Overview
Lloyd’s List Intelligence is a world-leading provider of data and analytics for a highly complex global industry. Its intelligence underpins critical decisions made by governments, insurers, and financial institutions, where accuracy, traceability, and confidence in data are essential. As data volumes and complexity increased, the organisation required a more intelligent, transparent, and controllable platform to support its analysts and customers.
Challenge
The platform ingested data from thousands of global sources, many of which produced conflicting values for the same metrics.
Key challenges included:
- Limited visibility into how data was processed and prioritised
- Manual resolution of data conflicts by analysts
- No clear, auditable mechanism to explain why one data point was selected over another
- Slower decision-making and increased risk of inconsistency in a high-stakes environment
This manual, opaque process constrained speed, trust, and scalability.
Solution
D55 designed and delivered a new intelligent data ingestion platform focused on transparency, automation, and analyst control.
Key elements included:
- A rules-driven processing engine configurable by analysts via a user interface, removing dependency on developers
- Automated data-source weighting, enabling the system to resolve conflicts based on predefined priorities
- A full audit trail capturing source weightings, processing logic, and automated decisions
- Complete visibility into how every data point was selected and processed
This shifted data governance from a manual, reactive process to a transparent, automated, and explainable system.
The Outcome
The new platform delivers the trust and confidence required in a high-stakes data environment.
- Full traceability: Every data point is traceable back to its source, with a clear audit log of all automated decisions
- Improved data quality: Less manual intervention and higher-quality output from the first pass
- Empowered analysts: Teams moved from reactive data reconciliation to proactive analysis with full visibility and confidence in the platform
The organisation now operates with greater speed, consistency, and assurance in its data-driven decisions.
Looking Forward
With the new platform in place, Lloyd’s List Intelligence has a strong foundation to further enhance automation, intelligence, and scalability. The architecture enables continued evolution of data processing rules and supports future innovation as data volumes and complexity continue to grow.
Why D55?
- Deep expertise in building complex, event-driven data platforms at scale
- A collaborative approach that empowers client teams with control and visibility
- A pragmatic delivery mindset focused on high-value outcomes delivered at pace
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