Swiss Life

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

Overview

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.

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.

Project background

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

The Data Knowledge Catalog implementation process

During their search for a data catalog, DataGalaxy was chosen for several reasons:

Focus on their key segments

Promote attractive propositions

Make customer relationships more rewarding

Improve productivity

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

Technology stack

Oracle

IBM

Azure Data Lake Gen2

SQL Server

Power BI

Talend

Toucan Toco