First American Title Insurance Runs Mission Critical Application on SQL Server 2005
First American Title Insurance Company is one of the largest title insurance companies in the United States. Over the years, First American acquired several companies, leading to a complex IT environment that at one point had more than 50 different title and escrow systems. The company united these disparate systems on the Microsoft® Application Platform, including Microsoft SQL Server® 2005, to take advantage of features such as Online Indexing and enhanced replication. By implementing a Microsoft solution, First American gained enterprise-grade stability and faster performance.
Based in Santa Ana, California, First American Title Insurance Company is the second largest title company in the United States.
Business Situation
First American Title Insurance Company needed an enterprise-grade solution to support its mission-critical First American Software Technology (FAST) application and its 8-terabyte database.
Solution
The company upgraded its FAST application database to Microsoft® SQL Server® 2005 Enterprise Edition to take advantage of Online Indexing and other new features. The company is also looking forward to deploying SQL Server 2008.
Benefit
Faster re-indexing
Enterprise-grade stability
Faster performance
Ease of upgrading
Enhanced data replication
Software
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise X64 Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition for Itanium-Based Systems
Quote
"We have 8 terabytes of data in our largest database, and our biggest table has 850 million rows. SQL Server 2005 has performed faultlessly."
Priti Desai, Vice President of Title Application Development, First American Title Insurance Company
