One of our global insurance clients wanted to redesign their corporate reporting environment in order to improve data quality, reduce workload and achieve synergy among different reporting departments. At the core of our solution, there was an integrated data model for finance, risk and investments reporting, both regulatory and management. In order to integrate the data requirements and keep the possibility for each reporting team to evolve at their own pace, we suggested the implementation of a federated data model. This meant that each part of the data model could be managed by another business party, all while ensuring that the language and means of communication were synced at a global level.