Manulife Financial Corporation is a Canadian multinational insurance company and financial services provider headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The company operates in Canada and Asia as “Manulife” and in the United States primarily through its John Hancock Financial Division. Manulife is the largest insurance company in Canada and the 28th largest fund manager in the world based on worldwide institutional assets under management.

Manulife repositions its enterprise data lake strategy with Microsoft Azure.

At a glance

Solution

Data Management

Customer:

Manulife

Customer Size:

Corporation (34,000+ employees)

Industry:

Financial services

Location:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Website:

www.manulife.com

Focus areas:

Re-pipeline
Re-platform
Improved Analytics

Challenges:

Manulife needed to deploy 9 local instances across 3 Azure regions to support regional analytics for Japan, Hong Kong, China & Singapore whilst ensuring no business interruption in all geographies.

Solution:

Following a proof-of-concept (PoC) at Manulife’s headquarters in Canada, Cirata’s Data migration technology was chosen to support the Asia EDL migration. The PoC demonstrated that Data Migrator would meet all of Manulife’s requirements and address their data transfer challenges.

Results:

Data Migrator enabled Manulife to:

Migrate 300 TB of data across the geographies.
Provided rapid access to the Azure analytics platform for earlier insight gain.
Reduced expenditure on Hadoop infrastructure.

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