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Unleashing Data Potential: Coforge Drives Efficiency and Agility in Big Data Analytics for Leading UK Bank

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Overview.

A leading UK bank embarked on a transformative journey to modernize its big data analytics platform and migrate its data lake to a high-performance, secure, auditable, and cost-effective cloud-based environment. The bank aimed to minimize efforts while ensuring zero impact on regulatory reporting SLAs and data quality. Coforge partnered with the bank to navigate the complexities of cloud migration, code upgrades, and platform enhancements, leveraging AWS technologies to drive efficiency and agility.

Challenges.

  • Modernizing the existing big data analytics platform 
  • Migrating data lake to a cloud-based environment 
  • Maintaining regulatory reporting SLAs and data quality during migration 
  • Overcoming scalability issues, especially in non-production environments 
  • Reducing cost of ownership and infrastructure maintenance costs 
  • Improving performance and reliability of data processing jobs

Solution.

Coforge implemented a cloud-based Data Lake using AWS technologies:

  • Lift and Shift Strategy: Migrated 70+ data pipelines for regulatory applications 
  • Efficient Processing: Used on-demand, small-size EMR clusters with Step Function orchestration 
  • Structured Data Storage: Stored data on S3 and used Glue for structuring 
  • Comprehensive Integration: Sourced data from multiple systems for risk metric calculations 
  • Upgraded Code Quality: Improved software, libraries, and test coverage 

Key highlights: 

  • Seamless migration of regulatory application pipelines 
  • On-demand EMR clusters for efficient data processing 
  • Structured data storage and analysis using AWS services
  • Improved code quality and test coverage

The Impact.

20%

Reduction in Cost of Ownership

20%

Reduction in Execution time

Zero

Reduction in Job Delay Occurrences

Zero

Cost of Infrastructure Maintenance

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