09/27/2021 | News release | Distributed by Public on 09/28/2021 02:01
In financial services, data has always been viewed as a strategic asset. To manage this data, organizations have invested heavily over several years and across a number of technology generations in the underlying data infrastructure. This approach has left a large data technology legacy along with silos of data linked to specific infrastructure and applications.
As financial services organizations look to embrace much broader data-led strategies, they are combining both transactional and nontransactional data with advanced machine learning (ML) algorithms, to drive intelligent capabilities across all products and services.
The key challenge facing organizations that are developing these advanced products and services is to evolve their data infrastructure. They need to enable larger computational and data resources, which are required to run algorithms that underpin analytical methods. These methods are foundational to future of digital financial services.
This new generation of digitized products is driving adoption of the high-performance data infrastructure that is needed to enable new capabilities. This trend is amplified with the wide-scale adoption of cloud technologies, which drive an evolution from specialized data infrastructure to a cloud-native architecture. This architecture can support advanced analytics, ML and deep learning within a single environment.
This new course in data architecture will provide a number of key foundational capabilities that enable a converged approach, which is based on:
Historically, these types of analytical and ML activities have been viewed as separate technology stacks. This has created complexity and has had a significant impact on an organization's ability to be agile and innovate.
As demand for these new capabilities increases, we expect to see converged analytics architecture becoming the default approach for large financial services organizations as there are significant benefits in adopting a common data platform:
Beyond operational, technology and cost benefits, it's clear that financial services organizations choosing to adopt a converged analytics strategy will be in a position to realize significant competitive advantage: The platform will provide a foundation for creating highly differentiated data-driven capabilities:
Financial services organizations are competing to create the next-generation data-driven digital products. To be successful in this changing competitive landscape, organizations that want to lead will need to reformulate their data architectures and look to establish a converged analytics strategy.
Thomas De Souza is CTO of Financial Services at Hitachi Vantara.