A global top 10 financial institution needed to reduce redundant Databricks clusters used for governed analytical queries, which were driving up compute costs and operational overhead. The enterprise governance function, responsible for unified reporting across Finance, Risk, Compliance, and Operations, deployed Denodo’s Lakehouse Accelerator to create a shared and governed analytical compute layer.
The Lakehouse Accelerator delivered comparable performance to Databricks for dashboard and reporting workloads while eliminating cold start latency and unnecessary clusters. Logical isolation and policy-based access maintained strict compliance without duplicating infrastructure. The result is a cost-efficient architecture that aligns compute with purpose, using Denodo for governed analytics and Databricks for advanced engineering and machine learning.
