Case Study: Unionlife Insurance Co., Ltd. achieves 50% cost reduction and 10x faster customer analytics with Oracle Exadata Database Machine

Unionlife Insurance Reduces Costs by 50% with Oracle Engineered Systems

UnionLife Insurance Co., Ltd., a leading Chinese insurer serving 14 million customers, faced explosive digital growth—recording US$70 million in sales from 20,000 mobile policies in three days—and needed to support multi-channel sales, speed up online transactions and executive analytics, and cut rising IT costs and complexity across disparate servers and storage.

UnionLife consolidated core and seven supplementary databases onto Oracle Exadata (with Partitioning, RAC, Platinum Services and Advanced Customer Support), completing the migration in four months. The engineered system doubled OLTP response times, sped analytic reporting by 10x, supported daily workloads using only ~10% CPU, and delivered a 50% reduction in total cost of ownership (including a US$60,000 annual power saving) while ensuring high availability and faster service delivery.

Unionlife Insurance Co., Ltd.

Chen Tao

Project Manager