Case Study
Volkswagen Financial Services AG, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Volkswagen AG based in Braunschweig, Germany, is Europe's largest provider of automobile-related financial services. It offers customers a broad range of financial services, including customized financing and leasing solutions as well as insurance packages and direct banking. The company has more than 5,000 employees worldwide, 3,600 of these in Germany.
Like many companies in the financial services industry, Volkswagen Financial Services AG has been faced with rapid growth in data relating to loan contracts, direct banking, bank and credit card accounts, leasing agreements and insurance policies — all stored and managed in SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0. According to Adrian Bourcevet, Project Manager with the Volkswagen Financial Services AG's IT department, the implementation of a Basel II solution in particular brought an explosion in the amount of data that needed to be stored in the data warehouse.
The SAND/DNA nearline solution for SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 from SAND Technology was chosen because of its ability to compress data by an average of around 90 percent while still keeping it available for use in analysis or as the basis for new DataStore Objects (DSOs) or InfoCubes. Other positive factors were the low total cost of ownership of SAND/DNA, resulting from its minimal administration requirements compared with standard storage systems, and the solution's ability to scale linearly with very little or no reduction in throughput.
“SAND/DNA perfectly addressed our need to deliver relief for our existing system, cost-effective storage of our 'old data,' and transparent access to all of our data.” — Adrian Bourcevet, BW Architect, Volkswagen Financial Services
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