{"id":497758,"date":"2021-12-16T13:37:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T12:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devoteam.com\/success-story\/enabling-the-royal-belgian-football-association-to-get-a-true-360-view-of-its-customers\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T14:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T12:36:09","slug":"enabling-the-royal-belgian-football-association-to-get-a-true-360-view-of-its-customers","status":"publish","type":"success-story","link":"https:\/\/devoteam.info\/uk\/success-story\/enabling-the-royal-belgian-football-association-to-get-a-true-360-view-of-its-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Enabling the Royal Belgian Football Association to get a true 360\u0f20 view of its customers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devoteam.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/RBFA-logo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22353\" width=\"189\" height=\"367\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-about-arvesta\">About&nbsp;the Royal Belgian Football Association<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Royal Belgian Football Association (RBFA) is the governing body and official representative of football in Belgium. It was a founding member of FIFA in 1904 and UEFA in 1954 and is based in Brussels, Belgium. Its mission is the administrative and sporting organisation of Belgian football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The RBFA&#8217;s activities are divided into two areas: professional football, where professional clubs have joined together under a representative association called Pro League, and amateur football, consisting of two&nbsp;regional federations: ACFF (Association des Clubs Francophones de Football) and Voetbal Vlaanderen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Problem<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Initially, back in 2017 when the RBFA first talked to partner Devoteam G Cloud, there were several pain points in their data strategy that they wanted to address: the website was not personalised, there was no way of giving back to partners and their data wasn\u2019t smart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The RBFA\u2019s data was located in silos. The biggest part of it was hosted on an on-premises Oracle server and the rest of the data coming from their digital channels like their website(s), mobile app, newsletters, eCommerce, and marketing tools were stored in separate environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The IT Teams were receiving too many ad-hoc requests for data and insights, from different teams in the organisation, such as the marketing or commercial teams. However, they were not able to provide adequate insights due to the lack of a proper data &amp; analytics strategy and data warehouse.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s why the RBFA was looking for a way to get an overview of their stakeholders (Belgian Football Clubs, players, parents, fans, club staff &amp; third party partners,&#8230;). They were looking for a solution to be able to provide insights and analytics out of their data to their different teams internally.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Goal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The end goal of the RBFA was to get a better understanding of their players, members, fans, and everyone that interacted in some way with their organisation in order to serve them better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By mapping all user behaviour in a data lake, the RBFA would benefit from a 360 view of its users and get to work with it to make the content more personalised. The aim was clear:&nbsp; a football first and innovative association where every stakeholder feels he gets a personalised experience with the RBFA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Overall the RBFA wanted to become a data-driven organisation and asked partner Devoteam G Cloud to help them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Solution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In order to support this goal, Devoteam G Cloud proposed a strategy based on 4 steps:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Define the vision<\/li><li>Implement a Data Lake<\/li><li>Gather insights<\/li><li>Develop Smart Services<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1. Define the vision<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was the first and essential step to start this project which allowed Devoteam G Cloud to better understand the different customer journeys, the needs of both internal and external stakeholders, and the quick wins.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2. Implement the Data Lake<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In order to form a Data Lake we needed to gather the RBFA\u2019s data which was located in silos. The Devoteam G Cloud&#8217;s team started ingesting data from the different sources (Match ticketing, email marketing tool, support tickets, Oracle database, Google Analytics,..).<br>Those ingestions arrived in the Landing Zone (where data is found in its raw form).&nbsp;It then aggregates and arrives in the Data Warehouse to serve analytics purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, the data is transformed to go in the Data Marts where it can be used for dashboarding purposes. While working on this, we created some automatic quality checks which helped the RBFA to understand the quality issues they were facing and take action to improve the quality of their data at the source.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>3. Gather insights<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now that we had this structure, it was time to expose this data to the business so that they could make use of it and impact the way they interact with their stakeholders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Devoteam G Cloud&#8217;s team started to work on some dashboards together with RBFA to answer the need for analytics. This way, the business didn\u2019t need to go to IT anymore to ask for reports but could see up-to-date information when needed.<br><br>The creation of these basic dashboards was directly followed with the creation of a 360\u00b0&nbsp;view of every stakeholder. The 360\u00b0&nbsp;view helps the business understand the result of all the ingestions and the benefits of the Data Lake. The business is able to search for specific stakeholders and understand how they interact with the RBFA through the different possible endpoints.<br><br>However, the 360\u00b0&nbsp;view alone could not help with personalised interactions with several users at the same time. Therefore, we used the basis of the 360\u00b0&nbsp;view to build a segmentation tool. Thanks to this segmentation tool, the business is now able to send targeted and personalised mail campaigns which they were not able to do before the creation of the Data Lake.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>4. Develop Smart Services<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The segmentation tool was the first step to show a direct impact of the Data Lake on the communications towards the different stakeholders of the RBFA. We then decided to automate this by connecting this segmentation tool to a new Omnichannel tool acquired by the RBFA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This allows us to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Send automated emails based on the data from the Data Lake<\/li><li>Send personalised push notifications<\/li><li>Add some dynamic content on the website and mobile app to show a personalised experience<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devoteam.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/rbfa-app-img-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22372\" width=\"244\" height=\"433\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Devoteam G Cloud also collaborated with the RBFA to rebuild their mobile application. Now&nbsp; the mobile application is served by the Data Lake. The user receives in real-time data on its app and personalised content when asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t<div class=\"align wp-block-acf-quote\">\n\n\t\n\t<figure class=\"text-center\"><blockquote class=\"blockquote\"><svg width=\"49\" height=\"38\" viewBox=\"0 0 49 38\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n<path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M42.875 0C44.4995 0 46.0574 0.652728 47.206 1.81459C48.3547 2.97645 49 4.55228 49 6.1954V15.4885C49 17.1316 48.3547 18.7075 47.206 19.8693C46.0574 21.0312 44.4995 21.6839 42.875 21.6839H33.6875C33.6875 24.1486 34.6555 26.5123 36.3785 28.2551C38.1014 29.9979 40.4383 30.977 42.875 30.977H45.9375C46.7497 30.977 47.5287 31.3034 48.103 31.8843C48.6773 32.4652 49 33.2532 49 34.0747C49 34.8963 48.6773 35.6842 48.103 36.2651C47.5287 36.8461 46.7497 37.1724 45.9375 37.1724H42.875C38.8139 37.1724 34.9191 35.5406 32.0474 32.6359C29.1758 29.7313 27.5625 25.7917 27.5625 21.6839V6.1954C27.5625 4.55228 28.2078 2.97645 29.3565 1.81459C30.5051 0.652728 32.063 0 33.6875 0H42.875ZM15.3125 0C16.937 0 18.4949 0.652728 19.6435 1.81459C20.7922 2.97645 21.4375 4.55228 21.4375 6.1954V15.4885C21.4375 17.1316 20.7922 18.7075 19.6435 19.8693C18.4949 21.0312 16.937 21.6839 15.3125 21.6839H6.125C6.125 24.1486 7.09296 26.5123 8.81596 28.2551C10.5389 29.9979 12.8758 30.977 15.3125 30.977H18.375C19.1872 30.977 19.9662 31.3034 20.5405 31.8843C21.1148 32.4652 21.4375 33.2532 21.4375 34.0747C21.4375 34.8963 21.1148 35.6842 20.5405 36.2651C19.9662 36.8461 19.1872 37.1724 18.375 37.1724H15.3125C11.2514 37.1724 7.35658 35.5406 4.48493 32.6359C1.61328 29.7313 0 25.7917 0 21.6839V6.1954C0 4.55228 0.645313 2.97645 1.79397 1.81459C2.94263 0.652728 4.50055 0 6.125 0H15.3125Z\" fill=\"#3C3C3A\"\/>\n<\/svg><p>Once we have the right consent of the users,  we can collect explicit and implicit feedback from them. We then have a 360\u00b0 view of the user\u2019s engagement and are able to recommend specific corporate content and commercial content. A fully personalised experience!<\/p><\/blockquote><figcaption class=\"blockquote-footer\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8d39b2df wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6fa7971b wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n\t<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:500\">Koen Landsheere<\/p>\n\t\n\t<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Digital IT Manager at the RBFA<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, Devoteam G Cloud is now working on integrating a recommender engine to start making some recommendations inside the app in order to increase the personalised experience and the time spent inside the app.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t<div class=\"align wp-block-acf-quote\">\n\n\t\n\t<figure class=\"text-center\"><blockquote class=\"blockquote\"><svg width=\"49\" height=\"38\" viewBox=\"0 0 49 38\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n<path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M42.875 0C44.4995 0 46.0574 0.652728 47.206 1.81459C48.3547 2.97645 49 4.55228 49 6.1954V15.4885C49 17.1316 48.3547 18.7075 47.206 19.8693C46.0574 21.0312 44.4995 21.6839 42.875 21.6839H33.6875C33.6875 24.1486 34.6555 26.5123 36.3785 28.2551C38.1014 29.9979 40.4383 30.977 42.875 30.977H45.9375C46.7497 30.977 47.5287 31.3034 48.103 31.8843C48.6773 32.4652 49 33.2532 49 34.0747C49 34.8963 48.6773 35.6842 48.103 36.2651C47.5287 36.8461 46.7497 37.1724 45.9375 37.1724H42.875C38.8139 37.1724 34.9191 35.5406 32.0474 32.6359C29.1758 29.7313 27.5625 25.7917 27.5625 21.6839V6.1954C27.5625 4.55228 28.2078 2.97645 29.3565 1.81459C30.5051 0.652728 32.063 0 33.6875 0H42.875ZM15.3125 0C16.937 0 18.4949 0.652728 19.6435 1.81459C20.7922 2.97645 21.4375 4.55228 21.4375 6.1954V15.4885C21.4375 17.1316 20.7922 18.7075 19.6435 19.8693C18.4949 21.0312 16.937 21.6839 15.3125 21.6839H6.125C6.125 24.1486 7.09296 26.5123 8.81596 28.2551C10.5389 29.9979 12.8758 30.977 15.3125 30.977H18.375C19.1872 30.977 19.9662 31.3034 20.5405 31.8843C21.1148 32.4652 21.4375 33.2532 21.4375 34.0747C21.4375 34.8963 21.1148 35.6842 20.5405 36.2651C19.9662 36.8461 19.1872 37.1724 18.375 37.1724H15.3125C11.2514 37.1724 7.35658 35.5406 4.48493 32.6359C1.61328 29.7313 0 25.7917 0 21.6839V6.1954C0 4.55228 0.645313 2.97645 1.79397 1.81459C2.94263 0.652728 4.50055 0 6.125 0H15.3125Z\" fill=\"#3C3C3A\"\/>\n<\/svg><p>The biggest value is that we can continuously enrich our 360\u00b0 view of the user and work with it. Making the record of our user as rich as possible is gold.<\/p><\/blockquote><figcaption class=\"blockquote-footer\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8d39b2df wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6fa7971b wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n\t<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:500\">Koen Landsheere<\/p>\n\t\n\t<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Digital IT Manager at the RBFA<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Special note: All the decisions regarding security were taken with the supervision of the RBFA\u2019s Data Protection Officer (DPO) as well as the ICT team of the RBFA. 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The app is always improving: our team is constantly adding a bunch of new features: from a new ticketing system to fan engagement integrations and video integrations.<\/p><\/blockquote><figcaption class=\"blockquote-footer\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8d39b2df wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6fa7971b wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n\t<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:500\">Koen Landsheere<\/p>\n\t\n\t<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Digital IT Manager, RBFA<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Technology used<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first step to take was to review the IT infrastructure of the RBFA and migrate their data to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gcloudpage.devoteam.com\/google-cloud-platform?hsLang=en\">Google Cloud<\/a>. The entire infrastructure is now managed by Infrastructure-as-code (with a.o. Terraform). All the services\/data pipelines are deployed by our CI\/CD solution and are fully managed, Google Cloud-native microservices.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monitoring and logging analysis was set up, as well as organisational level cost analysis dashboards. Other Google Cloud technologies implemented are Cloud Run &amp; App Engine, GCP API Portal &amp; Cloud Composer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Result<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s now possible for the RBFA to engage new types of analytics like big data and machine learning and to better manage this data complexity. The Marketing department uses the user\u2019s data and analytics to create various audience segments and profiles which are later exposed to content tailored specifically for their profiles. This simple access to the data has made content personalisation a lot more effective which brings also more value to the&nbsp;commercial partners. From now on&nbsp;commercial partners&nbsp;can reach specific stakeholders which are more interested in their product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The IT team was able to win back 10% of it\u2019s time that was usually spent on creating reports for the business. Marketing is becoming more independent from the IT department because they have direct access to the data.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devoteam.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/rbfa-app-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22384\" width=\"443\" height=\"354\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By bringing all the data together, launching the brand-new&nbsp;RBFA app &amp; working on some very targeted personalisation, the RBFA is now better able to understand and respond to their customer needs \u2014 and that leads to growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\t<div class=\"align wp-block-acf-quote\">\n\n\t\n\t<figure class=\"text-center\"><blockquote class=\"blockquote\"><svg width=\"49\" height=\"38\" viewBox=\"0 0 49 38\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n<path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M42.875 0C44.4995 0 46.0574 0.652728 47.206 1.81459C48.3547 2.97645 49 4.55228 49 6.1954V15.4885C49 17.1316 48.3547 18.7075 47.206 19.8693C46.0574 21.0312 44.4995 21.6839 42.875 21.6839H33.6875C33.6875 24.1486 34.6555 26.5123 36.3785 28.2551C38.1014 29.9979 40.4383 30.977 42.875 30.977H45.9375C46.7497 30.977 47.5287 31.3034 48.103 31.8843C48.6773 32.4652 49 33.2532 49 34.0747C49 34.8963 48.6773 35.6842 48.103 36.2651C47.5287 36.8461 46.7497 37.1724 45.9375 37.1724H42.875C38.8139 37.1724 34.9191 35.5406 32.0474 32.6359C29.1758 29.7313 27.5625 25.7917 27.5625 21.6839V6.1954C27.5625 4.55228 28.2078 2.97645 29.3565 1.81459C30.5051 0.652728 32.063 0 33.6875 0H42.875ZM15.3125 0C16.937 0 18.4949 0.652728 19.6435 1.81459C20.7922 2.97645 21.4375 4.55228 21.4375 6.1954V15.4885C21.4375 17.1316 20.7922 18.7075 19.6435 19.8693C18.4949 21.0312 16.937 21.6839 15.3125 21.6839H6.125C6.125 24.1486 7.09296 26.5123 8.81596 28.2551C10.5389 29.9979 12.8758 30.977 15.3125 30.977H18.375C19.1872 30.977 19.9662 31.3034 20.5405 31.8843C21.1148 32.4652 21.4375 33.2532 21.4375 34.0747C21.4375 34.8963 21.1148 35.6842 20.5405 36.2651C19.9662 36.8461 19.1872 37.1724 18.375 37.1724H15.3125C11.2514 37.1724 7.35658 35.5406 4.48493 32.6359C1.61328 29.7313 0 25.7917 0 21.6839V6.1954C0 4.55228 0.645313 2.97645 1.79397 1.81459C2.94263 0.652728 4.50055 0 6.125 0H15.3125Z\" fill=\"#3C3C3A\"\/>\n<\/svg><p>One of the reasons why we chose Devoteam G Cloud is for their innovative hatch. 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