Improved scalability and performance by migrating on-premise Hadoop and Netezza platforms to AWS Redshift and AWS Data Lake for Mercury Insurance

Founded in 1961 and headquartered in Los Angeles, Mercury Insurance is a multiple-line insurance organization offering personal automobile, homeowners, renters, and business insurance. It has assets in excess of $ 5.9 billion, employs 4,000+ people and has more than 9,400 independent agents.

Mercury Insurance wanted to enable quicker business decisions based on analytics. Owing to its complex Hadoop and Netezza platforms, the client wanted a solution to expand its Data Warehouse to address scalability and performance issues.

Microland performed a TCO analysis of various solutions available for optimizing the output based on reusing licenses, right-sizing storage by data type & usage to reduce associated costs and the potential savings generated by migrating to cloud.