Case Study: Leading Financial Group achieves $45M in external partner cost savings and 90% faster reporting with Informatica

This Leading Financial Group Unifies IT and Lines of Business Using Big Data

This Leading Financial Group, trusted by more than 17 million customers for retirement, insurance, and wealth protection, faced siloed, IT‑owned data that slowed analytics and decision‑making—data extracts often took four to six weeks, and inconsistent definitions hindered agility. The organization needed a centralized, self‑service analytics platform, better hybrid‑cloud data integration, and formalized data governance to reduce costs and respond faster to business demands.

Working with Deloitte, the company built a big‑data enablement platform on AWS using Informatica PowerCenter, Big Data Management (with Blaze Engine), Enterprise Data Catalog, and Data Masking to automate ETL, catalog assets, and provide governed self‑service access. The platform produced 1,000+ Tableau dashboards in year one, cut report generation time by 90%, enabled immediate access to governed data (vs. 1–2 weeks), eliminated many third‑party feeds, and delivered $45 million in external partner cost savings within two years.