Oracle Database Consolidation: Industry-Specific Use Cases

Several companies have common concerns like why do we need to consolidate databases with Oracle?

However, Oracle offers multiple reasons to choose its Database Consolidation platform. In this blog, we will discover the journeys of different companies that have successfully transformed their businesses with Oracle services.

Entel is the most popular Latin American Telecommunication company in Chile and Peru. They wanted to increase the Oracle Database capacity and performance for crucial applications. At the same time, they needed to improve data security and control costs.

According to Helder Branco, the head of IT operations, Entel has advanced digital transformation by migrating more than 30 databases to Oracle Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer and enhancing security with its self-securing functionalities.

Entel with Oracle

Entel has used Oracle Exadata for the past five years. They have also used Oracle Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer. Let’s discover what results they have achieved.

• It accelerated the performance of Oracle Database by 3x and improved the security.
• Oracle Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer offered self-securing functionality and helped to optimize the protection for critical network management and billing data.
• It offered machine learning-based functionalities, which helped its DBA and developers focus more on developing new applications for customers.
• It removed manual tuning, system, and database management.

National Roads and Motorists Association (NRMA) is among the seven motoring clubs in Australia. They work with 2.6 million members in Australia and New Zealand. NRMA offerings include multiple services such as roadside assistance, international driver’s licenses, and car reviews.

The legacy on-premises infrastructure is about to end, so NRMA has two options: a high-cost on-premises infrastructure upgrade or a faster, secure, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud platform. They realized that migrating to the cloud solution would improve customer experience and deliver faster decision-making.

NRMA with Oracle

When NRMA was looking for a cloud solution, they compared AWS and other services. As a result, they realized that Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offers more value for its cloud investments because of its cost benefits and higher flexibility.

NRMA managed critical membership and dispatched functions for roadside assistance with the help of Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Siebel CRM applications. They shifted Oracle E-Business Suite, Siebel applications, Oracle Identity and Access Management, Oracle SOA Suite, and consolidated six Oracle Database Appliances to Oracle Exadata Cloud Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (700 TB in total). Here are the outcomes.

• It reduced IT operational costs and enhanced stability and agility by provisioning Oracle Cloud Services on demand.
• It better aligns costs with business benefits through a pay-as-you-use consumption model that helps to shift capital expenditures to operational expenditures.
• NRMA used Oracle Integration Cloud to insert partner data for its Blue membership loyalty program. This helped increase partner sales and improve multiple customer services.
• It enabled NRMA for quick innovations with a flexible and secure infrastructure.
• The company is now more capable of fulfilling the requirements of customers and ongoing market conditions.

TIM Brasil is a telecommunication company that provides high-speed mobile and broadband services. Its services help more than 50 million citizens all over the country. CIO Auana stated that the company needs better customer service and sales processes instead of investing in customer-oriented innovation. Also, they wanted to improve the quality of services and products to attract customers.

They wanted to invest in innovation and customer experience while improving operational efficiency. As a solution, TIM Brasil needed to shift its on-premises infrastructure to the cloud for quick response to demand.

TIM Brasil with Oracle

TIM Brasil selected multi-cloud as a solution. They decided to take the benefits of OCI and Microsoft Azure by choosing Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure Interconnect. Let’s discover the results.

• Interconnect enabled TIM to run critical workloads on Oracle Exadata Database Service, Oracle Enterprise Database Service, and Oracle Cloud VMware Solution. At the same time, they can run SAP HANA and VDI workloads on Azure.
• Oracle helped TIM sustain its business in the upcoming years by providing the functionality to create highly innovative products, increase efficiency, and enhance customer experience.
• With Oracle, they got more business opportunities.
• It becomes easy to scale additional capacity as per the requirements.
• OCI API Gateway made it possible to interconnect the systems and services.
• After the migration, the time needed to handle customer service inquiries was reduced by 50% on average (and for some segments, the reduction was up to 65%).
• Migrating to the cloud offered a highly secure environment to protect customer data and business resilience. It also improved efficiency and focus.

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