STRATEC is one of the most innovative medical engineering companies in Germany. The development team was looking for a small but powerful object-oriented database that was available in “embedded mode” and would not require any database administration tasks from end users. The company develops and manufactures fully automated analyzer systems for clinical diagnostics and biotechnology. Main applications are blood group analysis, serological tests for infectious diseases, and immunoassays. About 90% of STRATEC’s products are licensed and sold through OEM customers, who market the systems under their own brands, including the chemical reagents.

Reliance Mutual, a UK-based life and pensions company, underwent a significant shift in its business model in 2003. Instead of writing new policies, the company started buying poorly performing existing life and pensions policies from other insurers. This aggressive growth strategy relied on the company's ability to aggregate these disparate policies within a single, highly efficient administration system that could turn the previously unprofitable into a robust income generator. The transition posed a two-fold challenge for Reliance Mutual’s IT department – to build and maintain a database capable of managing tremendous volumes of data, including migrating and integrating blocks of newly acquired policies – and to do so with a staff that had been dramatically reduced as part of a strategic review.

Pinnergy 的手动复式记账流程阻碍了顶级客户帐户的销售和计费。电子发票似乎不是一种选择，因为客户不依赖任何常见的后台系统。

Pediatrix Medical Group, a leading provider of maternal-fetal, newborn, and pediatric sub-specialty physician services, was facing significant challenges in its claims processing due to lack of data integration. The company works with multiple clearinghouses for insurance claims and receiving claims status reports, each of which employs unique and complex formats in generating reports. The lack of data integration between internal applications and clearinghouses caused breaks in information flow, slowing down the claims review and reporting process, and creating a disconnect between reporting and other process steps in the Pediatrix patient life cycle. As the volume of the claims increased, these challenges grew more severe, causing bottlenecks and delays in insurance claims processing.

C&K Market, a supermarket chain servicing Oregon and Northern California, was facing the need to transition from its legacy VMS platform to a new platform. The company wanted to adopt an open source database solution to take advantage of improved efficiencies, scalability, and low total cost of ownership. The company had been running Ingres on a VMS platform, which was being phased out. The efficient reporting and analysis of pricing and inventory – and effective control of costs – was all enabled through the Ingres Database, an enterprise open source database.

ISS Switzerland, a leading integrated facilities services company, was in need of a robust ERP back-office solution to support their payroll/HR, accounting, invoicing, and financial reporting needs. In the highly competitive market of facilities management, the company required a strong ERP system that would allow local management to run their business optimally. Additionally, the local entity needed to ensure that it could report its financials back to their corporate business in a timely manner and meet all the financial reporting requirements on an international level. After an exhaustive tender process where ISS Switzerland evaluated many other solutions, the company chose to work with Syslog and implement their ERP solution: Syslog ERP.

Verite Group was developing a packet reconstruction and network intelligence application, Netscope, which was expected to handle diverse deployment environments and large, complex data streams. The original designs for Netscope called for a relational approach, with the IBM DB2 PureXML to drive the application. However, during testing, it became apparent that the computational cost of retrieving and translating XML from the database into in-memory objects was prohibitive, to the point where enterprise scaling would be limited. Turning to an object-oriented approach, Verite looked to the Hibernate framework and ran simulations with both MySqL and PostGres powering the system. While the object approach proved the right path, the Hibernate setup put a drain on CPU and disk usage, to the point where it impeded performance at even modest network data volumes.

Unruly Media, a leading global technology platform for social video distribution and analytics, was faced with the challenge of providing its clients with real-time visibility into the social footprint of their videos. This included factors such as reach, shareability, and other elements critical to gaining a competitive business advantage. The company needed a robust solution that could handle the delivery, tracking, and auditing of billions of video views across thousands of social video campaigns for hundreds of brands.

NK.pl, a popular social networking service in Poland, was facing a challenge in keeping pace with the changing preferences and behaviors of its 13 million users. The traditional transaction database used by NK.pl was not powerful enough to process the 250 terabytes of data generated by its users in a timely manner. When product managers attempted to run queries against the data, which was spread across 1,500 servers, they faced query response times of three to four weeks. Such slow response times were unacceptable to NK.pl because the data was outdated and meaningless by the time it was received. To optimize product features, marketing efforts, and the experience of its social network members, NK.pl needed a system that could perform both simple and rich queries quickly for intra-day analysis and response in an extremely cost-effective manner.

With its business growing, Peerless needed a more consistent, flexible platform to modernize its production environment and support future expansion. The company began exploring commercial off-the-shelf enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and underlying databases. While companies in similar situations often go straight to proprietary vendors, Peerless decided to build its own ERP solution from the ground up. With a team of just a half-dozen developers, Hamilton’s department set out to develop a fully featured business platform that would automate every aspect of the company’s business processes – from forecasting and ordering, to production, packaging, and distribution – in order to enable a highly optimized just-in-time manufacturing process. To support this environment, Peerless required a flexible, scalable database environment that would be easy for developers to optimize around the evolving ERP platform.

物联网的出现导致制造业对廉价的物联网设备的需求。 Global Shop Solutions 需要一个轻量级嵌入式数据库解决方案来与其 ERP 解决方案高效交互。

汉诺威再保险需要一种更有效地吸引新保险客户的方法。他们现有的解决方案无法处理客户提供的各种数据和文件格式。

提供强大而稳定的数据库平台，以支持航空公司自己的规划和路线选择软件，该软件也已授权给全球数百家航空公司

提供员工生成支出 (EGS) 的可见性，并将其与组织内的其他支出渠道进行协调

Lechler GmbH, a German mid-sized company specializing in the manufacture of nozzles and custom spray technology solutions, needed to revamp its company-wide manufacturing technology solution. The company aimed to improve its business processes, enhance and extend its reporting options, and ensure flexibility in its database administration. The ultimate goal was to continuously improve customer service and minimize the time from order to delivery. Prior to the implementation of the new system, Lechler was working with a large data processing center which was very inflexible.

Pinnergy, a diversified energy services company, was struggling with an outdated, manually-driven invoicing process. Invoices moved from the dispatch system through customer signoff and then had to be entered into customers’ online electronic data interchange (EDI) systems. This process was tedious and involved significant duplication of effort and data, increasing the potential for errors and disputed invoices. As Pinnergy’s business grew, order management became more complex, with more customers and a higher volume of transactions moving through multiple applications with various data formats to support and no common standard for data exchange. The invoicing process became a bottleneck, resulting in high cost per transaction and high accounts receivable aging.

Banca IFIS, an independent Italian bank specializing in financing enterprises, faced a challenge when new Italian banking regulations imposed a demand for a higher level of security and data protection. The bank had to evolve its core business application to meet these new challenges. The main issue was the limited time frame available to implement the new version of their application to meet the timeline given to the bank. In less than one year, they had to deliver a cost-effective and scalable solution, a fully unicode enabled database and application to support Banca IFIS expansion, high availability, and a secured infrastructure fulfilling disaster recovery targets imposed by new banking regulations.

British Friendly, an income protection mutual company, was running an outdated version of the Ingres database (v2.6) for their M2000 insurance application. The company wanted to upgrade to Ingres v9.2.3 to benefit from the database’s new functionality and new hardware. However, they only had one administrator to manage the M2000 insurance application and lacked the internal resources needed to both upgrade to v.9.2.3 or continue to monitor the Ingres database to ensure their applications and associated systems continue to run smoothly. Furthermore, the company needed to ensure that their internal risk levels were not compromised by upgrading their internal systems.

Echelon is a pioneer and world leader in control networks and embedded control networks, which connect machines and other electronic devices. They needed an embedded database compatible with the object-oriented application model. A predecessor of LNS was introduced in 1991, using procedural code and an embedded record oriented/ relational data storage toolkit. As object-oriented programming began to emerge, the team realized that using object-oriented programming was the most productive way to add features and power to the system. At the same time, the team realized that the record oriented storage toolkit was an obstacle to object-oriented development and a big usability problem because it exposed the embedded database structure to their broad OEM programmer community.

The Federal Railroad Administration is expecting railroad freight traffic to double by 2020. However, the U.S. railroad infrastructure cannot be expanded to keep pace with this demand. Railroads are confronted with meeting this demand in some other way. GE Transportation Systems, the global technology leader and supplier to the railroad industry, is addressing the problem with RailEdge® Movement Planner, an object-oriented software system incorporating the Versant Object Database. GE Transportation’s customer, Norfolk Southern Railroad, operates 2,500 trains per day over a 21,000-mile system serving every major container port in the eastern United States. Norfolk Southern expects to increase railroad capacity, velocity and efficiency with no new tracks, to increase average network train speed 10 to 20 percent, and to save millions of dollars in capital and expense.

The Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU) of the University of Oxford is involved in extensive bioresearch and healthcare studies. They extract and analyze data related to the causes, prevention, and treatment of chronic illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, and strokes. However, they faced a significant challenge when they realized that their existing database platform could not cope with the large data volumes involved in their research. The legacy platform struggled with complex queries, especially when they involved several thousand fields. The analytics could take days, which was not acceptable for the fast-paced research environment. They needed a solution that could handle high-speed analytics and deliver results within extremely fast timescales.

The Pesticides Safety Directorate (PSD), an executive agency of the UK Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, was facing the challenge of keeping pace with rising regulatory challenges without increasing costs. The organization’s mission encompasses ensuring the safety, effectiveness, and regulatory compliance of plant protection products used by both industry and amateur gardeners; regulating a market worth around £450 million in the UK and a similar figure in overseas exports; and shaping UK policies on pesticide issues – all with a staff of only 200. Technology plays a vital role in making this possible. Most recently, Park’s group was called on to deliver a particularly high-profile project – enabling the electronic delivery of all services, followed by the introduction of a complete, end-to-end electronic workflow for the entire new product application and approval process.

The Rohatyn Group (TRG), a hedge fund based in New York, needed a solution to manage risk in the highly volatile market of hedge funds. Information about positions, pricing, and risk is critical to investment decision-making. For tactical decision-making, TRG provided analysts immediate access to the information they needed in a format that they could use through a self-service data access environment. However, the combination of market volatility and a desire to do more strategic analysis drove the need to understand how their positions had performed over time. While the existing solution provided the interactive analysis TRG was looking for, it did not have the historical data. They wanted the user tools to remain the same and the query responses to be interactive, but they needed to do the analysis on more than 1000 times the data.

The Bank’s in-house analytics solution, Netezza, had reached its end-of-life cycle and was not going to be supported by IBM or its channel partners. The Bank needed to create one data repository for all positions across all asset classes, enabling ad hoc analysis of positions and their sensitivity to market factors. The Bank also wanted greater visibility into its risk exposure. It knew that presently, managing client risk and exposure was at 20th-century levels. For example, risk and opportunity value was analyzed via batch data dumps once a day. The Bank needed greater insights, delivered in sub-minute intervals, multiple times a day. It also had additional criteria that had to be met, including improved price/performance levels, ease of development and maintenance, durability, and a palatable TCO.

数据归档公司 Bucap 需要一个灵活、可扩展的数据库，能够快速、轻松地定制应用程序，以满足不断变化的业务需求。

当对 Netezza 的支持结束时，一家大型全球银行需要一种新的分析解决方案，该解决方案可以更快地提供更深入的见解，随着银行的发展而扩展，并在提供高性能的同时保持低成本。

Superior Energy Services 需要通过减少应收账款周转天数 (DSO) 和简化大型企业客户的发票来改善营运资金。

为了满足对易于管理且围绕比利时会计规则设计的高性能会计解决方案的需求，总部位于布鲁日的 Unit4 C-Logic（以前称为 C-Logic）需要一个可嵌入式、面向性能的数据库，该数据库可以在无需任何操作的情况下实现最佳运行。正在进行的管理。

为客户提供可操作的实时见解，以扩大视频活动的社交足迹

Netwrix Corporation, a market-leading visibility and governance platform for IT environments, was facing several issues due to their archaic data management system of copying and pasting data between datasets. This process did not scale as the company grew to a $20 million company and it quickly became clear that the company needed a better solution. The company faced three main challenges: eliminating errors in their copy and paste method, scaling their processes, and improving data integrity. In order to solve these systematic problems, Netwrix needed an efficient and effective enterprise planning software that could allow them to smoothly integrate with Salesforce.