Case Study: BMC paves way for rapid growth at CARFAX, Inc.
Business Need
Increase IT efficiency and productivity through automation, thereby enabling the staff to support rapid growth, including an increasing volume of data, an expanding customer base, and the need for a larger, more complex IT infrastructure
Solutions
BSM solutions from BMC Software help CARFAX automate batch scheduling, gain insight into the impact of batch business process issues, establish and meet customer service level agreements, and monitor servers to detect problems
Results
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"I'd estimate that without the BMC solutions, our group would have needed to grow from four people to 20. Now, we've been able to reassign some of the original four to other areas of IT, enabling them to broaden their skills and increase their value to CARFAX." -- Robert Stinnett Senior Analyst CARFAX, Inc. |
In Detail:
Car buyers are becoming increasingly savvy, particularly when it comes to selecting used vehicles. Global marketing information firm J. D. Power and Associates estimates that more than half of all used-vehicle buyers use the Internet as part of their shopping process. With millions of visitors each month, www.carfax.com is one of the top five Web sites on which consumers rely for vehicle information. Moreover, thousands of auto dealers, major auto classifieds Web sites, and even banks and finance companies subscribe to CARFAX to increase their effectiveness in pricing, selling, and financing used vehicles.
Today, the CARFAX, Inc. database contains nearly five billion vehicle history records gathered from more than 20,000 data sources, including all departments of motor vehicles (DMVs) in the United States and Canada, as well as many vehicle inspection stations, auto auctions, fleet management and rental agencies, automobile manufacturers, and fire and police departments. CARFAX depends on its IT organization to provide a reliable, high-performance infrastructure to support the huge volume of constantly changing data and meet customer expectations for immediate delivery of vehicle information.
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