Emirates NBD

Emirates NBD is a leading banking Group in the region. The Group has a significant retail banking franchise in the UAE and is a key participant in the global digital banking industry, with over 90 per cent of all financial transactions and requests conducted outside of its branches. The bank was declared the Most Innovative Financial Services Organization of the Year at the 2017 BAI Global Innovation Awards.

The bank currently has 227 branches and 1065 ATMs and SDMs in the UAE and overseas and a large social media following, being the only bank in the Middle East ranked among the top 20 in the ‘Power 100 Social Media Rankings’, compiled by The Financial Brand. It is a major player in the UAE corporate and retail banking arena and has strong Islamic Banking, Global Markets & Treasury, Investment Banking, Private Banking, Asset Management and Brokerage operations.

The Group has operations in the UAE, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, India, Singapore, the United Kingdom and representative offices in China and Indonesia.

Business Need

Building a single data platform that successfully caters to the needs of the entire bank as a multi-entity, geographically distributed organization

Enabling scalability as the bank grows

Leveraging data to enhance Customer Experience

Challenges

6000+ relational tables - transformed and ingested into Hadoop

Combined Hadoop and SAP into complex architecture

Solutions & Results

Automated design time configurations, generation, scheduling, orchestration, automated recovery, audit and reconciliation, parameters for dynamic templates in Big Data Management

Dynamic mapping templates for various ingestion use cases

With Informatica SAP HANA pushdown-based solution, we can achieve 80% pushdown with around 200,000 rows per second