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CASE STUDY
GROUPON
Eliminates Workload Automation
Downtime Immediately by
Switching to Stonebranch
www.stonebranch.com
Marco Caesar
Data Warehouse Manager,
GROUPON
“Stonebranch makes
workflows highly visual
and easy to understand.
The global leader of local commerce and With Universal Automation
Center we are able to create
merchant solutions replaces SOS Berlin with workflows 10 times faster,
Stonebranch Universal Automation Center to and we can include everyone
in the process. Coding or
increase reliability and efficiency. scipt experience is no longer
needed, a huge advantage
for us.“
Background Challenges
Results
Groupon is a worldwide leader in local Ever since Groupon began operations
commerce and merchant solutions. It in Germany, it had used open-source
enables local businesses in more than software from SOS Berlin for job
500 markets to offer specially targeted scheduling. However, the solution had n 10 times faster
deals to consumers in various categories. become unstable and was beginning to deployment, no training
miss key deadlines. It failed at least once time needed
The company has more than 10,000 every two weeks, sometimes as often as
employees in 48 countries, and is serving three times a week. n 30 hours average annual
more than 53 million active users and unplanned downtime
more than 260 million global subscribers. Each time, an administrator had to spend eliminated to date
20 minutes finding and fixing the problem
In Germany, Austria and Switzerland, before operations could re-start. In
Groupon is one of the most successful addition, the IT team could not schedule
n $11,000 in reduced
e-commerce businesses. To support or run a task on a server unless SOS hardware costs
German operations, Groupon runs at least Berlin was already installed on it.
10,000 jobs a day on servers in multiple n Significantly improved
locations, with 2,000 defined tasks Therefore, Groupon wanted a solution resilience and ease of
launched by 1,900 triggers. that could schedule and run tasks on a use
remote system without having to install
workload automation software first.
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Solution
* Return on Automation (RoA):
Groupon evaluated workload automation Stonebranch is a 64-bit solution, with the investment in automation and the
right automation tool pays off in a
solutions from major vendors such as greater processing bandwidth, whereas
short time and returns many benefits.
BMC and Automic, but chose Stonebranch SOS Berlin was 32-bit. Reliability and These include higher efficiency, faster
Universal Automation Center (UAC) performance have therefore been processes, greater process reliability,
because of its ease of use and reliability. transformed. higher data throughput, seamless
integration, and higher production.
Theoverall result is an increase in profits.
“Stonebranch implementation was fast “In our prior environment, workload
and smooth,” says Marco Caesar, a data automation system failures occurred about
warehouse manager at Groupon. 90 times a year and took about 20 minutes
to fix each time,” says Tibelius.
“It took the experienced Stonebranch team
Mikhail Tibelius
only three days to deploy the solution, “Stonebranch has eliminated failures to
Data Warehouse Manager,
compared to 1 month for SOS Berlin. The date. That saves us more than 30 hours
GROUPON
solution is highly intuitive, and we did a year in unplanned downtime and staff
not need training. With a 10 times faster remediation work.”
“In our prior environment,
deployment and less training than our prior
workload automation system
solution, we avoided significant costs.“ Key processes now execute as needed.
failures occurred about 90
“Our performance is optimal,” Caesar
times a year. Stonebranch has
explains. “We have fraud detection
Results: Return on processes that are time-sensitive, and as
eliminated failures to date.
That saves us 30 hours a year
Automation* a public company, we have to gather and
in unplanned downtime and
exchange sensitive data in our month-end
staff remediation work.“
Groupon now uses Stonebranch UAC to closing. We count on the resilience of UAC
automate, integrate and manage workflows and its ability to execute modified reruns to
from any web-enabled device. protect us against bottlenecks.”
ABOUT
“The Stonebranch interface makes Groupon was also very impressed with the STONEBRANCH
workflows highly visual and easy to fast, professional support provided by the
understand, so that they are much easier to Stonebranch team, Caesar adds. Both the
create without having to use XML, as in our support and the solution have transformed Stonebranch builds
prior solution,” says Caesar. Groupon for the better: “At our company, dynamic IT automation
Stonebranch Universal Automation Center solutions that transform
“We are able to create workflows 10 times has become essential and irreplaceable,” business IT environments
faster now, and we can include everyone he says. from simple IT task
in the process. Coding or scipt experience automation into
is no longer needed, a huge advantage for sophisticated, real-
us.“ time business service
automation, helping
In addition, says Mikhail Tibelius, Groupon organizations achieve the
was able to save approx. $11,000 highest possible Return
on hardware costs by switching to on Automation.
Stonebranch, and now uses five fewer
servers, due to the intelligent architecture Using Stonebranch’s
of the solution. simple, modern and
secure IT automation
platform, enterprises can
seamlessly orchestrate
workloads and data
across technology stacks
and ecosystems.
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