Success Stories
World Wide Technology, Inc.
From 'mission impossible' to $1 million in savings: World Wide Technology's database migration
For World Wide Technology (WWT), database performance is everything. The company does $4.2 billion in business a year providing global supply chain solutions to some of the world’s biggest original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Proactively seeking a new infrastructure to support increasing business capacity, WWT called on Pythian’s expertise. The mission: a massive database upgrade and migration to be completed quickly and with the absolute minimum downtime possible
LinkShare Corporation
LinkShare Corporation provides Fortune 500 businesses with a wide range of online marketing services, including search engine marketing, lead generation and affiliate marketing. LinkShare has significantly enhanced the performance and availability of its reporting and analysis services for hundreds of thousands of advertisers and publishers in its network. LinkShare worked with Pythian to plan, deploy, and manage Oracle Exadata, delivering 10x results for LinkShare.
FEXCO
FEXCO, a privately-owned company based in Ireland, is a global provider of merchant, business, consumer and international services. The company was recently acquired by Western Union. FEXCO needed to build out a secure, business-critical financial transaction processing system for deployment across Europe and North America in 2009/2010.
FreshDirect
Offering online grocery shopping and next-day delivery service, FreshDirect has become one of New York’s success stories. The company offers more than 6,000 different fresh food and grocery items and in a given day will process between 4,000 and 10,000 orders. Its customer base of more than 250,000+ continues to show rapid growth. Its databases are at the core of its business and FreshDirect has turned to Pythian as its trusted database infrastructure support partner since 2005.
Grasshopper
Having a professional, flexible phone system was a surprisingly large challenge for small businesses short on cash. Enter Siamak Taghaddos and David Hauser, who in 2003 (as they were graduating college) launched GotVMail to offer phone system service at rates starting at only $10 per month. They launched their business with under $200,000 in capital and bootstrapped their way to profitability quickly, and are now driving over $10 million in annual revenue. Keeping up with that kind of growth meant being able to scale the underlying service delivery platform at the lowest possible cost, without compromising customer satisfaction.
InPho
InPho Interactive provides tailored mobile and interactive voice response (IVR) products and services. The ability to provide fast and scalable communication solutions is a critical element to their business.
