The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of supporting a remote workforce, creating the opportunity for UKG to rapidly innovate across its software suite, introducing new features to improve communication and notification with remote employees, comply with new legislation and help monitor contact tracing.

In this fast-paced development environment, UKG found that its non-production data was being duplicated many times over and consuming unnecessary storage space. So it implemented data virtualization technology to reduce its storage footprint and speed up its provisioning process, with the following results:

• Analysis showed that non-production data was being duplicated by a factor of 1:1,000.
• Initial proof of concept demonstrated over 90% reduction was possible in data volumes.
• A cost-benefit analysis suggested a 10x ROI for the Delphix solution within one year.
• On an annualized basis, UKG has achieved 99.8% storage savings and estimated storage cost savings of $100,000.
• Data virtualization has contributed to UKG’s aim of provisioning a complete test environment in under 10 minutes.

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Schneider is undergoing a major transformation to digitize its business, and creating new customer-facing and back-office digital applications is a key part of this program. Supporting these endeavors are around 700 developers plus staff augmentation for larger projects. The company has also undertaken a significant legacy modernization project to replace older systems, largely with Oracle technologies.

Benefits of deploying Digital.ai include increased visibility into release and deployment, enabling continuous improvement across these processes.

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