Moving towards the scalable service-oriented data management organisation at OTP Bank

Abstract

This paper discusses data and data asset management, topics that are growing in importance in organisations, specifically in regard to managing data consciously as a strategic resource to create business value and building the real self-service data consumption capability. You can read a relevant use case in connection with establishing and transforming the data management organisation — which is basically the back-end function — into a service-based operation model from a component-focused one. By the end of the paper, you will have understood the importance of data strategy and the whole data galaxy focusing on the data modernisation programme in a Hungarian banking group. We were able to reduce data expenses (eg maintenance and license costs of data warehouses, implementation costs of new data elements) by modernising the IT architecture, despite the constantly growing amount of data and the multitude of different data storage solutions. As the hunger for data emerges in the organisation, there is a huge demand for data services. The paper introduces the solution of OTP Bank to flexibly scale the organisation in a way that meets the demand.