Databricks Media and Entertainment Israel

Quago

Fraud Detection · Real-time Analytics

Quago is leveling the playing field within the online game industry with an in-game behavioral analytics platform designed to mitigate cheating and fraudulent activity to ensure the best gaming experience possible. Through the analysis of players’ device sensor data, Quago can quickly identify patterns and provide game companies actionable insights around cheating, churn and player behavior.

10s of millions Potential dollar savings by reducing in-app purchase losses due to fraud
25% Estimated reduction in gaming company server costs
4x Faster SQL queries compared to a vanilla Parquet lake

Reported impact

Business outcome

Reported outcomes include 4x Faster SQL queries compared to a vanilla Parquet lake; 25% Estimated reduction in gaming company server costs; 10s of millions Potential dollar savings by reducing in-app purchase losses due to fraud.

  • Cost Reduction
  • Productivity Improvement
  • Risk Reduction
  • Scalability

Solution

Quago is leveling the playing field within the online game industry with an in-game behavioral analytics platform designed to mitigate cheating and fraudulent activity to ensure the best gaming experience possible. Through the analysis of players’ device sensor data, Quago can quickly identify patterns and provide game companies actionable insights around cheating, churn and player behavior. Seeking cost-effective scaling and infrastructure management, Quago migrated to the Databricks Data + AI Platform. As a result, they experienced significant improvements in performance and scalability, achieving 4x faster SQL queries compared to their previous lake infrastructure. This resulted in reduced server costs for their customers and potential savings of tens of millions of dollars by lessening in-app purchase losses due to fraud.

Data flow

Transaction, dispute, and event data lands in Databricks, is transformed in Delta Lake tables, and is served to downstream users and applications through Databricks SQL.

Solution architecture

3 components · 3 layers
  1. Compute
    • Databricks Data + AI Platform Provides the shared lakehouse environment for ingestion, engineering, analytics, and AI workloads.
  2. Storage
    • Delta Lake Stores curated lakehouse tables used for reliable downstream analytics and AI workloads.
  3. Serving
    • Databricks SQL Serves dashboards, self-service queries, and business intelligence for downstream users.

Architecture clues

  • Runs on AWS.

Evidence from the source

10s of millions Potential dollar savings by reducing in-app purchase losses due to fraud
25% Estimated reduction in gaming company server costs
4x Faster SQL queries compared to a vanilla Parquet lake
Quago is leveling the playing field within the online game industry with an in-game behavioral analytics platform designed to mitigate cheating and fraudulent activity to ensure the best gaming experience possible.
Through the analysis of players’ device sensor data, Quago can quickly identify patterns and provide game companies actionable insights around cheating, churn and player behavior.
Transparency Evidence & methodology 95/100 reference value · 92% confidence · 2 sources

Review how this reference was scored and trace each normalized claim back to its documented source.

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Scoring methodology

How scores are calculated

Customer Reference Value measures usefulness as a customer reference. Evidence Confidence measures the quality and traceability of available evidence, not independent verification.

Customer reference value95/100
  • Problem clarity20/20
    Measures whether the customer's operational problem is specific enough to compare.
  • Implementation depth20/25
    Rewards named components, data flow, integrations, and architecture detail.
  • Outcome specificity20/20
    Measures whether the reported benefit is concrete rather than a generic claim.
  • Quantified impact25/25
    3 metrics describe measurable impact.
  • Deployment scale10/10
    Rewards evidence of a live or scaled deployment and meaningful integration scope.
Evidence confidence92%
  • Source authority20/25
    The main evidence is an official vendor-published customer story.
  • Claim traceability23/25
    11 of 12 key fields link to a named source.
  • Direct evidence20/20
    5 direct source quotes retained.
  • Date provenance10/10
    The publication date comes from the source page or publisher.
  • Source transparency9/10
    2 source references document publisher, URL, authority, retrieval, and supported fields.
  • Implementation specificity10/10
    Rewards source-backed components, data flow, quantified impact, and a specific outcome.
02

Traceability

Sources & provenance

Field coverage shows which facts each source supports. Dates are shown only when documented by the source.

  1. Databricks

    Quago customer story

    First-party
    https://www.databricks.com/customers/quago
    Source type
    Vendor-published customer story
    Published
    Jun 6, 2024
    Supports
    • Customer
    • Business problem
    • Solution
    • Products
    • Solution components
    • Data flow
    • Integrations
    • technical area
    • use case category
    • Business outcome
    • outcome category
    • Metrics
    • Architecture
    • evidence quotes
    • Publication date
  2. Quago

    Privacy Policy & TOS - Quago

    First-party
    https://quago.io/quago-privacy-policy/

    The policy page gives the mailing address 'Moria 74, Haifa, 3461305, Israel.'

    Source type
    Official company website
    Supports
    • Region

Date evidence

  • Published on source page Jun 6, 2024 · Databricks · First-party
    Open date source
Not separately sourced Industry, Company size. Treat these normalized attributes as lower-confidence until a dedicated source is added.