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Sun Microsystems Case Study: Meloche

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Overview As the largest direct-response home and auto insurer in Canada, TD Meloche Monnex Group (Meloche) have to respond quickly to industry changes. Meloche wanted to leverage the digital data available from across the enterprise to significantly improve the level of analytic sophistication. To address this challenge, Meloche turned to trusted advisors Sun Microsystems and SAS and asked them to improve the performance of the company's analytics solution while reducing total cost of ownership. Technology experts from the Sun Solution Center for SAS Competency worked side-by-side with technology leaders from Meloche to size, configure, architect, and tune a complete, robust solution. The integrated solution from Sun and SAS empowers multiple, simultaneous users with information pulled from numerous systems and sources.

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Publisher	Sun Microsystems	File Format	PDF
Date Published	March 2008
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Application Servers, Data Mining - Analysis, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing

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