Case Study: Retiring On-Prem Systems & Migrating to Snowflake

Written by Jared Hillam

 

 

About Client

The Client is one of the top most recognized American insurance companies and has serviced countless home and car owners since the early 1900s. Today they are one of the most technically advanced property and casualty insurance companies in the United States. 

The Challenge

The Client needed to retire its on-prem systems, namely Hadoop and Microsoft's Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), in order to migrate to Snowflake and the cloud. Neither Hadoop nor PDW was performant enough to get the Client what it needed. Not only would this Snowflake migration address the performance issues but it also would create massive cost savings in retiring those systems in the long run. 

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Who is Intricity?

Intricity is a specialized selection of over 100 Data Management Professionals, with offices located across the USA and Headquarters in New York City. Our team of experts has implemented in a variety of Industries including, Healthcare, Insurance, Manufacturing, Financial Services, Media, Pharmaceutical, Retail, and others. Intricity is uniquely positioned as a partner to the business that deeply understands what makes the data tick. This joint knowledge and acumen has positioned Intricity to beat out its Big 4 competitors time and time again. Intricity’s area of expertise spans the entirety of the information lifecycle. This means when you’re problem involves data; Intricity will be a trusted partner. Intricity's services cover a broad range of data-to-information engineering needs:

 

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What Makes Intricity Different?

While Intricity conducts highly intricate and complex data management projects, Intricity is first a foremost a Business User Centric consulting company. Our internal slogan is to Simplify Complexity. This means that we take complex data management challenges and not only make them understandable to the business but also make them easier to operate. Intricity does this through using tools and techniques that are familiar to business people but adapted for IT content.

 

 

Thought Leadership

Intricity authors a highly sought after Data Management Video Series targeted towards Business Stakeholders at https://www.intricity.com/videos.  These videos are used in universities across the world. Here is a small set of universities leveraging Intricity’s videos as a teaching tool:

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Talk With a Specialist

If you would like to talk with an Intricity Specialist about your particular scenario, don’t hesitate to reach out to us. You can write us an email: specialist@intricity.com

 

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Case Study: Retiring On-Prem Systems & Migrating to Snowflake

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