Webinar: A journey from gigas to petabytes database service: the Informa D&B case

December 2nd 16:00 CET

Discover the data strategy of Informa D&B, the leader scoring company in Portugal, Spain, and Colombia. Learn how it has accelerated its data processing by 72 times, reducing the cost of its platform and what it has meant for the business.

Being data-driven is a key advantage for companies since the volume of existing information increases exponentially.

It raises new technological challenges that shape IT strategies: The need for agile data architectures, capable of scaling as much as necessary and combining high ingestion with fast processing.

To meet this challenge, Informa D&B has adopted LeanXcale technology and it has accelerated its data processing, making processes that used to take several days to be executed in just a few minutes.

In this webinar Carlos Fernandes, CTO of Informa D&B will explain his vision for the next decade and how LeanXcale will help in this transition.

What will we talk about?

In this 45 minutes webinar, on December 2nd at 16:00 CET, we will discuss the following topics:

  • The Informa IT strategy:
    • Who is Informa
    • How to remain leaders in 10 years?
    • The Marketing DB Case
      • The Previous situation
      • Performannce improvemennt
      • Operation risk reduction
      • New Capacities
      • The technology adoption
  • The underlying technology
    • Intaking features
    • Transformation capabilities
    • Big Volumes
    • Scalability
  • Demo: Personal Loans Data Procesing
  • Q&A
 
 

Informa D&B, a company of the CESCE group, is the leader provider for Commercial, Financial, Sectorial and Marketing Information in Portugal, Spain and Colombia, and is part of the Dun & Bradstreet network.

Informa invests 12 million euros a year just in the purchase and processing of information.

 

The panelists

CARLOS Fernández

Informa D&B CTO

 
 
Carlos Fernández holds a Superior Degree in Physics and an MBA from the “Instituto de Empresa” in Madrid. His professional career has included companies such as Saint Gobain, Indra, Reuters and Fedea.

He is Deputy General Manager at INFORMA and a member of the board of the XBRL Spanish Jurisdiction. In addition, he is a member of the Alcobendas City Council’s Open Data Advisory Board. Furthermore, he is a former member of various boards: ASNEF Logalty, ASFAC Logalty and CTI.

He is a former member of GREFIS (Financial Information Services Group of Experts) and a current member of XBRL CRAS (Credit Risk Services).

Ricardo Jiménez-Peris

CEO de LeanXcale

 
 

Ricardo, who holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), has spent more than 20 years researching scalability in transaction processing. From this research was born LeanXcale, a company he created to bring the innovations developed in his research to the market.