{"id":247472,"date":"2019-06-18T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T08:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/?p=247472"},"modified":"2019-06-11T09:29:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T08:29:54","slug":"fa2-database-migration-that-helps-you-be-better-than-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/en-ie\/transform-en-ie\/manufacturing-en-ie\/fa2-database-migration-that-helps-you-be-better-than-the-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Database migration that helps you be \u2018better than the best\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Japanese term dantotsu<\/em> is difficult to translate, but roughly means \u2018better than the best\u2019. Since its founding nearly 100 years ago, Japanese construction and mining equipment multinational, Komatsu, has striven to provide its customers with a service that achieves just that.<\/p>\n

As part of this mission, Komatsu launched its Dantotsu Strategy <\/em>in 2003, which included the creation of a line of \u2018Dantotsu Products\u2019, labelled as such due to their unrivalled design and performance. But today the company knows that achieving dantotsu<\/em> means looking beyond the machines themselves \u2013 instead analysing the data they produce.<\/p>\n

Komatsu and its quest for dantotsu<\/em><\/h2>\n

Construction is an extremely data-rich industry \u2013 in Australia alone, Komatsu has more than 30,000 machines in daily operation that stream data on productivity, machine condition, and other factors. This makes data modernization essential \u2013 and choosing the right database management system a key business decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have 1.5 terabytes of data and that number is growing fast,\u201d explains Nipun Sharma, Analytics Architect, Business Technology & Systems at Komatsu Australia. \u201cWe currently process around a million records per day \u00ad\u2013 and we determined Azure SQL Database Managed Instance was the best choice for us<\/a> in terms of scalability, cost, and performance\u201d.<\/p>\n

Modernize your data platform<\/h2>\n

One of the key factors that influenced the Japanese company\u2019s decision was Azure SQL Database Managed Instance\u2019s near 100 percent compatibility with the latest on-premises SQL Servers, making migration quick and simple \u2013 not to mention, extremely cost-effective.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe moved our entire database and the Discovery Hub analytics implementation to Azure SQL Database Managed Instance in less than two weeks, and since then we\u2019ve seen a 49 percent cost reduction and 25 to 30 percent performance gains,\u201d says Sharma.<\/p>\n

But Komatsu\u2019s performance gains and savings \u2013 while clearly worth shouting about \u2013 are in line with what was envisaged. Expected return on investment for migrating to Azure SQL Database Managed Instance is 212%, with post-migration payback predicted to be under six months. Coupled with performance benefits that allow you to scale your workloads in real-time, all in a secure cloud environment \u00ad\u2013 migrating from an SQL Server is the logical choice for any company wanting to achieve dantotsu<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Japanese term dantotsu is difficult to translate, but roughly means \u2018better than the best\u2019. Since its founding nearly 100 years ago, Japanese construction and mining equipment multinational, Komatsu, has striven to provide its customers with a service that achieves just that. As part of this mission, Komatsu launched its Dantotsu Strategy in 2003, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":246883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1805],"class_list":["post-247472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-customer-stories-en-ie","specials-transform-en-ie","verticalIndustries-manufacturing-en-ie","stories-business-optimization-en-ie","stories-how-can-i-use-the-cloud-business-optimization-en-ie","businessPriorities-data-ai-en-ie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/en-ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/en-ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/en-ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/en-ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/en-ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/en-ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249384,"href":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/en-ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247472\/revisions\/249384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/en-ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/en-ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/en-ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}