Oracle Customer Success—Emerald Associates

Emerald Associates Improves Business Performance with Oracle Database Appliance

Oracle Database Appliance provides all of the hardware, networking, and storage technologies in a single device, which simplifies maintenance, and there is peace of mind knowing that the components will seamlessly work together to provide stability for mission-critical applications.

— Paul Jardin, Vice President of Technology, Emerald Associates

Emerald Associates Deploys High-Availability Database Appliance Platform to Power Mission-Critical Applications for Key Customers

Emerald Associates is an Oracle Primavera Platinum Partner and a team of professionals that provide project management solutions to a diverse client base. The company worked with two of its clients—a North American oil and gas company as well as a chemical company—leveraging Oracle Database Appliance to support mission-critical applications. The Oracle configurations provide each company with the reliability and performance that they needed to effectively manage daily operations.

Business Challenge

Enable one of Emerald Associates’ chemical company customers to more efficiently coordinate highly complex, expensive capital projects around the world by implementing an infrastructure to run its mission-critical enterprise project management application
Help a North American oil and gas company deploy a disaster-proof, reliable, high-performing solution to power a mission-critical application that manages the daily operations of turnaround projects in excess of $15 million

Results

Ensured a reliable and highly available solution for the chemical company by deploying Oracle Primavera on Oracle Database Appliance, helping it to keep all projects across the globe on track
Enabled Emerald Associates’ customer to accomplish its two main goals—ensuring application reliability as well as not deploying a highly complex solution—with Oracle Database Appliance’s integrated, engineered technology

Reduced IT costs for the chemical company as it consolidated many disparate databases and third-party systems on a single platform—ensuring savings in both license and maintenance fees
Implemented Oracle Database Appliance to consolidate and ensure a disaster-proof solution for an oil and gas company’s Oracle Primavera application, ultimately inspiring the company to purchase nearly 20 additional units to support other enterprise applications, and enabling the company to effectively manage the daily operations of turnaround projects in excess of $15 million
Saved costs by reducing software licenses that are tied to core processors by partitioning the device using a virtual implementation
Decreased data recovery time from a day and a half to approximately 30 to 60 minutes by leveraging Oracle Database Appliance’s flashback feature
Enabled the oil and gas company to keep Oracle Database Appliance up and running for three years with zero downtime, even during maintenance
Streamlined preventative maintenance since Oracle Database Appliance automatically creates a service request ticket when memory is low

Hands down, Oracle Database Appliance is the best infrastructure to deploy and manage Oracle Primavera. Not only does Oracle Database Appliance provide the fastest implementation timeframe, but it is also the best technology for batch data uploads. Other technologies just cannot match it.

— Paul Jardin, Vice President of Technology, Emerald Associates

Execution

With deep expertise in both the Oracle Database Appliance and Oracle Primavera, Emerald was the ideal partner to help both the chemical and oil and gas companies deploy Oracle Primavera on Oracle Database Appliance. Emerald offered support services for Oracle Primavera and used its expertise to help tune the devices for optimal performance. The company also provides Oracle Primavera training and a wide range of tools to increase the efficiency of turnaround projects.

About Emerald Associates

Headquarters

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Emerald Associates

Established in 1995, Emerald Associates was founded on the premise that automation was the key to improved project delivery. Twenty years later, Emerald has developed an arsenal of productivity tools to optimize the Oracle Primavera suite to facilitate faster deployments, user adoption, and cost-effective system management. Emerald is Oracle University Certified, a specialist in Primavera training, and a Registered Education Provider through Project Management Institute.

Oracle Solutions Used

Oracle Database Appliance

Engineered Systems

Published: Dec 18, 2017