Case Study
SM Retail Achieves 400 – 500% Improvement in Data Availability with Vertica and Attunity Replicate
CASE STUDY: SM RETAIL, INC. SM Retail Achieves 400 – 500% Improvement in Data Availability with Vertica and Attunity Replicate SM Retail, Inc. is the leading department store in the Philippines, and it carries the franchise for a number of internationally recognized brands, such as Ace Hardware, Forever 21, and UNIQLO. SM had been using an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) system based on a standard row-store database. “But in terms of Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) performance and usability of report data, we just weren’t making our SLAs,” says Stephen Yap, Senior Vice President of Information Technology Services. Today, working with Attunity Replicate, the Vertica platform and Manthan Systems, their improved ETL is delivering a 400-500% improvement in availability of data f