[Encore] The Importance of a Single Source of Truth for Your Data with Mike Siswanto, Sr. Vice President at Northern Trust
Oct 17, 2023
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Mike Siswanto, Sr. Vice President at Northern Trust, explains how Snowflake can eliminate the noisy neighbor problem and provide a single source of truth for data. He discusses Northern Trust's role in asset management, challenges of bridging public and private data, anonymization of health data, and the parallel between real-time insights and golfing.
Utilizing a total portfolio view in Snowflake allows Northern Trust to have a consolidated, single source of truth for data, eliminating the noisy neighbor problem
Northern Trust's engagement with Snowflake and the development of Total Portfolio View (TPV) enables them to share investment book of records data with clients, facilitating better insights and analysis
Deep dives
The Focus of Northern Trust and its Differentiation
Northern Trust is a 130-year-old bank headquartered in Chicago and focuses on wealth management, asset management, and asset servicing. They cater to large institutional investors such as pension funds, endowments, family offices, and insurance companies. Northern Trust differentiates itself through its service, expertise, and technology. They have a unique approach where business leaders, subject matter experts, and tech leaders work together to enhance their Omnium platform, which is a real-time middle-back office platform. This collaboration and transparency set them apart from competitors.
The Role of Mike Siswanto and His Career Path
Mike Siswanto is the Senior Vice President and head of Omnium Asset Servicing Technology at Northern Trust. He leads a portfolio development team and holds a functional role as the chief architect. Mike started with delivery teams and gradually worked his way up to his current role. His hybrid nature allows him to effectively communicate with business executives and development teams, translating business requirements into technical solutions. His experience at Citadel, a large hedge fund, provided him with valuable management skills that he applies at Northern Trust.
Northern Trust's Adoption of Snowflake and DataCloud
Northern Trust engaged with Snowflake in early 2021 to address challenges faced by their clients with complex investment books. They developed a cloud-native platform called Total Portfolio View (TPV) that utilizes Snowflake as the consolidated single source of truth. Snowflake's data sharing capabilities enable Northern Trust to share their investment book of records data with clients, facilitating better insights and analysis. The TPV web application modules provide performance, exposure, risk, and compliance analytics in near-real time. Snowflake's features, such as ease of use, workload isolation, resiliency, and time travel, have been instrumental in supporting Northern Trust's data management and analytics needs.
In this episode, Mike Siswanto, Sr. Vice President at Northern Trust, explains how to eliminate the noisy neighbor problem by utilizing a total portfolio view in Snowflake, allowing for a consolidated, single source of truth for data.
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