“ We have to stay relevant and add value to customers in their daily digital lives ”
— Aidan Millar , Chief Digital Officer , DNB
127 of DNB enterprise data and analytics platform , Millar says , has been the establishment of DNB ’ s advanced cloud based data science laboratory which provides the analytics capability and the technical scalability required to process the massive volumes of data in near real time . Amazon AWS comes in as DNB ’ s primary big data appliance , but 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 : “ Traditionally , most big banks went with one data vendor , but that didn ’ t enable them to leverage the niche capabilities of multiple partners .” DNB has taken a different route , bringing in the flexible , best of breed solutions : R-Studio , Jupyter Notebook , Spark and Neo4j , among others , for their data science capabilities ; Syncsort ( Trillium ) for data quality ; Collibra for its crowdsourcing business orientated data governance toolset ; and Celebrus , the real-time Customer Data Platform from D4t4 Solutions Plc for leading edge tagless digital
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