Data Lake / Data Warehouse Modernization · Marketing Personalization · Risk Management
Their legacy on-premises environment struggled to keep up with the volume and velocity of data required to enable this ecosystem.
Reported impact
Discovery Bank achieved measurable business impact on Databricks, including 20x Faster data processing times — from 9 hours to < 10 minutes; 5x Faster data product creation and implementation times; 40% Uplift in the impact of customer engagement activities.
Discovery Bank was launched in 2019 to transform banking in South Africa with their shared value banking model. By incentivizing and empowering clients to cultivate positive financial habits, Discovery Bank creates a virtuous cycle wherein clients, the bank and society at large benefit. Using the Databricks Data + AI Platform, Discovery Bank combines data and actuarial science with behavioral economics, AI and machine learning (ML) to create data products and hyper-personalized experiences that reward healthy banking habits and lower financial risk. The Databricks Data + AI Platform transformed the bank’s ability to create fast and reliable data products, resulting in substantial client, business and societal impact.
Operational, customer, and transactional data lands in Databricks and is transformed into curated datasets stored in Delta Lake under Unity Catalog governance
20x Faster data processing times — from 9 hours to < 10 minutes
40% Uplift in the impact of customer engagement activities
5x Faster data product creation and implementation times
Discovery Bank was launched in 2019 to transform banking in South Africa with their shared value banking model.
These efficiencies resulted in an exponential increase in time to insights, time to production and ultimately, data-led innovation, yielding a significant return on investment of more than 500%.
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