Case Study: Nationwide achieves reliable, scalable analytics with Progress Software DataDirect

Progress Keeps Analytics Apps Up and Running at Nationwide

Nationwide, one of the UK’s largest building societies, relied on a business-critical analytics system used across fraud, marketing, risk, capital management, and data modeling. As usage and regulatory demands grew, the existing Windows-based environment could no longer scale or deliver the needed input/output performance, creating a challenge for Nationwide’s move to SAS 9.4 Grid on Unix.

Progress Software, using Progress DataDirect, supplied up-to-date drivers and support to resolve complex SQL database connectivity issues during the migration. The solution went live with reliable, supported access to Windows SQL databases from SAS Grid servers, helping Nationwide cut average job times to 25% of the previous duration and reduce month-end processing from ten days to five, with no unexpected reliability issues.

Nationwide

Paul Matthews

Head of Transformation