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Data Modernization for a Large Southeast Asian Bank: Leveraging Azure and Power BI for Enhanced Insights .

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Overview.

A large bank in Southeast Asia servicing retail and corporate customers faced challenges with limited data platform usage, high maintenance costs, and lack of actionable insights. Coforge implemented a comprehensive data and analytics transformation solution, leveraging Azure Data Lake, Power BI, and Azure ML to enhance data insights, reduce costs, and empower business users with self-service BI capabilities.

Challenges.

The client faced significant challenges in their data management and analytics processes: 

  • Limited Data Platform Usage: Underutilized data platform with high maintenance costs. 
  • Lack of Insights: Difficulty in deriving actionable insights from fragmented data. 
  • Fragmented Data Landscape: Disjointed data sources lacking integration and analytics capabilities. 

Solution.

Coforge implemented a comprehensive data and analytics transformation solution: 

  • Azure-Based Data Lake: Developed a data lake with a data model and data dictionary for retail banking. 
  • Analytics Center of Excellence (CoE): Established an Analytics CoE within the bank. 
  • Cloud Data Warehouse: Set up for direct and multidimensional analysis. 
  • Metadata-Driven Pipeline: Automated data quality and remediation processes. 
  • Interactive Dashboards: Created using Power BI for enhanced data visualization. 
  • Data Science Use Cases: Leveraged Azure ML and Databricks for data science projects. 
  • Agile Delivery Methodology: Ensured iterative and efficient delivery of solutions. 

Key Highlights: 

Coforge's innovative solution delivered significant value to the client's operations: 

  • Actionable Insights: Enabled the bank to derive actionable insights and establish an Analytics CoE. 
  • New Opportunities: Identified opportunities to sell products and services. 
  • Self-Service BI: Empowered business users to develop their own insights through self-service BI. 
  • Single Source of Truth: Established a unified data repository for customer data needs. 
  • Cost Reduction: Significantly reduced infrastructure and license costs through Azure adoption. 

The Impact.

Self-Service BI 

Empowered business users 

Data Management 

Single source of truth 

Cost Reduction 

Significant reduction in costs 

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