Case Study: Colt Technology Services reduces development cycles by 75% with Delphix

City Index reduces Development Cycles by 75%

City Index, a global leader in spread betting and CFD trading founded in 1983, faced slow development cycles because provisioning up-to-date production data was time-consuming and manual. Restoring production database copies could take up to four hours, forcing heavy coordination across teams, slowing testing and delivery, and limiting innovation.

After a three-month proof of concept, City Index implemented the Delphix Virtual Data Platform to virtualize and deliver data on demand; rollout completed in one month. Developers now provision data via self-service (30+ users), database copies drop from four hours to three minutes, development cycles are down 75% and business output is up 20%—for example, a complex archiving project moved from six months to six weeks—and shared QA infrastructure was removed, cutting costs.

Colt Technology Services

Toby Young

SCTO, City Index