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Here are some samples of the results that Hotsos customers have achieved. We think they're spectacular. Judge for yourself:

Icelandic financial institution

Reduced key query in a daily batch job from 6½ hours to less than 11 seconds with first use of Hotsos Profiler.

...from 6½ hours to less than 11 seconds.

City of Chandler, Arizona

Using Hotsos Profiler, spent less than one minute of analysis time to reduce the run-time of a 3-hour job to 43 seconds. The performance problem had evaded other tools.

...from 3 hours to 43 seconds.

Fortune 100 manufacturer

DBA left our class on Thursday and by Friday afternoon had reduced the response time of a query from 44 minutes to 0.41 seconds. Student claimed that Hotsos education "completely changed his view of tuning the database."

...from 44 minutes to 0.41 seconds.

Mark Strickland, independent consultant

Using the Hotsos diagnostic method, consultant fixed an I/O configuration problem that reduced the run time of a conversion process that would have taken 23 days to just 5 hours.

...from 23 days to 5 hours.

Resort management company

In ½-day consulting visit, remedy identified in first run of the Hotsos Profiler more than doubled Oracle Payroll throughput after client spent 3+ months and over $40,000 (USD) on conventional "tuning".

...doubled Oracle Payroll throughput.

Convergys

Hotsos student identified a 2-minute fix that resulted in a system CPU capacity savings of 12 percent on the database server. While the optimized action was not identified by the user community as a response-time issue and the response time per execution was a little over one second, the frequency with which this query was run produced so much work for the database server that it consistently occupied a CPU.

...12% CPU savings.

Wyndham Hotels

In a ½-day consulting visit, Hotsos consultant used the Hotsos Profiler on a system that had been thoroughly analyzed with Precise i3, to reduce total workload by over 100 hours of processing time per day.

...100-hour daily CPU load reduction.

Fortune 100 software company

In an afternoon on-site seminar, Hotsos consultant reduced total workload on a new server by over 50 percent. Inefficiencies that were corrected in an afternoon had motivated the recent purchase of a new $25,000 (USD) hardware upgrade.

...50% system-wide workload reduction.

City of Ottawa

DBA left our classroom on Thursday and by Friday afternoon had reduced run times for two separate 1-hour batch jobs to 6 minutes each. Prior to the course, the company had invested over a month of labor into tuning the jobs.

...from 1 hour to 6 minutes.

Fortune 100 manufacturer

Novice performance analyst using Hotsos Profiler reduced run time of Oracle Applications month-end close process by 90 percent within first six weeks after training.

...90% reduction in month-end close processing time.