Case Study: Alberta Blue Cross modernizes IT and cuts database refreshes from days to minutes with Delphix

Alberta Blue Cross Modernizes Critical IT Systems with Delphix

Alberta Blue Cross, Alberta’s largest benefits carrier serving 1.6 million people, needed to rebuild its core Administration application because legacy systems and sprawling physical databases were driving up costs and slowing development. Database refreshes took one to two days and a complex data conversion put go‑live at risk, so the organization selected Delphix to remove data bottlenecks and accelerate testing and development.

Delphix virtualized the five core databases and provisioned on‑demand data across up to 18 environments with more than 70 virtual databases, automating nightly full refreshes and enabling rewindable test states. Refresh times dropped from days to minutes, data conversion scripts were reliably validated, cutover rehearsals and troubleshooting environments smoothed go‑live, and Alberta Blue Cross reached steady‑state operations within three months.

Alberta Blue Cross

David W. Miller

VP & CIO