BNP Paribas

Topic: Oracle Database, OLAP, RAC
Date: Thursday, 13-MARCH-08
Time: 8:00 AM PT (11:00 AM ET,5:00 PM Central European Time)
Speaker: Jeremy Engasser, Lead DBA
Oracle Contact: Kara Cummings

In this informal reference call, participants will have the opportunity to speak firsthand with BNP Paribas. The call will open with a brief overview, followed by candid discussion and an open question and answer session. Please allow one hour for the call.

Industry: Financial Services
Revenue: US $55 Billion
Employees: 140,000
Company Website: WWW.BNPPARIBAS.COM
Products & Services: Oracle Database

A major European provider of banking and financial services. BNP Paribas has operations in 85 countries and ranks among the world's top 15 banks by market capitalization and assets. The group occupies leading positions in the fields of retail, corporate and investment banking, and asset management and services.

Challenges

• Reduce IT costs related to the company's legacy statistical analysis system
• Give thousands of users simultaneous access to the latest pricing figures while maintaining consistent, predictable response times
• Deliver the new system with minimal impact to existing users and applications

Solution

• Selected Oracle Database 10g and its Oracle OLAP option to create a highly scalable, available, and responsive IT infrastructure that delivers real-time analytics and pricing information
• Created a repository of more than 3 billion price points, loading up to 10 million records each day in real time
• Used Oracle's unique SQL layer to enable up to 4,000 traders and analysts to access the data via a range of applications, including Web services and existing spreadsheet applications
• Gained the ability to process more than 20 million requests each day with query times ranging from sub-seconds to just a few seconds, even for the most complex queries
• Benefited from consistently high performance and significantly lower cost of ownership

Toll Free Number (USA/Canada): +1 877 621 9086
International Toll Number: +1 706 634 9046
Conference ID: 36896034

NOTE: Unless you register your customer we cannot guarantee their line(s) will be opened for the Q&A (questions submitted are sent to the host prior to the call).