Colegio de Bachilleres boosts system performance with Oracle IaaS and PaaS
Summary
Colegio de Bachilleres standardizes tech infrastructure on a single solution, saves US$210,000, and enhances data security with Oracle.
Colegio de Bachilleres is a secondary school administrated by the Mexican federal government as part of the Secretariat of Public Education.
Over the years, Colegio de Bachilleres invested large sums of public resources in new equipment such as servers, databases, software updates, and maintenance to keep its systems properly running for its students and teachers. Since expenses with maintenance and the purchase of new hardware and software were getting too high, Colegio de Bachilleres’ IT team started looking for an integrated solution that could meet its needs at a lower cost in the medium/long term.
Business challenges
Improve the platform’s performance to meet the school’s increasing demand and a high volume of simultaneous access to Colegio de Bachilleres’ systems (school administration and management, certification exams, library and educational virtual resources, etc.)
Reduce expenses with tech infrastructure maintenance, new purchases, applications updates, and license fees
Ensure that the institution’s systems would keep working even under adverse conditions such as electrical failures, fire, demonstrations, and natural disasters
Strengthen data security standards
With Oracle IaaS and PaaS, we have a seamless, robust infrastructure that increased our processing capacity, improved our performance by 40%, and enhanced our coherent security, while meeting the demand for an increasing volume of simultaneous access to our online system. It also saved us US$210,000 in tech updates.
Noé Reynoso Rojas
Director of Statistics and Information and Communication Technologies, Colegio de Bachilleres
Results
Standardized the school’s tech infrastructure on a single solution, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Dedicated Compute Classic, and strengthened data security by facilitating maintenance and technical support
Saved US$210,000 in expenses with a much-needed tech infrastructure modernization— Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Dedicated Compute Classic costs 20% of the total calculated for an entire tech infrastructure refreshment and eliminated the need for additional operational costs such as electricity, maintenance and security costs
Improved the IT team’s response time on requests for adjustments and new platform features by 40%, as it is much simpler to work with a single, integrated infrastructure
Halved the time needed to develop new applications, since Oracle Cloud makes it much easier to expand processing and storage capacity—Colegio de Bachilleres previously had to send extra budget requests to the government for new equipment purchasing
Allowed the company’s IT team to dedicate more time to innovation and new feature developments to improve the school’s services
Expedited user activities on the system by 30%, while eliminating availability errors—students and teachers can access online data such as school management information and book availability much faster—which has drastically reduced the number of complaints on services offered by the school
Enhanced data security, while avoiding additional expenses associated with the rental of an external equipment room to ensure data security and access in case of adverse conditions such as natural disasters or employee strikes, since the institution’s infrastructure now runs on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Dedicated Compute Classic
Partners
Refreshing our entire technology infrastructure would have been more complex, time-consuming, and expensive than migrating to Oracle Cloud—and since we are financed by federal resources, the budget impact was a crucial factor in our decision. With Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Dedicated Compute Classic, we now have one of the best worldwide solutions at an affordable cost.
Noé Reynoso Rojas
Director of Statistics and Information and Communication Technologies, Colegio de Bachilleres