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 a new technological challenge that shapes 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 Fernández, CTO of Informa D&B, will explain its data strategy for the next decade, and how LeanXcale will help to make it real.

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

• The Informa IT strategy:
  • What is Informa
  • How to remain leaders in the next 10 years?
  • The Marketing Database 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.

Informa has been present in Portugal for more than 115 years. The information provided by Informa is used by the 95% of Portuguese banking companies, 45% of corporates, and 21% of SMEs.

Carlos Fernández holds a Superior Degree in Physics and a MBA from “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, member of XBRL CRAS (Credit Risk Services), and member of the Alcobendas City Council’s Open Data Advisory Board.

Furthermore, he is former member of various boards: GREFIS (Financial Information Services Group of Experts), ASNEF Logalty, ASFAC Logalty and CTI.

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.