VTB switches to Russian business glossary

2024: Use of Arenadata Catalog

VTB is switching to the Russian business glossary by choosing the Arenadata Catalog (ADC) solution from the Russian vendor DataCatalog (part of the Arenadata Group). This was announced on October 18, 2024 by Svetlana Bova, Vice President, Managing Director of the IT Architecture Department of VTB Bank.

A business glossary is a key component of the system that data management bank ensures that their objects, their relationships with the data owner, data officer and other participants in the functional role model of data management, the connection of the term with the master system and technical metadata, the maintenance of a register of quality checks information and a register of contracts for the supply of data.

During migration, the used foreign business glossary on the basis Informatica Axon contained more than 37 thousand business terms, 12 thousand data quality checks and ensured the work of more than 50 thousand data consumers. Arenadata Catalog now provides a business glossary and easy-to-use information data search for users, which significantly reduces the time spent designing new processes in the bank and improves the quality of data use in new projects. integration Specialists (T1 AI T1 Holding) were involved in the Russian solution in VTB's IT landscape.

The main complexity of the project was to ensure the wide functionality of the solution to support mature data management processes implemented in the bank. Much attention was paid to improving the user experience as part of the joint work of a large number of VTB divisions, - said Ivan Novosyolov, General Director of DataCatalog.

The methodology of data management at VTB demanded to use all the capabilities of the Arenadata Catalog solution in order to maximize its potential for this software. A separate challenge was the need to ensure seamless integration into the bank's IT infrastructure, with which the team, thanks to well-coordinated work, successfully coped, setting up interaction with more than 10 information systems of the environment, - said Sergey Golitsyn, head of T1 AI at T1 Holding.