Case Study for Corporations

Background

TravelExpert is an insurance company which mainly focuses on auto and travel insurance. The company has 20 offices in the United States, 3 in Canada, 5 in Japan, and 4 in Mexico. Currently, the company has one insurance system in each country to serve its customers.

Problems

The customers who travel overseas cannot receive timely service from the local office of their destination.
It is very costly to maintain 4 separate systems.
It is a very painful process to generate reports including data from all the offices for the management team.

Requirements

Provide timely service to customers from any office.
Reduce development and maintenance costs.
Quickly generate management reports that include activities from all offices.
Ensure fast data access using existing infrastructure.

Solutions

To meet the requirements, TravelExpert decides to develop a centralized insurance system to serve its offices around the world. The database server is located in its head office.

Purchase DB-WAN-Accel and Install Datacenter Compression Server (DCS) in the head office
Install Branch Compression Server (BCS) in the remote offices.