Unicoop Firenze Upgrades Hardware, Accelerating Distribution Chain Data Processing to Enhance Executive Decision-Making
 
 

Unicoop Firenze Upgrades Hardware, Accelerating Distribution Chain Data Processing to Enhance Executive Decision-Making

  • Oracle Customer:  Unicoop Firenze
    Location:  Firenze, Italy
    Industry:  Retail
    Employees:  8,500
    Annual Revenue:  $1 to $5 Billion

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Unicoop Firenze is the largest cooperative company in Italy, with more than 1 million members. The company manages a sales network of 120 stores in Tuscany and Rome, operating under the Coop and Doc brands. Unicoop Firenze’s mission is to provide its members and consumers with high quality goods and services at the best market price by promoting its cooperative values of mutuality, solidarity, and socio-economic development.

To enhance real-time decision-making, company executives wanted to ensure that they had timely and accessible cash flow and sales data from Unicoop Firenze’s stores. The organization looked to Oracle and Oracle Partner Bridge Consulting Srl for a solution. 

By deploying Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Unicoop has significantly reduced the time it takes executives to pull financial data from its 120 stores and compile reports, enabling faster and more informed decisions. In addition, the new environment enables Unicoop Firenze to increase the number of simultaneous jobs it runs during night-batch processing, from 5 to 30, while reducing overall IT costs.

 
 

 
 

Challenges

A word from Unicoop Firenze

  • “Oracle Exadata Database Machine enables us to improve and accelerate data processing within our IT environment, specifically our business intelligence solution. We can now quickly provide our executives with the data they need to make strategic business decisions regarding Unicoop Firenze’s 120 stores.” – Filippo Cecchi, ICT Manager, Unicoop Firenze

  • Improve the scalability and performance of the company’s business intelligence environment to effectively support managing its network of cooperative retail stores
  • Reduce time to process business intelligence data, such as sales and cash flow, from Unicoop Firenze’s 120 stores to aid company executives in making time-sensitive business decisions and improving operations
  • Reduce IT costs by consolidating and managing data on multiple compression tiers
  • Enhance system scalability to handle an influx of new services and applications

Solutions

Oracle Product and Services

  • Deployed Oracle Exadata Database Machine and reduced the time it takes to process data, such as sales and cash flow, coming from 120 stores—a process that previously took all night, slowing business processes.
  • Enabled company financial officers to compile reports seven times faster by processing concurrent operations, data charging, and queries during the night-batch process  
  • Optimized night data scheduling sequences, which enabled Unicoop Firenze to run 30 simultaneous jobs compared to just 5 concurrent jobs in the legacy environment―reducing costs and gaining the ability to complete batch jobs faster
  • Accelerated the user interactivity function and eliminated the previous waiting break  
  • Increased system scalability, the number of applications it runs, and the number of services offered
  • Worked with Oracle Partner Bridge Consulting Srl to implement Oracle Exadata Database Machine, due to its success with conducting comparative tests and the solution’s cost-effective performance, specifically for business intelligence environments

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