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Virtusa transforms a Middle East airline’s data governance landscape with Databricks Unity Catalog

The Challenge

The client, a major Middle Eastern airline company, was experiencing uncontrolled and siloed data sources that resulted in exponentially rising costs, loss of revenue, and missed business opportunities. They needed to boost their data management and enhance the following areas: 

  • Managing and overseeing specific datasets 
  • Breaking down data silos within organizations to enable cross-functional collaboration
  • Enhance data-sharing capabilities to overcome resistance and technical barriers
  • Ensure all stakeholders have the necessary understanding of data concepts and governance principles
The Solution

Virtusa implemented a unified governance solution landscape for the client using Databricks Unity Catalog:

  • Existing job upgrades
  • Unity Catalog assessment
  • Cluster upgrades
  • Table migrations
  • User, group, and service principal migrations
  • AI/ML model and dashboard migration
  • Deployment of Storage credentials and external locations
  • DBFS migration to Databricks volume
  • Enabling Unity Catalog for all workspaces
  • Enabling lineage in Unity Catalog
Transform data governance architecture with Databricks Unity Catalog
The Benefit

Post deployment, the client experienced streamlined data discovery, reduced duplication of efforts, and improved data accessibility, including:

Enhanced security by eliminating direct access to underlying data storage

Improved collaboration capabilities between stakeholders

Improved data quality and enhanced data governance

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