BUILDING THE AI FOUNDATION – Large Financial Services Client’ DATA LAKE JOURNEY WITH INFERYX

Cloud & Tech Stack

CHALLENGE

A leading enterprise managing trillions of data points embarked on a mission to modernize its data infrastructure with a cloud-native data lake, targeting scalability, faster time-to-market, and enhanced analytics capabilities.

However, within six months, the initiative faced significant hurdles:

Escalating infrastructure costs driven by exponential data growth
Limited in-house expertise to manage and optimize cloud-native architecture
Fragmented pipelines that hindered smooth onboarding of new datasets
Lack of a unified catalog and governance framework, resulting in poor data trust and delayed AI adoption

These challenges highlighted the need for a platform that could bring together data cataloging, engineering, and governance under one roof - a need fulfilled by the Inferyx Data Intelligence Platform, designed to simplify complex data ecosystems and enable enterprises to unlock the true value of their data.

RESULTS

35%

reduction in total cost of ownership

40%

faster time-to-insight

100K+

cataloged data attributes for faster discovery

30M+

records processed per day with 99.9% pipeline uptime

7M+

customer records enriched and ready for AI/ML models

Advanced use cases

  • cross-sell
  • personalization
  • risk models

AI-ready foundation

  • searchable
  • governed data

SOLUTION

The enterprise adopted the Inferyx Data Intelligence Platform - a cloud-agnostic, open lakehouse solution built for speed, governance, and AI readiness.

Automated Cataloging

of vast data fields across multiple source systems

End-to-end lineage and classification

for complete traceability

Real-time Ingestion

by Apache Kafka and schema evolution support

Low-code

transformations with Apache Spark for rapid pipeline creation

Cloud flexibility

deployed fully on AWS, capable of running on any cloud

IMPLEMENTATION

Within three months, the enterprise deployed multiple data lakes with 100+ tables per entity using Inferyx:

01

Provisioned scalable, cloud-native infrastructure across 25 source systems

02

Orchestrated 50+ data pipelines with low-code automation

03

Automated cataloging and governance for more than 1000+ data assets

04

Enabled high-volume data ingestion for batch and streaming

05

Established federated access for analytics and AI-driven use cases

CLIENT TESTIMONIAL

“With Inferyx, we didn’t just deploy a data lake; we built the foundation for our AI journey. Today, every business unit has trusted, governed data at their fingertips, enabling faster insights and confident decisions.”
— CDO, Large Financial Services Client