Swiss Financial Services

Compared two existing data platforms (Cloudera & Foundry) to determine the suitability of each solution and define a future platform strategy

Problem

• Leading Swiss Financial Services wanted to compare scope and maturity of two of their deployed Big Data platforms (Cloudera and Palantir Foundry)
• Assessment required for compliance reasons and to decide on future platform strategy

Solution

• Compared platforms across 5 dimensions:
  – data management and governance
  – data engineering
  – analytics & science
  – security
  – platform openness
• Assessed strengths & weaknesses in depth and developed recommendations for CDO

Impact

• Increased awareness on strengths and weaknesses of deployed platforms in different application scenarios
• CDO achieved buy-in of compliance department
• Established a good decision basis for future platform strategy initiatives