Case Study: Swiss Re achieves faster analytics and lower processing costs with IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator

IBM IDAA DB2 analytics accelerator helps Swiss Re reach data workload and analytics goals

Swiss Re needed a way to handle 2.5 billion transactions and records while gaining insights from claims data spread across multiple international locations. The company wanted more flexibility and capacity to support growing data workloads and future analytics needs, and turned to IBM, using IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA) and IBM DB2 for z/OS.

IBM implemented a centralized analytics setup on IBM zEnterprise with DB2 for z/OS and IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator to speed query responses and reporting. The result was report generation that was 70% faster, improved internal user satisfaction, lower processing costs through workload offloading, and a transparent deployment that required no program modification.

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