Case Study: Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company achieves 50% reduction in patching, provisioning, and code-deployment time with Oracle Enterprise Manager (Oracle)

Nationwide Mutual Insurance Uses Automation to Halve Time for Patching, Provisioning, and Code Deployments

Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, a Fortune 100 insurer with about 30,000 employees and more than $158 billion in assets, needed to cut manual, time-consuming administrative work for patching, provisioning, and code deployments across its finance, insurance, and third‑party applications. The goal was to improve efficiency without adding IT headcount and to free staff to focus on business priorities and customer needs.

Nationwide implemented Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c to automate provisioning, patching, and deployments, reducing new database environment deployment time from 15 hours to 40 minutes and cutting gold‑copy provisioning from 45 to 20 minutes. Security patching went from 2–3 hours to about 30 minutes, freeing the equivalent of 1.5 full‑time employees, improving customer service, and enabling IT to focus on performance tuning, strategic programs, and capacity planning.

Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company

Heath Carfrey

Infrastructure Database Manager