MidAmerican Energy Company, the largest utility company in Iowa, serves more than 706,000 electric customers and more than 687,000 natural gas customers.

Over the years the company has undergone several mergers and acquisitions. With each transition, the company has ensured that its traditional strengths of providing superior customer service and maintaining strong customer relationships were further enhanced and improved.

Archiving is an essential part of the M&A process. MidAmerican chose IBM® Optim™ Data Growth Solution to help with the task because it includes database archiving capabilities that scale across applications, databases, operating systems and hardware platforms.

Deploying IBM® Optim™ has benefited MidAmerican in several ways:

• Strengthened support for business expansion by automating archived capabilities to manage data growth
• Achieved stability and reliability in the production environment and improved service levels
• Achieved disk savings by archiving production data to realise equal reductions in replicated test environments, as well as image copy and work file spaces
• Deferred the cost of hardware upgrades, while serving an increasing customer base