Case Study: Symphony Health Solutions achieves 27x faster batch processing and 500 concurrent jobs with Oracle Exadata

Symphony Health Solutions Runs 500 Concurrent Batch Jobs up to 27x Faster Delays Additional IT Investment

Symphony Health Solutions, a Phoenix-based life‑sciences research firm formed from four merged organizations, provides market analysis and custom primary research for pharmaceutical and biotech clients using an in-house panel of 125,000+ clinicians. The company faced a rapidly growing single data warehouse (now totaling multiple petabytes), the need to run hundreds of concurrent real‑time queries and batch jobs without performance degradation, and pressure to reduce IT complexity and scale cost‑effectively.

Symphony standardized on Oracle Exadata (with Active Data Guard, Oracle Linux, and Enterprise Manager) and consolidated 12 servers onto Exadata half racks with storage expansion, creating a 600 TB operational store and 400 TB data warehouse. The platform enabled up to 500 concurrent batch jobs, batch processing up to 27x faster, daily archiving of 5 TB with no performance impact, 5x compression, and the ability to absorb a fourfold data increase—delaying additional IT investment while improving availability and manageability.

Symphony Health Solutions

Scott Anders

Director, Database Systems