Ultimate Finance

Boosting data accuracy and decision-making with a modern data warehouse

Built a new enterprise data warehouse and reporting layer

Introduced Power BI to replace legacy tools and reduce cost

Significantly improved data quality across operational systems

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the challenge

Ultimate Finance, a leading UK SME lender, needed to:

  • Migrate legacy data into a new, scalable data warehouse
  • Improve data accuracy and streamline reporting processes
  • Gain deeper insights from years of accumulated customer and financial data
  • Replace outdated BI tools and enable better self-serve analytics

The business wanted a partner to modernise their data environment, support more effective decision-making, and improve the overall confidence in their data.

data services

Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Data Architecture, Data Quality Management

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the solution

Dufrain delivered a straightforward and highly effective programme to transform the client’s data ecosystem:

  • Assessed the scalability of their current platform to plan the new warehouse
  • Designed and built a bespoke data store using Microsoft technologies (SSIS, Azure)
  • Built a fully functioning reporting and analysis layer to simplify reporting
  • Introduced a Data Quality assurance process to surface inconsistencies for remediation
  • Guided the team on governance and conformity across operational systems
  • Reviewed existing data visualisation tools and recommended modernisation via Power BI
  • Implemented advanced optimisation techniques to improve data processing speed and efficiency in a financial services context

the outcome

  • A new single source of truth for all MI and BI across the business
  • Significant improvement in data quality and confidence
  • More time for insight-led analysis and exploration
  • Reduced manual effort in producing reports, enabling tracking and performance improvement
  • Reallocation of two staff members to more strategic projects
  • Simplified, self-service analytics environment now supports daily decision-making
  • Power BI successfully rolled out, retiring legacy BI tools and lowering costs
  • Offshore teams can easily maintain the system thanks to clear documentation and design

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Victoria Whittacker - Head of Business Development
Victoria Whittaker

Head of Business Development

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