Credit Reference Agency Achieves Rapid Time to Market With Database Software

Callcredit is a United Kingdom credit reference agency that supplies information to lenders to help them establish an individual's credit history and make more responsible decisions throughout the customer lifecycle. This involves processing 300 million data items - such as address and account details - per month. In the development of its credit reference solution, Callcredit needed a database that could handle massive, and ever expanding, data volumes. Once in the database, information has to be available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The IT team originally deployed Microsoft SQL Server version 7.0 as its database software, upgrading to SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005. Using Microsoft technology, Callcredit achieved a rapid arrival in the marketplace.