Case Study: Anthem achieves a 75% reduction in database change and release times with DBmaestro

Database Automation Sparks Substantial Development Boost

Anthem, a Fortune 500 health insurer based in Indianapolis with about 63,900 employees and 16 Oracle environments, faced a growing database bottleneck as it moved to agile development. While teams adopted CI/CD tools for application code, database releases remained manual, causing code drift, missed or premature changes, failed releases, lengthy error remediation, and difficulty meeting strict HIPAA and stability requirements.

Anthem implemented DBmaestro’s DevOps for Databases platform to enforce check-in/check-out, integrate with Bitbucket, JIRA and Bamboo, generate and pre-check deployment scripts, and automate controlled promotions. The automation cut change and release times by 75%, reduced support time per change from ~4 hours to 1 hour, saved 30–60 hours weekly, yielded over $100,000 annual DBA savings per application, enabled reliable rollbacks, and gave easy object-history visibility.

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Tim McKean

Data Architect, Senior Advisor