
Stelo Powers Financial Services Data Ecosystem Transformation
Momentum Metropolitan Holdings is a financial services company and provider of healthcare, insurance, and investment solutions in SA. With a market capitalization of R22 billion and an embedded value of R45.4 billion, Momentum Metropolitan remains one of South Africa’s larger life insurers and integrated financial services companies.
"I have only the highest praise for Stelo. We can't operate without the Stelo Data Replicator, and our organization has standardized on it as the Data Replication tool of choice."
Kris Roux
Data Warehouse Developer
Need
MMH created a Data Warehouse with a nightly Database pull of JD Edwards financial packages from iSeries source to SQL Server targets. The company had an ad hoc solution in place that was not providing the financial information in a timely fashion to the business stakeholders. The previous solution was cumbersome to operate and consumed a significant amount of production resources. The company initially had more than 7500 tables incrementally in sync + snapshot and billions of data transfers. MMH needed a data replication tool with the capability of replicating only changed data versus reloading the entire datasets.
Solution
Initially, the company worked with Stelo to deploy Stelo Data Replicator for real time data replication from iSeries to SQL Server. After the initial success of the primary deployment, the engagement branched out significantly in three additional phases. MMW added replication to include Db2 for UDB to connect more than 10 different silos for different operational business units and added numerous SQL Server destinations that support call center activities, and other business functions including actuary and forensics.
Next, Stelo deployed a separate Stelo installation for the company’s Oracle data sources. Finally, the customer needed to push data into the Cloud and now use Stelo Data Replicator to replicate from on premise sources into Amazon Web Services and PostgreSQL.
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Results
Secure Flexibility
Multiple deployment models and unlimited source and destination connections proved a customized solution, in-step with company growth.
Automatic Recovery
Now when a connection is broken, no data is lost. Stelo automatically resumes replication without needing to re-baseline in the event of a connectivity failure.
Streamlined Process
By standardizing company-wide data replication with Stelo, IT team spend less rather that constantly maintaining a patchwork of replication tools.
Benefits
No Impact on Source Systems
By decreasing the data load on the local system, the engineers can perform performance stress testing on the local network without contending for CPU resources. Stelo utilizes a mere 0.2-1% of the source system CPU, and therefore it is extremely efficient and fast.
Verifying Data no Longer Requires Manual Intervention
By employing Stelo, the most significant benefit has been a 70% reduction in DBAs administrative time to verify data and maintain an underperforming ad hoc solution.
Constant Data Ecosystem Evolution
Today, two Stelo servers play a crucial role in the company’s data ecosystem, connecting over 50 sources and 20 destinations and performing over 100mil transactions per day in real time. As MMH's requirements grow, Stelo won't go out of date. New source and target types are continuously added through active updates.
Competitive Pricing Model
Before Stelo, MMH struggled with an expensive, inefficient data transfer tool. The Stelo license model, which is licensed by the number of virtual hardware cores to scale data demands grow is the most economical solution available, especially when compared to other replication tools on the market.
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