Case Studies in Brief - September 24, 2009

Contemporary apparel and consumer products manufacturer Guess?, Inc. selected the Vertica Analytic Database to help the rapidly growing company analyze dozens of terabytes of point-of-sale (POS), manufacturing, inventory, customer and store performance data in several global data centers. 

“Retail moves at lightning speed so we needed a high-performance analytics platform that could handle our fast-paced requirement for information,” said Mike Relich, CIO, Guess?, Inc. “After looking at several alternatives we selected Vertica because it simply delivers the answers the business needs in record time and at much lower cost than the other databases and appliances we evaluated.”

BCI, Chile’s third largest bank, selected the Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance to further advance its enterprise-wide business analytics initiative. BCI will use the appliance to support the bank’s marketing campaign management, compliance with risk requirements, sales management and budgeting. 

“The selection of the latest Teradata technology will enable BCI to continue innovating,” said Danilo Gonzalez, manager, information technology, BCI. “We have the capability to leverage customer, financial and operations data in new and strategic ways. The leveraging of data provides enterprise intelligence, which allows us to offer our customers premier financial products and services which meet their individual needs.” 

The Kitchen Collection, Inc., a leading specialty retailer for kitchenware, selected retail analytics product, ARC Merchandise Analytics.

Kitchen Collection was looking for a solution that would empower their merchandising and marketing teams with on-time, actionable information for decision-making and ARC Merchandise Analytics was a good fit.

Senior VP and General Merchandise Manager Bob Lebrun said, “We have to get smarter with our merchandising decisions to improve results and compete better in today¹s dynamic and challenging markets. We chose ARC Merchandise Analytics to arm our merchandisers and marketers with critical insights to improve profitability, reduce costs and boost customer demand.”

Kognitio today completed a large-scale, migration project for the UK Membership division of Bupa, the international health and care company. 

In the culmination of what is believed to be the largest data migration project in the insurance industry, taking four years, Kognitio worked with Bupa to successfully migrate the company’s data from nine legacy applications to two target applications in a “big bang” migration over a single weekend.  

The migration included information on almost 12.7 million members, nearly 100,000 companies and 21 million claims.  As a result of this migration project, Bupa now has a single administration system, SWIFT and the PeopleSoft financial accounting system across its UK Membership business.  This will enable Bupa to operate more efficiently, bring new products to market more quickly and offer improved levels of customer service.

Palm Beach County in the state of Florida will be expanding its use of Mimosa NearPoint beyond archiving its Microsoft Exchange Server data to provide comprehensive content archiving, data protection and eDiscovery support for its Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment. 

Ranked one of the top ten fastest growing counties in the nation, Palm Beach County originally selected Mimosa NearPoint following a pilot deployment of its archiving solution for email archiving. Since its initial deployment of NearPoint in 2007 for email archiving, the growing county has since chosen to expand its use of Mimosa NearPoint to archive and protect its rapidly growing SharePoint infrastructure. 

 “We have been exceptionally pleased with NearPoint’s ability to assure information retention, search and recovery for our critical Exchange information,” said Santhosh Samuel, server manager for Palm Beach County’s Information Support Services Department, “Now, as our SharePoint environment continues to grow, we saw a natural progression to extend our NearPoint solution to protect the volumes of data housed in our SharePoint system. NearPoint has proven that it can streamline all of our eDiscovery processes by easily producing public records required by the Florida Sunshine Law. It is a natural expansion of our solution to now deploy it to protect, retain and discover our SharePoint content.” 

Bridge Bank, a full-service professional business bank headquartered in the Silicon Valley, went live with SunGard’s Sierra, a solution for FX trading delivered on an application service provider basis.  

The solution was implemented to help Bridge Bank streamline operations in its growing international banking division, which provides the bank’s customers with foreign exchange, trade and global cash management services.  

"To compete in a shifting global market, we need to ensure that our IT infrastructure is as cost-effective and as operationally efficient as possible. Using SunGard Sierra’s ASP offering for our international banking business we are able to leverage proven, functionally rich technology.  As FX volumes and market volatility continue to grow, there is much more incentive to reduce trade processing costs - SunGard’s Sierra offers us a scalable, cost-effective solution that will grow with our business as and when required,” John Peckham, senior vice president and information systems manager at Bridge Bank, said.

Netezza Corporation and with Fuzzy Logix, Inc., a Netezza Developer Network partner announced today that Premier health care alliance, will use the power of Netezza’s OnStream Analytics processing via Fuzzy Logix’s DB Lytix, to speed up the delivery of health care knowledge to their affiliates nationwide. By exploiting the high performance analytics, Premier will empower their members to transform healthcare delivery while continuing to reduce healthcare costs.