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Freddie Mac's Data Transformation with Collibra: A One-Stop Shop for Data

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Technology Category	Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Applicable Industries	Consumer Goods Transportation
Applicable Functions	Product Research & Development Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Last Mile Delivery Visual Quality Detection
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Testing & Certification
Challenge	Freddie Mac, a leading mortgage loan company, was faced with the challenge of managing a colossal amount of data collected over the years. The data ecosystem was multi-generational, with Cobolt Mainframes, relational and star schema base data warehouses, data marts, and system-to-system integrations. The company also implemented Hadoop’s analytics platform for big data needs. This complex data ecosystem created complications for data consumers, making it overwhelming to locate the required data. The challenge was to transition to a self-governed cloud native data lake, making all data available in a single place, while ensuring security, resiliency, scalability, reliability, and availability. The business was heavily dependent on the seamless provision of this data for innovation, analytics, and predictive analysis. Read More
About Customer	Freddie Mac is a leading mortgage loan company with a mission to make home ownership possible for everyone. In 2019, they helped 480,000 first-time home buyers. The company collects and processes vast amounts of data to achieve its mission. Vikram Chopra, the Senior Manager, Single-Family, Data & Decisions at Freddie Mac, led the selection of Collibra to address their data governance and data stewardship needs. He now leads the enhancements and adoption of Collibra across all Freddie Mac divisions. More than 2,000 Freddie Mac data users have access to the business glossary on their computers and mobile devices. Read More
Solution	Freddie Mac turned to Collibra, a data governance and stewardship solution, to address their data challenges. The solution involved designing and implementing a modern cloud native ecosystem in three steps. First, they refreshed their data strategy to align with their divisional business objectives and the departmental mission of a cloud native data strategy. Next, they built the cloud onboarding solution with Collibra at the forefront. Finally, they added integrations where needed to ensure smooth and optimized data pipelines. Collibra was used to manage content data, provide data quality scorecards and metrics for data elements, and empower data users to find data quickly. They also integrated Collibra with their own data quality processes to measure the quality of data as it flowed into the lake. An intake workflow was designed and developed in Collibra to identify and classify data sets that needed to be provisioned in the cloud. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms

Applicable Industries

Consumer Goods

Transportation

Applicable Functions

Product Research & Development

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Last Mile Delivery

Visual Quality Detection

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Testing & Certification

Challenge

Freddie Mac, a leading mortgage loan company, was faced with the challenge of managing a colossal amount of data collected over the years. The data ecosystem was multi-generational, with Cobolt Mainframes, relational and star schema base data warehouses, data marts, and system-to-system integrations. The company also implemented Hadoop’s analytics platform for big data needs. This complex data ecosystem created complications for data consumers, making it overwhelming to locate the required data. The challenge was to transition to a self-governed cloud native data lake, making all data available in a single place, while ensuring security, resiliency, scalability, reliability, and availability. The business was heavily dependent on the seamless provision of this data for innovation, analytics, and predictive analysis.

About Customer

Freddie Mac is a leading mortgage loan company with a mission to make home ownership possible for everyone. In 2019, they helped 480,000 first-time home buyers. The company collects and processes vast amounts of data to achieve its mission. Vikram Chopra, the Senior Manager, Single-Family, Data & Decisions at Freddie Mac, led the selection of Collibra to address their data governance and data stewardship needs. He now leads the enhancements and adoption of Collibra across all Freddie Mac divisions. More than 2,000 Freddie Mac data users have access to the business glossary on their computers and mobile devices.

Solution

Freddie Mac turned to Collibra, a data governance and stewardship solution, to address their data challenges. The solution involved designing and implementing a modern cloud native ecosystem in three steps. First, they refreshed their data strategy to align with their divisional business objectives and the departmental mission of a cloud native data strategy. Next, they built the cloud onboarding solution with Collibra at the forefront. Finally, they added integrations where needed to ensure smooth and optimized data pipelines. Collibra was used to manage content data, provide data quality scorecards and metrics for data elements, and empower data users to find data quickly. They also integrated Collibra with their own data quality processes to measure the quality of data as it flowed into the lake. An intake workflow was designed and developed in Collibra to identify and classify data sets that needed to be provisioned in the cloud.

Impact #1	With the implementation of Collibra, Freddie Mac has seen significant improvements in their data management. The collaboration within and across different teams has improved after the implementation of the single-family business glossary. The transformation has changed how they think of data at Freddie Mac, with data users now able to get an integrated business view of their technical metadata, data quality, data movement controls, and all business metadata in a single central universal platform. The new centralized infrastructure has strategically empowered the business by increasing data consistency, availability, and sustainability across the enterprise. They are developing new business capabilities with the innovations possible with a modern, agile delivery approach. By leveraging Collibra, they are accelerating the simplification of their data ecosystem, with a focus on business.

Impact #1

With the implementation of Collibra, Freddie Mac has seen significant improvements in their data management. The collaboration within and across different teams has improved after the implementation of the single-family business glossary. The transformation has changed how they think of data at Freddie Mac, with data users now able to get an integrated business view of their technical metadata, data quality, data movement controls, and all business metadata in a single central universal platform. The new centralized infrastructure has strategically empowered the business by increasing data consistency, availability, and sustainability across the enterprise. They are developing new business capabilities with the innovations possible with a modern, agile delivery approach. By leveraging Collibra, they are accelerating the simplification of their data ecosystem, with a focus on business.

Benefit #1	More than 2,000 Freddie Mac data users now have access to the business glossary on their computers and mobile devices.
Benefit #2	Freddie Mac has been able to accelerate the transformation to their new data information platform.
Benefit #3	Freddie Mac has strengthened the business culture on the idea that data is a product, with value that the data information platform can deliver.

Benefit #1

More than 2,000 Freddie Mac data users now have access to the business glossary on their computers and mobile devices.

Benefit #2

Freddie Mac has been able to accelerate the transformation to their new data information platform.

Benefit #3

Freddie Mac has strengthened the business culture on the idea that data is a product, with value that the data information platform can deliver.

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Freddie Mac's Data Transformation with Collibra: A One-Stop Shop for Data

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