Join this session to learn about the Labcorp data platform transformation from on-premises Hadoop to AWS Databricks Lakehouse. We will share best practices and lessons learned from cloud-native data platform selection, implementation, and migration from Hadoop (within six months) with Unity Catalog.

We will share steps taken to retire several legacy on-premises technologies and leverage Databricks native features like Spark streaming, workflows, job pools, cluster policies and Spark JDBC within Databricks platform. Lessons learned in Implementing Unity Catalog and building a security and governance model that scales across applications. We will show demos that walk you through batch frameworks, streaming frameworks, data compare tools used across several applications to improve data quality and speed of delivery.

Discover how we have improved operational efficiency, resiliency and reduced TCO, and how we scaled building workspaces and associated cloud infrastructure using Terraform provider.

Talk by: Mohan Kolli and Sreekanth Ratakonda

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ABN AMRO Bank is one of the top leading banks in the Netherlands. It is the third largest bank in the Netherlands by revenue and number of mortgages held within the Netherlands, and has top management support of the objective to become a fully data-driven bank. ABN AMRO started its data journey almost seven years ago and has built a data platform off-premises with Hadoop technologies. This data platform has been used by more than 200 data providers, 150 data consumers, and more than 3000 datasets.

To become a fully digital bank and address the limitation of the on-premises platform requires a future-proof data platform DIAL (digital integration and access layer). ABN AMRO decided to build an Azure cloud-native data platform with the help of Microsoft and Databricks. Last year this cloud-native platform was ready for our data providers and data consumers. Six months ago we started the journey of migrating all the content from the on-premises data platform to the Azure data platform, this was a very large-scale migration and was achieved in six months.

In this session, we will focus on three things: 1. The migration strategy going from on-premises to a cloud-native platform 2. Which Databricks solutions were used in the data platform 3. How the Databricks team assisted in the overall migration

Talk by: Rakesh Singh and Marcel Kramer

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With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — Akamai makes it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while keeping experiences closer to users and threats farther away. ​So when it was time to scale it’s legacy Hadoop-like infrastructure reaching its capacity limits, while keeping their global operations running uninterrupted, Akamai partnered with Microsoft and Databricks to migrate to Azure Databricks.

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Customers around the world are experiencing tremendous success migrating from legacy on-premises Hadoop architectures to a modern Databricks Lakehouse in the cloud. At Databricks, we have formulated a migration methodology that helps customers sail through this migration journey with ease. In this talk, we will touch upon some of the key elements that minimize risks and simplify the process of migrating to Databricks, and will walk through some of the customer journeys and use cases.

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While SAS has been a standard in analytics and data science use cases, it is not cloud-native and does not scale well. Join us to learn how AARP automated the conversion of hundreds of complex data processing, model scoring, and campaign workloads to Databricks using LeapLogic, an intelligent code transformation accelerator that can transform any and all legacy ETL, analytics, data warehouse and Hadoop to modern data platforms.

In this session experts from AARP and Impetus will share about collaborating with Databricks and how they were able to: • Automate modernization of SAS marketing analytics based on coding best practices • Establish a rich library of Spark and Python equivalent functions on Databricks with the same capabilities as SAS procedures, DATA step operations, macros, and functions • Leverage Databricks-native services like Delta Live Tables to implement waterfall techniques for campaign execution and simplify pipeline monitoring

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Swedbank is the largest bank in Sweden & third largest in Nordics. They have about 7-8M customers across retail, mortgage , and investment (pensions). One of the key drivers for the bank was to look at data across all silos and build analytics to drive their ML models - they couldn’t. That’s when Swedbank made a strategic decision to go to the cloud and make bets on Databricks, Immuta, and Azure.

-Enterprise analytics in cloud is an initiative to move Swedbanks on-premise Hadoop based data lake into the cloud to provide improved analytical capabilities at scale. The strategic goals of the “Analytics Data Lake” are: -Advanced analytics: Improve analytical capabilities in terms of functionality, reduce analytics time to market and better predictive modelling -A Catalyst for Sharing Data: Make data Visible, Accessible, Understandable, Linked, and Trusted Technical advancements: Future proof with ability to add new tools/libraries, support for 3rd party solutions for Deep Learning/AI

To achieve these goals, Swedbank had to migrate existing capabilities and application services to Azure Databricks & implement Immuta as its unified access control plane. A “data discovery” space was created for data scientists to be able to come & scan (new) data, develop, train & operationalise ML models. To meet these goals Swedbank requires dynamic and granular data access controls to both mitigate data exposure (due to compromised accounts, attackers monitoring a network, and other threats) while empowering users via self-service data discovery & analytics. Protection of sensitive data is key to enable Swedbank to support key financial services use cases.

The presentation will focus on this journey, calling out key technical challenges, learning & benefits observed.

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