Case Study: European Financial Services Company achieves €800K CAPEX savings and minute-scale deployments with Cloudera

European financial services company accelerates its cloud journey to increase innovation cycle with new use cases and infrastructure cost reduction

A European financial services company faced a critical data-infrastructure roadblock: its on-premises platform was reaching end-of-life, lacked AI/ML and streaming capabilities, mixed production and development workloads, and imposed long lead times that stifled innovation and risked a 20% higher cost over three years. The IT board mandated a fast move to a cloud-based architecture to productionize workloads and enable rapid deployment of new use cases before the legacy platform expired.

The company bought a Success Package—Cloudera training and professional services plus executive alignment with Accenture and Microsoft—and implemented the Accelerated Cloud Execution (ACE) program with tailored enablement sessions to upskill teams. The cloud platform now supports new CML use cases, cuts deployment from months to minutes, accelerates the innovation cycle and delivered about €800K in CAPEX infrastructure savings.