In order to consolidate its IT architecture and improve the performance of its applications, Swiss insurance leader Swiss Mobiliar has selected Oracle Database 12c to serve as its strategic database. In 2014, Swiss Mobiliar, which provides home, car, accident, and risk management insurance and other financial services to more than 1.7 million Swiss individuals and businesses, found itself at a crossroad: With a long history of successful mergers and acquisitions, it had also built up a complex and unwieldy IT infrastructure. With various databases, mainframe and server technologies from a multitude of vendors, as well as a wide range of legacy COBOL applications, Swiss Mobiliar realized this infrastructure would no longer scale to support the company's long-term growth plans. As a result, the company sought to find the right database to support its strategy and selected Oracle Database 12c. Swiss Mobiliar overhauled and modernized its database infrastructure by consolidating onto Oracle Database 12c and extending the product's capabilities with the Oracle Database In-Memory option for real-time analytics. With Oracle Database... More