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Reducing Operational Costs and Ensuring Scalability: A Case Study of Oracle Retail and EBS Transformation to AWS Cloud

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Databases
Applicable Industries	Consumer Goods Retail
Applicable Functions	Maintenance Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Retail Store Automation Theft Detection
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	The client faced challenges such as lack of high availability for applications and databases, difficulty in scaling and handling traffic spikes and loads, the need to complete migration before the expiration of on-premises licenses, lack of robust security with on-premises infrastructure, ineffective management of cost and resources, and the need for upgrading OS, database, and server versions along with migration. Read More
About Customer	Metro Retail Stores Group is a leading operator of department stores and hypermarkets in the Visayas region, Philippines. It is the second largest supermarket operator in terms of retail sales value and has multiple store formats ranging from department stores to hypermarkets. It was awarded 'Retailer of the Year' at the Outstanding Filipino Retailer Awards. Read More
Customer Name	Metro Retail Stores Group Read More
Solution	The solution involved migrating the operating system and EBS applications to the AWS system, managing traffic-related spikes, ensuring upgrades in the database and WebLogic for future upgrades, and implementing the ASM file system to optimize storage performance on AWS. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Databases

Applicable Industries

Consumer Goods

Retail

Applicable Functions

Maintenance

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Retail Store Automation

Theft Detection

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

The client faced challenges such as lack of high availability for applications and databases, difficulty in scaling and handling traffic spikes and loads, the need to complete migration before the expiration of on-premises licenses, lack of robust security with on-premises infrastructure, ineffective management of cost and resources, and the need for upgrading OS, database, and server versions along with migration.

About Customer

Metro Retail Stores Group is a leading operator of department stores and hypermarkets in the Visayas region, Philippines. It is the second largest supermarket operator in terms of retail sales value and has multiple store formats ranging from department stores to hypermarkets. It was awarded 'Retailer of the Year' at the Outstanding Filipino Retailer Awards.

Customer Name

Metro Retail Stores Group

Solution

The solution involved migrating the operating system and EBS applications to the AWS system, managing traffic-related spikes, ensuring upgrades in the database and WebLogic for future upgrades, and implementing the ASM file system to optimize storage performance on AWS.

Benefit #1	The operational costs were reduced by 50% with the migration to AWS cloud. The cloud migration provided 99% uptime with no risk of failure. The operating system and EBS application on AWS are running with $0 up-front cost. The customer achieved optimal cost and resource management with scalability as per requirement. The customer also benefited from lower infrastructure costs through Amazon CloudWatch metrics and simplified management with no additional monitoring tool in the cloud.

Benefit #1

The operational costs were reduced by 50% with the migration to AWS cloud. The cloud migration provided 99% uptime with no risk of failure. The operating system and EBS application on AWS are running with $0 up-front cost. The customer achieved optimal cost and resource management with scalability as per requirement. The customer also benefited from lower infrastructure costs through Amazon CloudWatch metrics and simplified management with no additional monitoring tool in the cloud.

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Reducing Operational Costs and Ensuring Scalability: A Case Study of Oracle Retail and EBS Transformation to AWS Cloud

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