Case Study: Daman speeds business insight and improves agility with Microsoft SQL Server 2016

Daman speeds business insight by 5X and improves agility by migrating from Sybase IQ to SQL Server 2016

Daman, a national health insurance company in the United Arab Emirates, faced challenges with a slow and inflexible Sybase IQ data warehouse. Its performance issues, with weekly reports taking 28 hours to run, impeded business efficiency and the ability to gain timely insights from their 3TB of data. Daman partnered with Microsoft Corporation to find a new solution.

By migrating to Microsoft SQL Server 2016 with Columnstore indexes, Daman accelerated query performance dramatically. Microsoft's solution sped up monthly reporting by 5 times, from 48 hours down to 10 hours, and improved data compression by 85%. This provided faster business insight, enhanced security integration with Active Directory, and saved over $250,000 in software costs, enabling better service and fraud detection.

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Peter Bauer

Chief Information Officer