Challenge: A top five US bank analyzes its customer data to make portfolio decisions that will maximize their customers' wealth. The bank's large database contains more than five TB of customer information, representing five years of servicing history. Previously, this bank ran ad hoc queries against an Oracle database running on Sun with EMC storage. These complex queries would take three hours to run. Because the bank was running so many of these lengthy queries, results backed up and business users would often have to wait days for their reports, slowing down business. Additionally, the bank's existing data warehouse environment required three to four DBAs to manage the capacity.

Results with the Netezza data warehouse appliance: The NPS® data warehouse appliance was able to run the same queries in just 69 seconds, 167x faster! The NPS system's performance enables business users to get the results they need. Additionally, the bank anticipates that it will save over $1.6M in its first 12 months because of the lower cost of ownership (lower maintenance cost, minimal DBAs needed).