Nationwide Building Society chooses Progress DataDirect to maximize
value from its business-critical analytics system; connecting SQL data
on Windows servers
BRACKNELL, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Progress
(NASDAQ: PRGS) today announced that Nationwide Building Society has
selected the Progress® DataDirect® product to provide a critical link to
its SQL databases and keep its analytics apps running seamlessly. With
Progress, Nationwide improved month end process by 50 percent.
For Nationwide Building Society, the UK's second largest provider of
household savings, and, a top three provider of mortgages, the analytics
system is critical to keep the business running smoothly. With more than
300 developers working on the system and a large number of departments
across the organization depending on the data it produces to complete
their daily tasks, the analytics system must be highly available.
However, system monitoring in 2013 showed that the growth of the Society
and the demands of regulators and management for more sophisticated,
faster analysis, could not be accommodated on the existing system for
the long term. That system had limits to its scalability, particularly
the input/output throughput.
"We had problems connecting to our SQL data on Windows servers," said
Paul Matthews, Head of Transformation, Nationwide Building Society. "It
was a complex link that presented tremendous technical issues. We needed
standard, and most crucially, supported software to resolve the problem.
Through its partnership with SAS, Nationwide was able to leverage the
Progress DataDirect product and now has a reliable, secure, supported
approach to access Windows SQL databases from SAS 9.4 Grid Servers
running under Unix. On the new system, average jobs are running in 25
percent of the time they used to and there are significantly more
sophisticated analytic tools, system monitors and controls available.
"We are getting our month-end processes done in five days instead of
10," added Matthews. "And we have not experienced any unexpected
reliability issues with the Progress DataDirect product, which is
especially important in this business-critical environment."
The Progress DataDirect suite of data connectivity tools offers a unique
data connectivity solution for businesses needing to better manage and
integrate data across relational, Big Data and cloud data sources. It
provides proven, high-performance connectivity despite demanding data
migration, integration and management scenarios.
"Due to the nature of their business, financial organizations place
intense pressures on their IT departments. With highly visible corporate
brands and a need to establish trust with the public, they face numerous
security threats and operational challenges that can undermine
reputations and alienate clients," said Mark Armstrong, Vice President
and Managing Director EMEA at Progress. "The rich data sets that power
the industry are both essential and vulnerable. Progress DataDirect is
the only data connectivity suite capable of supporting the significant
needs of the financial services sector, with connectors for any data
source and a proven track record of success."
For more information about Progress DataDirect, click
here.
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Progress (NASDAQ:
PRGS) is a global software company that simplifies the development,
deployment and management of business applications on-premise or in the
cloud, on any platform or device, to any data source, with enhanced
performance, minimal IT complexity and low total cost of ownership.
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