I'm working for a retail client. We have a lot of reports, which are for store managers. The store managers used to get all the reports using the SSIS package, which was built upon our back end and they would have a lot of performance issues. When I say performance issues, in the morning when there are almost 2,000 users trying to connect to the same report, there were a lot of problems because it was a relational database. People were trying to get information out of it and it would break the flow, actually bottleneck the flow. That's why they were getting the impact. What we did is, we did a PoC and found this client is well built. Because of that, we were able to create a separate layer for reporting. There was a simple requirement for the DBA, where we don't need to build an index or anything like that. Those reports were improved from a couple of hours to minutes. That was the biggest benefit we've had from this appliance. For me, mainly, it reduces my costs. It's not only the appliance cost. There are also support costs and a maintenance costs. It does reduce the costs very drastically.
