Echo Health Reduces Report Processing Time by 3X

Violin Memory, Inc. was chosen by ECHO Health, Inc. to enhance its implementation of SQL Server 2008.

ECHO’s health care payment systems required long overnight batch processing that impacted next-day business operations. Switching to a Violin All Flash Array reduced its nightly report runtime by 3X, from ten to three hours, improving efficiency to support ECHO’s projected 40% business growth.

Before the deployment of the All Flash Array, ECHO’s OLTP application was hindered by long overnight Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) batch processing, sometimes affecting business operations the next day. With the All Flash Array, nightly reports that had taken up to 10 hours to complete now run in about three hours. This improvement has allowed ECHO to focus on operations the next day without impediment, as well as, consolidate other data sets, including patient image retrievals.

“We needed a storage solution that would help us maintain our SLAs and grow our business,” said Chad Davis, VP and CIO, ECHO Health. “With the performance of the Violin All Flash Array, we spend less time on report generation, which allows us to focus on more strategic business initiatives.“

Payers, employers, health care providers and members (patients) benefit from ECHO’s services through reductions in the costs of fulfillment and customer service. ECHO consolidates payments and related statements to providers and members by delivering them electronically. Maintaining these SLAs requires a robust OLTP application with fast-backend storage to support it.

“ECHO Health is a perfect example of how Violin Memory’s All Flash solutions optimized OLTP and other important business workloads,” said Eric Herzog, CMO, Violin, “By reducing processing time with Violin, ECHO Health was able to eliminate long drawn out processing that impacted ECHO’s daily business workflow.“