Momentum™ case study

How can a performant database impact your business? It can make a tremendous difference. Let’s take an example of our recent customer.

This high-tech manufacturing corporation runs its factory in constant 24/7 operations. When everything works perfectly, the factory line can produce $1M-worth of product in every few hours. However, any issue on the production floor can have incremental consequences. Malfunctioning devices or defective materials, if not spotted immediately, can result in erroneous assembly of an entire batch, causing a loss of thousands in one shot. Every minute of delay allows unspotted issues to propagate, therefore it is extremely important to react swiftly.

The corporation's managers use information tools to make such urgent decisions, including periodic Business Intelligence reports coming from Oracle and MSSQL engines. Those databases constantly collect, transform and aggregate data from the production line. However, a manager could, at best, review 30-minute-old data, while overall statistics were only visible after 24 hours.

GridwiseTech applied its methodology and software to transform the system with a modern, scalable architecture. The result: now the customer can work with near-real-time data. We systematically removed the old database bottlenecks. Because of this, report generation happens instantly. Decisions that were only possible once per day can now be made in real time. A manager is only seconds away from the situation which needs his or her attention. The number of production failures will drop radically.

Based on this real-life example, let us examine its effect on our customer’s business.

Direct savings resulting from faster reaction time: five-digit savings per day; or seven-digit per year.
Earnings: new architecture makes it possible to double production without additional IT investments.
Indirect cost reduction: less hardware; simpler maintenance; reduced amount in capital expenditure, electricity and headcount
Business continuity: redundant architecture ensures that local IT problems will not impact business
Scale-out potential: multiple applications and data are integrated in one platform
Do more with less: generate complex reports and gain deeper insight with business intelligence tools.