Case Study: China PnR achieves millions in cost savings and 422% ROI with the Vertica Analytics Platform

China PnR - Customer Case Study

China PnR is a Shanghai-based financial services company founded in 2006 that processed over two trillion yuan in transactions in 2016. As the business scaled, its Oracle-based analytics platform became prohibitively expensive and too slow—queries took up to an hour, daily data loads up to 10 hours, the single-node architecture caused lengthy outages, R integration was poor, and vendor support was slow—jeopardizing growth plans.

After a 2013 proof-of-concept, China PnR deployed the Vertica Analytics Platform (went live early 2014). Vertica cut query times to under a minute and load times to about an hour, improved platform stability with distributed nodes, and provided faster local support. The switch avoided large legacy upgrade costs, saved millions in hardware and software, and delivered a 422% ROI with a 0.2‑year payback and roughly $1.9M in average annual benefit.

China PnR

Joe Mathias

Analyst