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bank99 & Exasol
From 6 Hours to 10 Minutes
bank99 accelerates data availability with Exasol and enables real-time reporting
Executive Summary
Founded in 2020, bank99 AG employs around 350 people and operates almost 1,800 branches across Austria as a subsidiary of Österreichische Post AG. Together with Exasol partner Sphinx IT Consulting, bank99 has consolidated its IT landscape into a powerful analytics platform based on Exasol and Sphinx IT Consulting’s RED framework.
The daily load time for previous-day data has been reduced from 6 hours to less than 10 minutes. This lays the foundation for a sophisticated self-service BI concept with real-time reporting, which bank99 is currently implementing. Overall, decision-making has already improved significantly, delivering important competitive advantages.
50x faster data availability
Real-time reporting instead of overnight loading cycles
Future-proof architecture in the Azure Cloud
Greater transparency and improved decision quality
Historical data analysis for traceability, compliance, and advanced trend insights
Company Profile
bank99 AG was founded in 2020 as a subsidiary of Österreichische Post AG. With around 350 employees, the bank operates a nationwide sales network of nearly 1,800 branches and postal partners across Austria.
bank99 provides around 300,000 private customers with a comprehensive portfolio of financial services – from account management and payments to consumer loans, investments, savings products, mortgage financing, and insurance. At the same time, the bank is steadily expanding its corporate customer portfolio with the long-term vision of becoming an innovative, digital universal bank.
Location
Vienna
Employees
350
Industry
Finance
Product
Analytics Engine
The Challenge
bank99’s history was shaped by the merger of two legacy banking systems – one for retail and one for business customers. The resulting heterogeneous IT landscape relied on a mix of SAS, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server.
This created several critical challenges:
- Excessive load times: Daily data loading took up to 6 hours, causing major delays in availability.
- Limited timeliness of analytics: Management and business teams had to work with previous-day data.
- Restricted self-service capability: Independent analytics were hardly possible due to complexity and performance issues.
- Rising digitalization pressure: bank99 wanted to modernize its processes to secure competitive advantages.
The Solution
Together with Exasol partner Sphinx IT Consulting, bank99 embarked on an ambitious transformation project:
- Consolidation of its IT landscape (SAS, Oracle DB, and Microsoft SQL Server “data lake”)
- Introduction of Exasol as a high-performance, scalable data warehouse
- Implementation of the RED framework—metadata-driven ELT framework as the foundation for a central BI and reporting solution
- Integration of all relevant data sources into a unified architecture
- Development of a modern analytics platform in Microsoft Azure Cloud
Within just 12 months, the new platform was designed, implemented, and put into production. The goals: simplify data processes, enable self-service BI, and establish the foundation for real-time analytics.
RED-Framework
The RED framework is a metadata-based automation layer (“DWH as Code”) that dramatically accelerates data warehousing development by automating core tasks such as source integration, data historization based on source-system metadata, creation of semantic layers, and implementation of fine-grained security.
By simplifying technical complexity, RED enables rapid prototyping and iterative delivery of a complete data warehouse and reporting environment while minimizing operational overhead.
The Results
The migration to Exasol delivered immediate, measurable success:
50x faster data availability
Daily data loads shrank from up to 6 hours to only 6–10 minutes.
Near real-time reporting
Business departments and management teams can now access fresh data at any time, without waiting for overnight cycles.
Greater competitiveness
The combination of real-time reporting and rapid implementation of new requirements boosts the company’s agility.
Historization for reproducible analytics
Automated historization of all raw data and KPIs enables traceability, improved compliance, and sound decision-making. It also forms the foundation for predictive analytics, credit scoring, and fraud detection – trained and continuously optimized on validated historical data.
Regulatory compliance and reporting
The consolidated data warehouse strengthens compliance with DORA, BCBS 239, and GDPR. Automated historization ensures traceable, accurate submissions and simplifies audits.
“The great advantage of our new solution is the availability of up-to-date data in our BI tool. This is only possible thanks to Exasol’s enormous speed. It enables faster, easier, and better decisions across management and business units.„
– Günther Balatka, bank99
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