US data analytics company, Actian, has announced that UK automobile insurer and breakdown service provider, The AA, has selected its Avalanche hybrid cloud data warehouse for its insurance business to execute its cloud strategy.
Actian's Avalanche data warehouse service, will enable the AA to analyse operational data in real-time to provide customised services to its clients. Actian claims Avalanche's high performance and scalability enables the AA to process their data science workloads at lightning speed, taking advantage of Actian's flexible pay-as-you-go subscription pricing and compute elasticity.
"Insurance is a dynamic business. The cloud brings new opportunities for deployment of next generation analytics," said Paul Frith, Head of Underwriting Data & Systems, The AA. "Avalanche was the natural choice for cloud data warehousing because it gives reliability, breakthrough performance, and flexibility to deploy different workloads on-prem and in the cloud to best meet the needs of our customers today and in the future."
The hybrid architecture of the Avalanche data warehouse provides The AA with:
- High-performance analytic database technology on-prem and in the cloud
- Cloud economics with pay-as-you-go pricing
- Multi-cloud platform support and enterprise-grade security
- The ability to scale compute on demand
"Businesses today need application portability between their cloud and on-prem data warehouses," said Jeff Veis, Actian Chief Marketing Officer. "Actian's innovative architecture and multi-cloud support gives customers choice in how and where they deploy. This strategy prevents cloud lock-in while ensuring data-driven organizations have access to the data and insight they need to act in the business moment."
Source: Actian