Case Study: AAH Pharmaceuticals Ltd. achieves dramatic performance gains and rapid ROI with Actian Ingres database

For AAH Pharmaceuticals, Ingres is the key to a healthy business

AAH Pharmaceuticals Ltd., the UK’s leading distributor of pharmaceutical and healthcare products with over 4,000 employees, 19 distribution warehouses and millions of daily deliveries, faced the twin challenges of supporting large-scale logistics and remaining agile in a highly regulated, fast-changing market. The company needed an enterprise-class, scalable IT platform that could keep every link in its supply chain and business applications performing optimally while integrating with legacy systems.

AAH migrated its core systems to Actian Ingres running on Linux, gaining a fast-to-deploy, reliable database platform that now powers stock, sales, invoicing and master data systems. The move delivered dramatic performance improvements (some queries cut from five hours to under 20 minutes), seamless legacy integration, rapid ROI (costs recovered in under three years) and has been extended to additional warehouse, supply chain and customer-facing systems.

AAH Pharmaceuticals Ltd.

Richard David

Senior DB Administrator