Technical Story
Manulife is in the business of predicting the future. The company analyzes terabytes of data to create complex models of risk for its financial services and insurance businesses. As part of a global digital initiative and a company-wide data migration effort, Manulife consolidated its data silos and moved its models to Azure, creating a single source of high-quality data in Azure SQL Database. Massive modeling calculations that used to take a week now run in a day or two on Azure, which has replaced a multitude of underutilized servers. In embracing Azure, Manulife changed its infrastructure-focused mindset to a cloud-first approach and, along the way, saved approximately 40 percent in hardware and labor costs in the past three years.
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