Case Study: Australian Pharmaceutical Industries achieves 400% disk usage reduction and automated archiving with Vision Solutions' Vision Data Manager

Australian Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (API) - Customer Case Study

Australian Pharmaceutical Industries (API), Australia’s largest pharmaceuticals distributor, runs a 24x7 Movex environment supporting 150+ Priceline stores and 4,000+ independent pharmacies. Rapid growth—nearly 30 GB of new data weekly—left API with one of the largest Movex databases in the world, creating unwieldy archiving, rising disk and backup costs, slower system response and challenges meeting five‑year financial retention and continuous‑availability requirements.

After a four‑day proof of concept, API deployed Vision Data Manager to implement modular, automated archiving that preserved mission‑critical data while freeing disk space and allowing maintenance with users online. The solution improved system response, cut ongoing programming and testing effort, and delivered major cost savings—reportedly reducing disk consumption by 400%—while enabling regulatory compliance and greater IT efficiency.

Australian Pharmaceutical Industries