Case Study: Norfolk Southern Corporation achieves up to 60x faster business intelligence with Oracle Exadata

Norfolk Southern Gets Business-Intelligence Query Results up to 60x Faster and Scales for Growth Using Simplified IT

Norfolk Southern Corporation, a leading North American transportation provider, needed to reduce slow business intelligence dashboard and report response times, expand analysis across multiple data sources, and lessen the load on its data warehouse while improving visualization and mobile access. The company used Oracle Exadata as part of its Oracle BI environment to support near-real-time operational decision-making and better scale for growth.

Oracle Exadata helped Norfolk Southern complete a proof of concept and then migrate from legacy systems to a more streamlined enterprise platform. The results included up to 60x faster BI query performance, 72% to 90% faster dashboards during testing, a 93% improvement for the damage prevention and freight claims group, 38% less stress on the data warehouse, and 10x better data compression, all while reducing IT complexity and improving user satisfaction.

Norfolk Southern Corporation

Mark Karuzis

Senior Technology Engineer – Business Intelligence Lead