Case Study - Business Intelligence

Case Study

Banking, Financial Services & Insurance

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Merger of Bank and Insurance Data Warehouse
Client Overview
The client is a member of a large Paris based group, providing services like Insurance, Asset Management, Banking and other Financial Services in Belgium

The Hexaware team provided a three-phased metadata driven approach. AS-IS Migration of Life Insurance DWH from Oracle to Teradata Convergence of Insurance Data Model with Bank Data Model on Teradata Extension of Merged Data Warehouse to include Non-Life data from Mainframe
INSURANCE DATA WAREHOUSE
Mainframe / DB2 DB2 Unloads
ETL Processing (ETL / COBOL)

Hexaware Approach

Technology Environment
Mainframe, DB2, COBOL Oracle 9i, Teradata V2R5 ,Brio, Hyperion Essbase, Syntell, ASP, Visual Studio, BTEQ

The Challenge
The challenge was to congregate Bank and Insurance Warehouse to a single Datawarehouse that would provide an integrated view of business in Belgium. Life Insurance Data on Oracle while Bank on Teradata Integration to be transparent to end-users i.e., no alteration in front-end Non-life Insurance data to be added Duplication of data across environments Difference in granularity of data Documentation missing for one system Strict timelines

Data Source 1
Transformed Flat Files

ORACLE

Syntell (Front-end)

Essbase Cubes

Data Warehouse

Intranet Portal / llS

BRIO Reports

Data Marts

BRIO Models

Value Delivered Client Benefits
Consistent integrated view of data across Bank and Insurance business Cross-selling opportunities visible Cost savings due to retiring one Warehouse. User effort on report collation saved
ENTERPRISE DATA WARE HOUSE (After Convergence)

Before: Insurance Warehouse (Oracle)

BANK DATA WAREHOUSE

Data Source 2
MP-RAS / TERADATA

Mainframe / DB2

DB2 Unloads

STAGE
Application Server / Sun Solaris

MO.RAS / TERADATA

BASE

FSLDM
Reporting BRIO / SAS / SQL Assistant)

M E T A D A T A

Mainframe / DB2

DB2 Unloads

STAGE

Application Server

Transformed Flat Files

BASE

Enterprise DW

Reporting BRIO / SAS / SQL Assistant)

EDW VIEWS

M E T A D A T A

VIEWS
Syntell (Front-end) Essbase Cubes

Data Mining (Teraminer)

DATA MARTS
NT

Data Mining (Teraminer)

DM VIEWS

NT

Before: Bank warehouse (MPRAS, Teradata)

Intranet Portal / llS

BRIO Reports

BRIO Models

After: Integrated Solution on MPRAS Teradata

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