Case Study: ABN AMRO achieves 10x faster time-to-market and enterprise-scale data-driven transformation with Databricks

Financial services digital transformation at a global scale‌

ABN AMRO, a leading Dutch bank, struggled to modernize because of legacy on‑premises data warehouses and hundreds of terabytes of siloed data that created inefficient workflows and blocked collaboration across analytics teams. The fragmented stack limited the bank’s ability to scale data innovation and deliver timely, data‑driven services across marketing, risk and operations.

By adopting an Azure Databricks Lakehouse and a domain‑driven data mesh with a central platform team, ABN AMRO democratized data access and standardized tooling (including MLflow), empowering 500+ engineers, scientists and analysts. The bank now deploys use cases 10x faster, has delivered dozens of ML models, supports hundreds of users, and has 100+ use cases planned—improving targeted marketing, fraud detection, operational dashboards and overall agility.

ABN AMRO

Stefan Groot

Head of Analytics Engineering