Senior analysts at a regional investment bank were building workflows in Excel, exporting data from multiple systems, stitching it together manually, and rebuilding everything from scratch when numbers changed. The deeper problem was auditability: when regulators asked how a figure was derived, the answer lived in a spreadsheet that might be impossible to reconstruct.
After adopting Aqua Data Studio, data preparation time dropped approximately 75%, IT dependency for ad hoc requests fell approximately 80%, and every regulatory submission became backed by a reproducible, auditable source query. This case study details how a regional investment bank replaced a fragmented workflow with one that holds up under regulatory scrutiny.
