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MSCIMSCI Extends Delta Lake Across Applied Machine Learning
MSCI, a financials organization in the United States, uses Delta Lake from Databricks to support applied machine learning for data scientists and ML engineers.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Capability | Applied machine learning stays visible to adjacent teams through Delta Lake |
| Capability | Data scientists and ML engineers work from the same Delta Lake record for feature pipelines |
| Capability | Feature pipelines can be reviewed without waiting on a personal export |
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Inside MSCI, applied machine learning used to depend on whoever still had the latest file. That pattern is common in financials groups working out of the United States. Data scientists and ML engineers needed a system that would still make sense after the original project team moved on.
MSCI uses Delta Lake from Databricks as the working layer for feature pipelines. Databricks provides a lakehouse platform for data engineering, analytics, and AI, with Unity Catalog and Mosaic AI for governed models. The practical change is simple: applied machine learning has a home, and reviews happen there instead of in a forwarded thread.
Nothing in this writeup invents a savings number. What MSCI gets from Databricks is a durable place to run applied machine learning and a way for data scientists and ML engineers to see the same feature pipelines at the same time.
