Case Study: IDS GmbH — Analysis and Reporting Services achieves 4x data-warehouse performance and lowers total cost of ownership with Oracle Exadata

IDS GmbH – Analysis and Reporting Services Lowers Total Cost of Ownership and Quadruples Performance of Central Data Warehouse System

IDS GmbH — Analysis and Reporting Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Allianz, provides managed data-management, risk-control and reporting services for global investment and insurance operations. Faced with integrating performance and risk analyses from more than 350 source systems (including data from 10,000+ portfolios), IDS needed to run overnight batch jobs and frequent ad hoc queries within tight windows, publish timely financial and risk reports, and scale storage cost‑effectively as data volumes surged.

Working with Oracle and partner ISE, IDS replaced its legacy warehouse with Oracle Exadata (plus storage expansion racks) without redesigning code, migrating ~10 TB of production data in a day. The new platform quadrupled database performance, enabled daily reporting instead of monthly, tripled storage capacity to ~150 TB while reducing total cost of ownership by roughly 30–35%, cut backup times by ~70%, and provided fast access for 1,500+ users to meet SLAs and accelerate financial decision‑making.

IDS GmbH - Analysis and Reporting Services

Holger Haun

Managing Director