Case Study: American Tire Distributors achieves faster Oracle performance and streamlined operations with Solix Technologies' database archiving

ATD gets better insight and performance with smart data archiving

American Tire Distributors (ATD), a fast-growing tire and parts wholesaler based in Huntersville, NC, was struggling with exploding operational data from rapid acquisitions, a 40,000-SKU catalog, and an expanding Oracle E-Business Suite environment. The company’s Oracle databases ballooned to about 3 TB, causing long backups and clones (20 hours and up to 4 days), nightly batch jobs spilling into the workday, degraded application performance, and a risky hardware migration.

ATD implemented Solix Enterprise Database Archiving alongside a hardware refresh, archiving multiple Oracle modules to keep recent data active while preserving older records. The archive reduced the production database by about 25% (40% expected after more modules), cut migration time to roughly 40 hours (vs. 60+), improved nightly batch performance by 50–60%, shortened cloning to ~1.5 days, and slashed specific merge processing from seven hours to one minute after tuning—while improving disaster recovery, testing, and readiness for future Oracle upgrades.

American Tire Distributors

Tony Vaden

CIO