cloud-based data science laboratory ( IPA ) which provides the analytics capability and the technical scalability to over 40 data scientists across the organisation . Millar is quick to add that DNB takes a holistic approach to its vendor partnerships , representing a break from the approach the sector has taken in the past . DNB has taken a different route , bringing in the flexible , best of breed solutions : R-Studio , Jupyter Notebook , Spark , Neo4j among others , for their data science capabilities ; Trillium for data quality and Collibra for its crowdsourcing , ‘ business orientated ’, data governance toolset ; and the Celebrus platform from D4T4 for real-time , tag-free data capture across our digital channels ;
“ 2020 is the year for DNB to harvest the value of data and be even more relevant to our customers in their daily digital lives ”
— Aidan Millar , Chief Data and Analytics Officer , DNB
Infosys as the strategic data partner leveraging their capabilities and accelerators related to shaping data strategy , data governance tooling , analytics tooling and data engineering . When it comes to managing this array of vendors , Millar believes that DNB ’ s approach promotes reciprocity . “ I see our technology solution vendors as trusted solution partners ,” he says . “ We work closely together with our vendors to foster a trusted-partnerships where we co-create and deliver value together .”
DNB ’ s data transformation remains on course , despite the headwinds of the COVID-19 pandemic . Millar believes DNB has been well positioned to cope with the challenges of the pandemic and the next frontier of digitalisation . “ The investments made in data , underpinned by a data driven culture have enabled DNB to respond to these types of global crises much more effectively .” Millar has observed that IT solutions now have data and information at the core . “ 2020 is the year for DNB to harvest the value of data to be even more relevant to our customers in their daily digital lives ,” says Millar . “ Looking forward , our
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