EDC & Axon Implementation at Global Asset Manager

One of the world’s largest independent asset managers, with $1.3T under management

Catalog large volumes of internal and external data, improving availability to fund managers, data scientists, and data analysts
Semantic search for key indexes, index performance, fund performance, geographic, demographic, and market data
Serve a broad group of stakeholders including Quants, data science teams, data stewards, and data management
Centralize management of enterprise-wide “data dictionary”

Complex data environment across applications, cloud data lake (Hadoop), and databases including:
- 17 external datasets including uncategorized third-party data from sources such as MSCI, Bloomberg, and Federal Reserve
- 184 tables
Overcoming product and client security and complexity infrastructure issues
Changing client culture from an “ownership” model to a federated model

Installed, configured, and tested EDC and Axon across the enterprise
Scanned and profiled all data and enabled technical metadata in EDC
- 200 data elements, 8.4M variables, 2.9B rows
Enabled semantic search in Axon, estimated impact 13% profitability
Simplified, automated search for related information, scanning all data sources without regard to format or location, reducing search time by 31%
Business glossary productionized and adopted by 3 business lines
Enabled client to track data lineage, perform data profiling, search data, and view data quality scores for a target quality increase of 28%