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Nationwide’s data connectivity solution had reached its limits, but while trying to update they ran into complex technical problems. Learn how Progress® DataDirect® helped them modernize in record time.
When a company is successful and growing but its data systems don’t scale well, it can be a problem. Nationwide Building Society came to understand this all too well, and embarked on a major project to modernize their systems. Well into the process, however, they encountered complex technical issues that were in danger of slowing them down drastically.
Nationwide is one of the UK’s largest providers of savings and home mortgages, with around 17,000 total employees and hundreds of developers working regularly with data analytics. From management to regulators to security to marketing, the data was crucial to the day-to-day operations of the company.
The system was clearly, as Paul Matthews, Head of Transformation at Nationwide Building Society put it, “a business-critical system to the organization.” It had to be available.
Enter Progress DataDirect. DataDirect actively supports a wide variety of the latest and fastest drivers in the industry, including the exact one Nationwide was seeking help with. Within days, trial drivers were sent out and a hotfix was provided. Support was a major factor in Nationwide’s choice of providers, with Matthews noting, “We were certainly impressed with the rapid response of the Progress team.”
After some further testing, the solution went live, and Nationwide has been enjoying a reliable solution that cuts the time it takes to run an average job down by 25%. New features and new functionalities were added at the same time. “Overall we are getting our month-end processes done in five days instead of ten,” Matthews observed, adding that the reliability and scalability of Progress DataDirect is critical to future growth plans as well.
For more details, you can read the complete Nationwide case study. To learn more about DataDirect, visit our page on Progress DataDirect connectivity solutions. For more information, please feel free to contact sales.
After spending 14 years working with Progress OpenEdge partners and End Users as a developers, consultant and architect Brent started to work with the Data Connectivity and Integration suite of products from mid-2014. Brent has used his application development, life cycle and modernization experience to assist several customers and partners enhance, migrate and modernize their applications using the Data Connectivity solutions offered by Progress DataDirect.
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