Tribunal de Justiça de Santa Catarina Improves Application Performance by 90% with Data Storage Architecture That Is Engineered to Work Together
 
 

Tribunal de Justiça de Santa Catarina Improves Application Performance by 90% with Data Storage Architecture That Is Engineered to Work Together

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The Tribunal de Justiça de Santa Catarina (Santa Catarina Court of Justice), the judicial branch in Santa Catarina state, works to improve delivery of judicial services in the region. The court maintains records for 2 million legal cases, and it has updated its IT structure to more efficiently manage open cases. Many of its files have been digitized, and new cases are now initiated in digital format to improve processing and facilitate authorized internal and external access to them.

Document digitalization and the use of digital certification led to a four-fold increase in the size of the court’s database, resulting in performance problems. To resolve this issue, the court migrated its core applications—including systems for legal case management, judicial deposit financial control, its jurisprudence database, and Diário da Justiça Eletrônica (Electronic Justice Daily) publication―to Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-2 Half Rack.

With this implementation, the court improved application performance by 90% and reduced costs of hardware and management by 30%,when  compared to its legacy infrastructure. In addition, it reduced the time needed to generate reports on the productivity of the court’s 450 judges, from two hours to 20 seconds. Further, Oracle Exadata Database Machine made it easier and faster for judges, prosecutors, and government officials to access important case information.

 
 

 
 

Challenges

A word from Tribunal de Justiça de Santa Catarina (Santa Catarina Court of Justice)

  • “Oracle Exadata Database Machine ensures superior performance and streamlines managing the data environment as compared to traditional IT models. We are very satisfied with our new agile, robust, and scalable infrastructure that has enabled us to reduce costs and improve performance.” – Renato Chierighini, Data Administration Division Chief, Tribunal de Justiça de Santa Catarina (Santa Catarina Court of Justice)

  • Improve data environment performance, which had experienced slowdowns and periods of unavailability for end users, such as judges, prosecutors, bailiffs, court officers, and external counsel
  • Simplify the court’s data management infrastructure to enhance response time for core applications, including its systems for legal case management, judicial deposit financial contrrol, daily journal publication, and its jurisprudence database
  • Expand storage capacity to absorb data volume growth resulting from case file digitalization and the use of digital certification

Solutions

Oracle Product and Services

  • Worked with Oracle Partner Samaia IT to deploy Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-2 Half Rack, acquiring an agile, robust, and scalable infrastructure to resolve database performance problems
  • Created an integrated data environment—including a server, database, and storage—with a single management point to optimize and enable proactive IT management, while improving IT team productivity 
  • Expanded data storage capacity to support database growth, which had quadrupled in recent years to 4 terabytes due to case digitization and digital certification
  • Ensured 30% savings, compared with cost of expanding storage capacity and performing maintenance on traditional servers and storage over the next five years
  • Reduced the time required to generate reports on the productivity of the court’s 450 judges from two hours to 20 seconds —without changing any code
  • Improved response time for core applications by 90%
  • Provided high case availability for consultation by hundreds of external users, such as lawyers, prosecutors, other court officers, government officials, and the community at large

Why Oracle

“Oracle Exadata Database Machine ensured a 30% savings in acquisition and maintenance costs for the data management platform, compared to the legacy storage and server model we had been using. Our technical team will never give up Oracle Exadata Database Machine. We are very satisfied with it, and, in our opinion, it is the best solution on the market,” said Renato Chierighini, Data Administration Division Chief, Tribunal de Justiça de Santa Catarina.

Partner

Tribunal de Justiça de Santa Catarina worked with Oracle Partner Samaia IT to implement Oracle Exadata Database Machine.

“The Samaia IT team was very committed to making everything work right. They went beyond what the contract required. Samaia IT was a true partner,” said Renato Chierighini, data administration division chief, Tribunal de Justiça de Santa Catarina (Santa Catarina Court of Justice).