This global financial institution, serving 80M+ clients across Canada, the US, Asia, and the UK, offers a wide range of insurance, investment, and retirement planning services. To modernize its data landscape and empower business users, the company turned to Denodo to unify data, enable self-service, and accelerate decision-making.
Why Denodo
- 5x faster data delivery, reducing development from 10–24 weeks to just 3 weeks
- Self-service access with governed, role-based controls via the Denodo Data Catalog
- Rapid integration across AWS, on-premises, and legacy platforms without disruption
Challenges
- Data was locked in silos with no clear ownership, delaying even basic reporting
- Legacy systems lacked documentation, creating confusion and onboarding delays
- Business teams couldn’t explore or access data without IT intervention
- Multiple handoffs and hops increased the risk of unauthorized data exposure
Solution
The company selected Denodo to consolidate disparate data sources, enforce access controls, and enable real-time, self-service insights. A pilot with one subsidiary focused on client profiling for upselling and cross-selling, integrating data from lakes, transactions, and marketing systems. Using Denodo’s semantic layer and Athena connectors, the team delivered insights via Tableau and began expanding to QuickSight and AWS S3.
Benefits
With Denodo, the company was able to achieve significant business benefits. Denodo’s logical data management capabilities enabled quick data access and analysis without moving data across multiple layers, delivering fast insights without the need for persisting multiple copies. Integration with various sources became seamless, enabling fast onboarding of new data and decommissioning of legacy systems with no disruption to the business.
