Case Study: Major Financial Company achieves DevOps database integration and faster, higher-quality releases with Quest’s Toad and Toad DevOps Toolkit

Major financial firm advances DevOps with trusted database tools

A major U.S. investment and insurance firm (Fortune 500, ~15,000 employees) committed to Agile and DevOps but struggled to bring its critical, highly controlled databases into the pipeline. Database teams resisted losing hands‑on control, unit testing was time-consuming and non‑reusable, and manual database development couldn’t keep pace with application teams.

The company ran a year‑long proof of concept using Toad and the Toad DevOps Toolkit (including Code Tester, Code Analysis and Team Coding with Jenkins integration), created a reusable repository of PL/SQL tests, and delivered targeted training. The result: automated unit testing and code quality checks, higher-quality code, faster testing, and a pilot to extend DevOps practices to four applications with expected improvements in release velocity.