Download Case Study Macquarie Bank - Cards Integration Project

Case Study
Macquarie Bank - Cards Integration Project
Project Ebony will introduce a new white-label partner to the Macquarie Cards portfolio. Macquarie
Cards aims to acquire the existing Woolworths credit card portfolio (currently serviced by HSBC). Going
forward, Macquarie will partner with Woolworths to manufacture and distribute Woolworths-branded
card products with the aim to significantly grow the portfolio profitably. The existing Woolworths credit
card portfolio will be migrated from the HSBC credit cards platform to Macquarie’s credit card platform.
Why TL Consulting Group?
TL Consulting Group is a specialist in Data Warehousing and ETL solution delivery. TL has extensive
experience working on projects covering financial systems analysis, complex integration, and associated
database / core banking technologies. In this instance, we were able to rapidly uplift the Data
Warehousing solution delivery and testing capability for the Ebony Project. The environment footprint
included 250 thousand applications and 80 million transactions.
Key deliverables:
• Develop a robust and reliable new BFS Cards Data Warehousing solution
• Decommission old Data Warehousing solution, redirect the current Macquarie bank transactions
to new BFS Data Warehousing solution.
• Enable new BFS Data warehousing solution to accept Ebony card transactions
• Ensure operational extracts (e.g. Qantas) were originated from new BFS Cards DWH solution.
• Provide Analytical query capability (MBL specific) for MCS analytics users, Cards operation team
users and Fraud team members.
• Provide Analytical query capability (Ebony specific) for MCS analytics users, Cards operation
team users and Fraud team members.
• Migrate historical data from old Data warehouse to new BFS Cards Data Warehousing.
• Migrate historical data from HSBC / Woolworths Cards data to new BFS Cards DW solution.
Key Project Challenges:
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Aggressive project milestones. Transitioning from Waterfall to Agile methodology.
Gaps identified in functional and non-requirements.
Managing multiple Scope changes during lifetime of project.
Managing risk and dealing with multiple vendors as well as key stakeholder (both internal and
external)
Outcomes:
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Project delivered under budget by 10 %.
Data Migration successful from SQL Server to Oracle database platform.
Replacement of SQL Server platform to Oracle DWH (11g) platform (STAR Schema- Kimball).
Deliver uplifted reporting for SAS Analytics team.
Provide extract reports for external parties including Qantas/Jetstar.
Creation of new extract vendor Reports i.e. Woolworth Reports.
• Ebony Data warehouse milestones were met and the Client was very satisfied.
• New solution applied successfully, documented and transitioned to BAU team.