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Chevron is one of the world’s leading integrated energy companies producing safe, reliable energy now and for the future

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Outcomes

  • Benefited from the following OpenText Software capabilities: Standard SQL interface, simultaneous loading and querying, high availability without hardware redundancy, optimizer and execution engine
  • Reduced their Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by 51-100% after using OpenText (formerly Vertica).
  • Improved their query performance by over 50x with OpenText (formerly Vertica).
  • Achieved 101 – 200% return on investment (ROI) as a result of implementing OpenText (formerly Vertica).

Challenge

This case study of Chevron Corporation is based on a July 2017 survey of OpenText (formerly Vertica) customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

The business challenge that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select OpenText (formerly Vertica):

  • Replaced the following vendor with OpenText (formerly Vertica):
  • MySQL

Details

The key features and functionalities of OpenText (formerly Vertica) that the surveyed company
uses:
  • Implemented the following use cases with OpenText (formerly Vertica):
    • Traditional business tracking (ERP, CRM)
    • Customer Behavior analytics
    • Clickstream analytics
    • Predictive analytics
  • Manages 6 – 100 TB of data with OpenText software.
  • Uses the following Business Intelligence (BI), Visualization, ETL, and/or analytics tool in their environment with OpenText (formerly Vertica):
    • ETL: Talend

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with OpenText (formerly Vertica):

  • Benefited from the following OpenText Software capabilities:
    • Standard SQL interface
    • Simultaneous loading and querying
    • High availability without hardware redundancy
    • Optimizer and Execution Engine
  • Reduced their Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by 51-100% after using OpenText (formerly Vertica).
  • Improved their query performance by over 50x with OpenText (formerly Vertica).
  • Achieved 101 – 200% return on investment (ROI) as a result of implementing OpenText (formerly Vertica).

We've achieved a significant Return on Investment (ROI) as a result of implementing Vertica (now OpenText) database.

Young Tae Kim
Database Administrator, Chevron Corporation