Download PDF
ABN AMRO's Azure-First Data Strategy for Enhanced Business Decisions
Technology Category
- Analytics & Modeling - Big Data Analytics
- Analytics & Modeling - Machine Learning
Applicable Industries
- Buildings
- Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions
- Warehouse & Inventory Management
Use Cases
- Mesh Networks
- Tamper Detection
Services
- Data Science Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
ABN AMRO, the third-largest bank in the Netherlands, was facing challenges with its on-premises servers. The bank, which processes a diverse and complex range of data daily, needed a more efficient and reliable way for its teams to access and contribute data. The bank's existing system, while secure and capable of handling millions of transactions daily, was not providing the speed and reliability required for efficient data access. The bank's data types ranged from business process management, HR systems, financial systems, customer systems, marketing systems, and commercial systems, to recorded conversations and correspondence with clients. The challenge was to find a solution that could handle this high variety of read patterns, duplicate data, and maintain control.
About The Customer
ABN AMRO is the third-largest bank in the Netherlands, with over 100 branch offices and more than 30,000 employees. The bank's mission statement, 'Banking for better, for generations to come,' is embodied by the way it uses digital services and data to support customers during key life moments. The bank processes a diverse and complex range of data daily, including data from business process management, HR systems, financial systems, customer systems, marketing systems, and commercial systems, as well as recorded conversations and correspondence with clients.
The Solution
ABN AMRO turned to Microsoft Azure for a solution. The bank migrated to the cloud, which offered greater scalability, ease of access, and a suite of Azure services to empower both customers and functional teams. The bank embraced a data mesh architecture on Azure, which allowed it to unlock data insights and drive business decisions. Azure Data Lake Storage and Azure Cosmos DB were used to meet the challenge of facilitating a high variety of read patterns while duplicating data and maintaining control. The bank also used Azure Data Lake Storage and the Parquet file format to make data readily available to a wide range of Azure services, including Azure Databricks and Azure Synapse. This allowed the bank's team to access data without having to process it into different formats.
Operational Impact
Quantitative Benefit
Related Case Studies.
Case Study
Energy Saving & Power Monitoring System
Recently a university in Taiwan was experiencing dramatic power usage increases due to its growing number of campus buildings and students. Aiming to analyze their power consumption and increase their power efficiency across 52 buildings, the university wanted to build a power management system utilizing web-based hardware and software. With these goals in mind, they contacted Advantech to help them develop their system and provide them with the means to save energy in the years to come.
Case Study
Intelligent Building Automation System and Energy Saving Solution
One of the most difficult problems facing the world is conserving energy in buildings. However, it is not easy to have a cost-effective solution to reduce energy usage in a building. One solution for saving energy is to implement an intelligent building automation system (BAS) which can be controlled according to its schedule. In Indonesia a large university with a five floor building and 22 classrooms wanted to save the amount of energy being used.
Case Study
Powering Smart Home Automation solutions with IoT for Energy conservation
Many industry leaders that offer Smart Energy Management products & solutions face challenges including:How to build a scalable platform that can automatically scale-up to on-board ‘n’ number of Smart home devicesData security, solution availability, and reliability are the other critical factors to deal withHow to create a robust common IoT platform that handles any kind of smart devicesHow to enable data management capabilities that would help in intelligent decision-making
Case Study
Commercial Building Automation Boosts Energy Efficiency
One of the challenges to building automation is the multitude of non-interoperable communications protocols that have evolved over the years. Buildings have several islands of automation. Bridging the islands of different automation without losing the considerable investment in each specialized control network is the main focus in this solution.
Case Study
Protecting a Stadium from Hazardous Materials Using IoT2cell's Mobility Platform
There was a need for higher security at the AT&T Stadium during the NFL draft. There was a need to ensure that nuclear radiation material was not smuggled inside the stadium. Hazmat materials could often be missed in a standard checkpoint when gaining entry into a stadium.
