Case Study: California Insurance Guarantee Association achieves faster data refreshes, reduced storage and 194% ROI with Delphix

California Insurance Guarantee Association - Customer Case Study

California Insurance Guarantee Association (CIGA) is the state-backed organization that pays covered claims when member insurers become insolvent and must be able to begin resolving insolvencies within 45 days. CIGA faced slow, costly data refreshes (up to 24 hours per refresh), rising storage and hosting costs, an imminent datacenter migration, and a small IT team stretched thin — to the point of needing a second DBA — all of which threatened its ability to provide timely claims service and support testing and reporting needs.

CIGA deployed Delphix as its enterprise data management platform (implemented in four months), enabling virtualized, self‑provisioned database refreshes so developers could run their own extracts and work in parallel. The result: DBA effort for developer support fell from 75% to 15%, the need for an extra DBA was eliminated, storage for refreshes dropped from an expected 12 TB to 2 TB (≈ $10K/year savings), and financials showed a 194% annual ROI, six‑month payback, and roughly $294,555 average annual benefit (cost:benefit 1:4.6).

California Insurance Guarantee Association

Feroz Merchhiya

CTO, CIGA