needed, and through weekly sessions they made it clear that work was underway. If we're talking about Net Promoter Score, I'd give IVCISA a 10.”
