Arrow ECS Sp. z o.o. Deploys Hardware Environment to Minimize Customer Technology Adoption Risk
 
 

Arrow ECS Sp. z o.o. Deploys Hardware Environment to Minimize Customer Technology Adoption Risk

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Arrow ECS Sp. z.o.o. is an Oracle, value-added distributor (VAD)—providing support for Oracle partners and customers in the areas of knowledge transfer, marketing, and sales support. Arrow ECS in Poland is part of a global organization awarded as the top Oracle VAD in 2010. Together with Oracle Poland, Arrow ECS has built an Exadata competency center, which enables it to verify Exadata performance, working as a platform beneath a customer’s environments.

 
 

 
 

Challenges

A word from Arrow ECS Sp. z o.o.

  • “In our Exadata Competency Center, customers can experience and calculate Oracle Exadata’s potential business impact. We can prove a database environment consolidation powered by Oracle Exadata may become the basis for enhancing competitive advantage, delivering a 15- to 20-fold increase in performance and reducing IT costs.” – Tomasz Iwanciw, Product Development Director, Arrow ECS Sp. z o.o.

  • Enable Oracle customers—from all industries—to experience optimal performance in online transaction processing and warehousing environments
  • Provide best-in-class infrastructure for database consolidation and cost efficiency optimization
  • Enable Central European Oracle partners—including independent software vendors (ISVs) and integrators—to verify optimal performance for new Oracle Exadata solutions
  • Help Central European ISVs test and certify their applications on Exadata-based environments

Solutions

Oracle Product and Services

  • Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-2
  • Constructed an Exadata Competency Center in Krakow, Poland, which is equipped with an Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-2 environment
  • Enabled partners and customers to test Exadata live with their own data and workloads
  • Offered one-day Exadata demonstration shows in the Exadata competency center and on customers’ sites
  • Worked with Oracle presales team to deliver professional proof of concept services
  • Demonstrated to four customers in the IT and banking sectors an unprecedented 15- to 20-fold increase in their systems’ performance
  • Identified business application bottlenecks by accelerating input and output speeds to a level where other application performance issues are easily recognizable