ETL processes include extracting data from a source dataset, transforming it in a particular way, and loading the resulting data into a target dataset. This is a very important process in terms of databases’ performance. Learn the ETL best practices on DB Best’s blog.
A leading provider of content services for the legal industry looked to DB Best to help them modernize their aging Sybase ASE and IQ solutions that were built on top of an old IBM AIX system. We helped our customer in the past with a Sybase ASE migration. The challenge for this project — migrate Sybase Java applications along with the associated Sybase ASE and IQ database solutions to SQL Server running on AWS EC2. In this video blog post, we’ll […]
One of the world’s largest distributors of non-food consumable products wanted to rationalize their data platform and business intelligence strategy. Their current IBM DB2 database system lacked repository to host historical audit related data, so they could hardly retrieve data from past years. Then we came up with an Azure cloud database solution that could store all the historical data and created Power BI reports on top of it. We performed the IBM DB2 Azure SQL Database migration as a […]
Our customer needed to reduce the licensing costs of their Oracle database. We came up with a comprehensive solution by migrating their database to SQL Server platform. We also remediated all affected application components. As a result, our customer benefited from obtaining higher value SQL Server platform with enhanced scalability and high availability approaches.
Our customer has been supporting Oracle based online transaction processing (OLTP) system. They decided to take advantage of the modern data analysis capabilities of SQL Server’s data warehouse features including columnstore for greater value over an Oracle based data warehouse solution. We came up with a comprehensive solution on extracting and transforming their source data and loading it into the target database. As a result, our customer benefited from obtaining a highly standardized and easily manageable solution within a short […]
One of the leading independent software vendors in educational domain needed to expand their original Oracle database system. They wanted to add a new PostgreSQL database running on AWS RDS to their original system and upgrade the connected Java application to support both database platforms. We came up with a proof of concept and converted one of the largest customer’s database schemas to PostgreSQL, demonstrating how the upgraded system might work. To do so, we updated the application by adding […]
One of the largest North American agricultural enterprises has been envisioning and designing a new cloud-based Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing architecture. They were using a fragmented system, based on Oracle database, while the reports were presented as a mix of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and Excel dashboards. We came up with a solution that allowed to consolidate all reports with Power BI dashboards. In addition, we proposed to migrate the original database to Azure Synapse Analytics (previously Azure […]
One of the largest life insurance companies in the United States supported a reporting application. Their system included Java based web app and Informatica data management solution connected to DB2 database. To provide a web interface for reporting needs they employed a WebSphere server for hosting Java application. With this interface, a small circle of users could create reports using data imported from Informatica application. Our customer wanted to reduce the maintenance costs and increase the application functionality. We came up with […]
One of the leading US healthcare organizations needed to upgrade their health record system in an effort to drive down costs while enabling new capabilities. We proposed to migrate the Oracle database to SQL Server to build a scalable and secure architecture. We faced a number of Oracle to SQL Server migration challenges, including the huge volume of data along with very large tables aggregated in the original database. As a result, the customer got the modern, secure, platform while saving […]
When a company grows, it’s no surprise that their database stored data grows as well. This is the case for all companies, and our customer, a global retailer in the beauty industry, was no exception. While working on this project, we managed to increase the average speed of query execution by 30x, saved up to 190 GB of memory and freed up 28 GB of disk storage space. Prior to these great results, there was a hard optimization process performed […]
DB Best recently completed a complex development project for one of the largest banks in the Middle East. Faced with non-customizable and slow-to-generate reporting, the customer contacted DB Best to develop a new and improved solution. The customer’s original system was built on two SQL Server Analysis Services systems, each containing large amounts of various aggregated data types with Excel workbooks directly accessing the two SSAS cubes. Not only did this system take a considerable amount of time to generate […]