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Swiss Life

Insurance leader Swiss Life uses DataGalaxy to boost new AI use cases and facilitate data democratization among the entire organization

customer overview

Swiss Life

Founded in Switzerland in 1857, the Swiss Life group is one of Europe’s leading providers of life insurance, life insurance and retirement products. For over 160 years, Swiss Life has been helping private and corporate clients prepare their financial future.

In France, Swiss Life is one of the leading players in the life and retirement, wealth insurance, and health and protection insurance markets.

Industry: Insurance

Headquarters: Zurich, Switzerland

Workforce: 9,800+ employees

Financials: Turnover of $20M CHF and a SII ratio of 195%

Strategy:

  • Focus on their key segments
  • Promote attractive propositions
  • Make customer relationships more rewarding
  • Improve productivity

Thanks to DataGalaxy, we can finally track data end-to-end and identify data ownership. DataGalaxy’s Data Knowledge Catalog has provided so many benefits for our organization, including a fully-documented functional and technical use case, a thorough algorithm library, and a clear identification of ownership between IT, business, data, and BI teams.

Emmanuel Dubois
Swiss Life Chief Data Officer

mission

Swiss Life understands the value of data and the need to position each enterprise actor at the right place on the data value chain. The Swiss Life data management roadmap focused on five pillars:

Governance

Knowledge

Quality

Protection

IT infrastructure

just the facts

Implementing a data catalog supporting Data Scientists focuses on:

  • Understand: What is available to build algorithms
  • Locate: Where is the data stored and how is it transformed
  • Share: Build new data sets that can be reused across the Data Science team

The project methodology addressed the following:

  • Agility: Think big, start small, and move fast!
  • Technical inventory of 17 systems and 30 data assets
  • Algorithm documentation, including sources, transformation, and usages in reporting
  • Development of an organizational Business Glossary
  • Roadshow to business for evangelization and adoption

The Swiss Life Technology Stack

Oracle

Talend

IMB

Toucan Toco

Azure Data Lake Gen2

SQL Server

Power BI

Oracle

Talend

IMB

Azure Data Lake Gen2

Power BI

Toucan Toco

SQL Server

Watch the conference
from Swiss Life & DataGalaxy
at Big Data & AI 2022

Swiss Life’s Emmanuel Dubois, Chief Data Officer and Laetitia Renard, Head of Data Governance and Quality, discuss the steps involved in implementing data governance and choosing a data catalog.

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