Swedish Pensions Agency Customer of Proact

The Swedish Pensions Agency is in the midst of a digital shake-up that is being driven by huge amounts of data.

At the same time, the agency wants to offer more services that improve user experiences. To do this, the public body worked with Proact IT Group AB to improve its infrastructure and internal IT operations.

At the start of this project, the Pensions Agency set-out to improve the efficiency of its database cloning without compromising the performance of its production environment. The first step towards this goal was to pick a data centre storage platform.

Under the guidance of Proact, the Pensions Agency introduced NetApp, Inc.‘s snapshot cloning technology. This has proved to be a cost-effective choice which has reduced the amount of disk space required while also making the cloning process much faster.

To achieve database performance, Proact’s Oracle Corp. knowledge came into play. Database clones can be created by the agency’s software developers and testers using a self-service portal. Creating database clones is possible in just ten minutes, in comparison to three hours previously, enabling much faster response times and more time to spend of enterprise development and support.