Customers

GridApp Systems acts as a strategic partner for its customers, ensuring they get the most appropriate and cost-effective solution for their needs. GridApp has helped organizations increase efficiency, from decreasing the number of hours it takes to deploy an Oracle RAC cluster by 90% to improving the overall database to DBA ratio. GridApp customers are better prepared for their formal compliance audits, are able to standardize database procedures throughout their organization, and can focus on more value-adding database activities, like performance tuning.

With hundreds of installations in place, GridApp has helped medium and large enterprises manage their data environments through clustering and utility computing technologies, while delivering significant TCO savings. Some companies using GridApp's technology include:


Bank of America
Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk-management products and services.		      Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG) is the holding company for Sumitomo Mitsui Banking, which is the third-largest bank in Japan. The bank's operations include retail, corporate, and investment banking, asset management, securities trading, and loans. Sumitomo Mitsui Banking has some 500 domestic branches and about 20 international offices.

Rabobank
Rabobank Group is an international financial services provider operating on the basis of cooperative principles. It offers retail banking, wholesale banking, asset management, leasing and real estate services. Rabobank Group is comprised of 152 independent local Rabobanks plus Rabobank Nederland, their central organization, and a number of subsidiaries. Overall, Rabobank Group has upwards of 60,000 employees who serve about 9.5 million clients in 46 countries.		 Société Générale
Société Générale commands a three-pronged campaign with operations in global investment management; retail banking and specialized financial services, including finance, leasing, and insurance; and corporate and investment banking, focusing on European capital markets, derivatives, and structured finance. SocGen has about 3,000 branches in France (including its Credit du Nord division), and some 5,300 locations worldwide.		 Putnam Investments
Putnam Investments is a global money management firm with 70 years of investment experience, over $106 billion in assets under management, 128 institutional clients, and nearly 8 million shareholders and retirement plan participants. Putnam selected GridApp Clarity to help drive database operational efficiency and predictability.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM)
is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2.2 trillion and operations in more than 60 countries. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset management and private equity.		 National Australia Bank Limited
The National Australia Bank Limited is part of the National Australia Bank Group. The Group is an international financial services organization that provides a comprehensive and integrated range of financial products and services. NAB selected GridApp Clarity™ to reduce time-to-market for new applications and increase consistency and predictability.		 Sanofi-Pasteur
Sanofi-Pasteur, the vaccines business of the Sanofi-Aventis Group, needed a database standardization and automation solution, but were concerned about their planned transition to different OSs and storage systems. GridApp Clarity™ ensured support for their cross-platform environment for today as well as for their future requirements.

Boehringer Ingelheim
Boehringer Ingelheim is a worldwide operating affiliated group of companies with almost 40.000 employees. Boehringer's major business areas include: branded and generic prescription medicines, consumer health care, and industrial customer business for third parties.		 Bayer
Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the fields of health care, nutrition and high-tech materials. Bayer's products and services are designed to benefit people and improve their quality of life.		 Eisai
Eisai Inc. is a human health care company seeking innovative solutions in disease prevention, cure and care for the health and well-being of people worldwide. Eisai chose GridApp Clarity™ to improve the efficiency of their database operations. Eisai also uses Clarity for its ongoing initiatives in change control and configuration management.

Verizon Business Services
Verizon is a leader in the telecommunications and systems management space delivering world class IT services to individuals, businesses and governments.		 General Electric Healthcare
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. The company helps clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform, and treat disease. GE Healthcare chose GridApp Clarity™ to aid in their transition to a centralized, standardized database infrastructure.		 Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin Corporation engages principally in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration, and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products, and services in the United States and internationally. Divisions include Aeronautics, Electronic Systems Business Area, Information Systems & Global Services, and Space Systems.

Exelon
Exelon Corporation is one of the nation's largest electric utilities with approximately $19 billion in annual revenues. Exelon distributes electricity and gas to approximately 6 million customers in Illinois (ComEd), Pennsylvania (PECO), and Philadelphia (PECO).		 Epsilon
Epsilon needed a way to cost-effectively and efficiently expand its database infrastructure as it acquired new clients. By selecting GridApp Clarity™, Epsilon gained not only an easy path to scalability, but also achieved a level of database automation and manageability that could not be achieved through traditional solutions.		 AG Interactive
AG Interactiveis an American Greetings company that specializes in creating content to help people creatively express themselves and emotionally connect with each other via multiple electronic platforms. AG Interactive selected GridApp's D2500 Database Appliance for fast deployment and easy on-going administration for Oracle RAC.

Network Appliance
Network Appliance, Inc. is a world leader in unified storage solutions for today's data-intensive enterprise. Since its inception, Network Appliance has delivered technology, product, and partner firsts that simplify data management. NetApp selected GridApp Clarity™ as the foundation in fully automating their compliance process.		 Kaplan
Kaplan is one of the world's leading providers of lifelong education with operations around the globe. Kaplan has evolved well beyond its historic roots in test preparation to serve students of all ages through a wide array of offerings.		 ReserveAmerica
ReserveAmerica is the largest provider of campsite reservations in North America. ReserveAmerica needed a high-performance and cost-effective way to scale their Oracle infrastructure. GridApp's Clarity™ software and D2500 database appliance created a multi-region grid of processing power, allowing ReserveAmerica to reduce costs and improve performance.

Glam Media
Glam Media is a distributed media company ranked number one in reach for women with over 22 million unique visitors in the U.S. and 35 million globally. Glam Media chose GridApp Clarity for its out-of-the-box automation functionality to migrate to Oracle 10g RAC.		 Veterans Administration - Palo Alto Health Care System
The VA Palo Alto Health Care System is a major research and primary care network, comprised of 3 hospitals and 6 clinics servicing nearly 1 million patients a year. The VA selected GridApp Systems' D2500 to simplify Oracle database management and guarantee a highly secured, HIPAA compliant environment.		 Regence BlueCross BlueShield
Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon provides medical, dental, and related coverage for nearly one million members in Oregon and in Clark County, Washington. Facing tight deadlines and with no in-house expertise, Regence selected GridApp Clarity™ to ensure quick deployment and easy on-going administration for their Oracle RAC initiatives.

The Statue of Liberty Ellis Island Foundation
The Status of Liberty Ellis Island Foundation manages more than 30 million records of data regarding immigration information, enabling individuals to quickly locate their ancestors from the Ellis Island archives. GridApp's D2500 Database Appliance was used to help them better manage their RAC database.		 Grasshopper
Grasshopper offers virtual phone systems for small and home-based businesses, customizable for 1 to 10 employees. With Grasshopper, small businesses can sound professional, gain control over incoming calls and simplify the way callers reach them. Grasshopper uses GridApp's Clarity to maintain and update their RAC database.		 Bowker
As the U.S. ISBN Agency, R.R. Bowker receives the most authoritative title and publisher information available. Bowker offers a wide range of specialized and broadly-applicable, reference and reporting products and services. GridApp's D2500 Database Appliance provides Bowker with on-demand Oracle RAC performance to better manage their data.

EMI Music Publishing
EMI is the world's largest independent music company, operating directly in 50 countries and employing over 6,300 people. The company owns the largest catalogue of songs in the world, containing over a million contemporary and classic titles. EMI selected GridApp's Professional Services Group for their deep database expertise.		 Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon is a global research university recognized for its world-class arts and technology programs, collaboration across disciplines and innovative leadership in education. CMU selected GridApp Systems and the D2500 database appliance to enable database consolidation and high availability across the enterprise.		 TheStreet.com
TheStreet.com, Inc. is a leading multimedia creator of business and investment content. Founded in 1996, the company pioneered the electronic publishing of financial information on the Internet. TheStreet.com selected GridApp as their database platform of choice to simplify and accelerate the deployment and management of their infrastructure.