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Bucap and Actian Ingres: a winning team for archiving firm

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Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Data-as-a-Service Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage
Applicable Industries	Professional Service
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Services	Data Science Services
Challenge	Bucap, a leading Italian company providing outsourced document archiving and management services, needed a highly flexible and scalable system to allow quick and easy customization of the applications to respond to business requirements. The company handles huge quantities of data which must be managed and stored in systems compliant with the requirements of high availability, accessibility and security. Bucap also needed the system to be scalable, reliable, highly available and easy to maintain, in order to be able to support all the business processes of storage, indexing, retrieving, and displaying of the documents at the service level agreement committed with the customers. Read More
About Customer	Bucap S.p.A. is a leading Italian company providing outsourced document archiving and management services to enterprises and public administrations for more than 30 years. Today, Bucap serves more than 450 customers and provides full outsourcing services covering any requirements of physical and digital archiving, traceability and data processing. Key facts about Bucap include: 8 plants in Northern and Central Italy, 1000 linear km of physically stored paper documents, 497 million documents stored in its database, 4,500 documents retrieved any day from their customers and 68,000 images digitalized per day. Read More
Solution	Bucap chose Actian Ingres database for Sun Cluster to guarantee high availability and security. The company also used Actian OpenROAD languages to develop its own applications. This allowed Bucap to develop, adapt and customize the document management and back office software application, named Marica, to the continuously changing business and customer needs. The production environment is a server cluster guaranteeing nonstop services to the customers. A major advantage of Ingres is the ease of administration compared to competitive products; it is very easy to administer, check, change and retrieve statistics out of the database. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Data-as-a-Service

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage

Applicable Industries

Professional Service

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Services

Data Science Services

Challenge

Bucap, a leading Italian company providing outsourced document archiving and management services, needed a highly flexible and scalable system to allow quick and easy customization of the applications to respond to business requirements. The company handles huge quantities of data which must be managed and stored in systems compliant with the requirements of high availability, accessibility and security. Bucap also needed the system to be scalable, reliable, highly available and easy to maintain, in order to be able to support all the business processes of storage, indexing, retrieving, and displaying of the documents at the service level agreement committed with the customers.

About Customer

Bucap S.p.A. is a leading Italian company providing outsourced document archiving and management services to enterprises and public administrations for more than 30 years. Today, Bucap serves more than 450 customers and provides full outsourcing services covering any requirements of physical and digital archiving, traceability and data processing. Key facts about Bucap include: 8 plants in Northern and Central Italy, 1000 linear km of physically stored paper documents, 497 million documents stored in its database, 4,500 documents retrieved any day from their customers and 68,000 images digitalized per day.

Solution

Bucap chose Actian Ingres database for Sun Cluster to guarantee high availability and security. The company also used Actian OpenROAD languages to develop its own applications. This allowed Bucap to develop, adapt and customize the document management and back office software application, named Marica, to the continuously changing business and customer needs. The production environment is a server cluster guaranteeing nonstop services to the customers. A major advantage of Ingres is the ease of administration compared to competitive products; it is very easy to administer, check, change and retrieve statistics out of the database.

Impact #1	The possibility to in-source critical skills, such as DBA (DataBase Administrator) and DBSA (DataBase System Administrator)
Impact #2	The opportunity to test the new releases of the product in order to grow and consolidate the internal skills
Impact #3	A very high degree of flexibility in managing the processes and adapting them to the ever changing business and customer needs

Impact #1

The possibility to in-source critical skills, such as DBA (DataBase Administrator) and DBSA (DataBase System Administrator)

Impact #2

The opportunity to test the new releases of the product in order to grow and consolidate the internal skills

Impact #3

A very high degree of flexibility in managing the processes and adapting them to the ever changing business and customer needs

Benefit #1	Bucap personnel performs thousand transactions per day: new data input (68,000/day), query (4,500/day) and various reports
Benefit #2	All customers, with more than 5,000 active accounts, can connect at any time to query for documents and retrieve documents and images

Benefit #1

Bucap personnel performs thousand transactions per day: new data input (68,000/day), query (4,500/day) and various reports

Benefit #2

All customers, with more than 5,000 active accounts, can connect at any time to query for documents and retrieve documents and images

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Bucap and Actian Ingres: a winning team for archiving firm

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