Explore OCI in-depth with Technical Case Studies

kompany delivers regulatory solutions 3X faster with OCI’s modern lakehouse

kompany enables their clients to automate and transform anti–money laundering compliance into competitive advantages. Their IT team was looking for an easy-to-use, next-generation data lakehouse to automate process flows for data ingestion from a wide range of sources quickly and efficiently. To achieve their cloud migration goals, kompany implemented a cloud native solution on OCI. Their IT team can now load any type of data from a wide range of sources, store it in their data warehouse or data lake, and leverage easy-to-use automation to transform, visualize, and analyze it using a single source of truth. kompany leveraged the following services:

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Integration
• Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse
• Oracle Analytics Cloud
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage
• Oracle Identity and Access Management

• Reduced costs by 70%
• Achieved a 2X return on investment in 12 months
• Delivered new analytics 3X faster
• Automated their data pipeline without coding

Based on their success running their platform on OCI, kompany plans to triple the number of users by the end of the year and expand usage to seven other departments.

Now Optics taps Oracle’s artificial intelligence services for insights that improve customer experience

Now Optics is a national eyeglass retailer in the United States spanning more than 20 states. With their business expanding, the company had accumulated a large volume of data but had no tangible way to reap its benefits to optimize the business and expand into new offerings. Now Optics turned to Oracle Cloud and was able to improve their customer engagement and experience by using various OCI AI services. The company can now identify the top issues that their customers feel strongly about to decide what actions to prioritize. Thanks to OCI, Now Optics has achieved the following results:

• Automated the processing of customer feedback
• Improved business efficiency and reduced costs
• Increased customer satisfaction
• Converted unstructured textual context to structured context

Now Optics plans to further use OCI to flag various eye diseases such as glaucoma, diabetes, and cancer by only using pictures of the retina and eye.

SailGP processes 240K data points per second on OCI

SailGP is an international sailing league in which teams compete by sailing high-performance F50 catamarans around the world. With cloud technology in mind, SailGP wanted a provider that could help them better process data in real time to create better analytics and competitive advantages. SailGP’s main goal was to optimize both performance and fan experience. To achieve these goals, SailGP leveraged Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Streaming and Oracle Stream Analytics to process, analyze, and stream data during each race using sophisticated correlation patterns, data enrichment, and machine learning. SailGP enhanced their analytics with the following OCI services:

• OCI Streaming
• Oracle Stream Analytics
• Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage
• Oracle MySQL Database service
• Oracle Identity and Access Management
• Oracle Cloud Guard
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure GoldenGate

• Analyze more than 240,000 data points collected from 800 sensors in seconds
• Transfer data from boats to Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse at an average batch size of 20,000 messages, sent every 500 milliseconds
• Enhance the SailGP app by providing racing metrics in real time to crews and fans worldwide
• Detect anomalies and proactively manage the boat’s moving parts

In the future, SailGP plans to use OCI services such as AI and Oracle APEX to further enhance their customer experience and analytics capabilities.

Mutual Materials uses OCI to meet a 30% increase in demand

Mutual Materials is a manufacturer of building bricks, blocks, pavers, and stone slabs. Now the largest supplier of masonry and hardscape products in the Pacific Northwest, Mutual Materials has facilities in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. As the demand in hardscape sales skyrocketed, the company needed a faster and more reliable way to process orders, increase production, and ship their finished products to customers. To scale their infrastructure to meet increased demand, Mutual Materials partnered with Doyensys to migrate to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. This partnership enabled a rapid lift and shift of legacy systems into the cloud and the implementation of a scalable IT solution. The following OCI products were used:

• OCI virtual machines
• Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes
• Virtual cloud networks (VCNs)
• OCI Load Balancing
• OCI Block Volumes
• Oracle Data Guard
• Oracle E-Business Suite
• Oracle Customer Experience (CX)

• Saw an immediate 15% to 20% boost in application speed
• Increased year-over-year sales by nearly 20%
• Experienced zero downtime despite a 30% jump in orders
• Improved operational efficiencies to help drive up average order sizes

Overall, Mutual Materials saw improved productivity, reduced costs, and unconstrained scalability.

retraced deploys sustainability platform on OCI blockchain, improves sales by 400%

retraced is a leading sustainability management platform provider based out of Germany. The company enables their customers to ensure that they’re only using materials that have been manufactured using certifiably sustainable production methods. To build their cloud native platform, retraced wanted a technology environment that offered simplicity in operations, autonomous and managed services, and significant cost savings. After evaluating multiple cloud providers, retraced chose to run their platform on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. retraced leveraged the following OCI services:

• Oracle Blockchain Platform
• Oracle Autonomous JSON Database
• Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse
• Autonomous Transaction Processing
• Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute
• Oracle Analytics
• OCI Storage

• Achieved 400% growth in sales
• Increased traffic by 750% in 2021
• Went from project start to launch in less than 12 months

With the use of blockchain on OCI, retraced has been able to track sustainability information more accurately, which in turn has helped the company build trust with current and future clients.

ETC achieves 300% performance improvement and increased efficiency with OCI

ETC is a leading US intelligent transportation systems and smart mobility provider, developing and delivering solutions for tolling, congestion management, urban mobility, and other transportation needs. With its riteSuite SaaS technology in mind, ETC wanted to reduce time to market, database maintenance, capital expenditure, and downtime all while setting up a cloud-based disaster recovery environment that satisfied its business continuity requirements. After evaluation, ETC recognized Oracle—with its high I/O storage and high-bandwidth networking capabilities—as the optimal cloud provider for its technical and organizational needs. ETC used the following OCI products as the backbone for back-office solutions:

• Oracle Exadata Cloud Service
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Block Volumes
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute
• Site-to-Site VPN
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Logging
• Oracle Marketplace

• 200%–300% performance improvement
• 90% time savings from reduced infrastructure management
• Replaced 90% of legacy infrastructure
• Lowered total cost of ownership
• Improved scalability, reliability, disaster recovery, maintenance, and capacity

By migrating major workloads to OCI, ETC realized significant efficiencies in long-term maintenance, cost savings, performance improvement, and infrastructure management.

HNI modernizes its technology stack with OCI and Flexagon

HNI is a leading manufacturer of workplace furnishings. Like other manufacturers, HNI faced challenges such as increased demand volatility, rising supply chain costs, and customers that expected instant delivery. To better serve its customers and increase efficiency, HNI utilized an array of OCI services and FlexDeploy, a DevOps platform from Flexagon for end-to-end software development and delivery. HNI leveraged the following OCI and Flexagon services:

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• Flexagon FlexDeploy
• Oracle E-Business Suite
• Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC)
• Oracle Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• OCI FastConnect

• Achieved a 50% reduction in development costs
• Improved project delivery time by 50%, improving its time to market
• Reduced deployment time by 60X
• Increased developer productivity by 90%
• Reduced deployment-related errors by 98% and decreased support by 2 hours a night

HNI improved agility and efficiency by using cloud technologies from Oracle and Flexagon.

Gadget Software moves cloud native platform from AWS to OCI, increasing developer efficiency

Gadget Software offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for manufacturers to provide an optimized self-service support solution. The company's AI transforms instructions into intuitive, easy-to-follow information. With several gaps in its previous AWS environment, Gadget Software needed a cloud provider that offered speed, agility, high availability, and automation of manual processes. As a result, Gadget Software migrated its three core technologies onto OCI to reduce costs, free up DevOps resources, and improve scalability. Gadget Software used the following OCI services:

• Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE)
• Oracle MySQL Database service
• Oracle bare metal shapes
• OCI virtual cloud network
• Internet gateway
• NAT gateway
• OCI Logging
• OCI Auditing

• Enabled its development team to focus on high-value activities
• Automated management scripts for relational databases
• Reduced capital and operating costs
• Scaling on demand by expanding its compute as needed

With OCI’s capabilities and engineering guidance, Gadget Software is well-equipped to meet the needs of its customers.

Integra LifeSciences enhances multicloud capability with OCI, achieving 90% time savings

Integra LifeSciences is a leading global provider of regenerative and neurosurgical devices and technologies, serving surgeons and hospitals worldwide. With the help of a proof-to-pilot (P2P), Integra migrated more than 140 systems, across environments for development, quality assurance, production, disaster recovery, and special projects. The following list includes the relevant Oracle Cloud services and software Integra utilized:

• Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure Interconnect
• Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS)
• Oracle Exadata Cloud service
• Oracle Active Data Guard
• Oracle Cloud Observability and Management Platform
• OCI Logging
• OCI Compute
• OCI Storage

• Enhanced multicloud strategies with OCI-Azure Interconnect by moving data and services across OCI and Azure with greater efficiency and reduced latency
• 87% improved report run time from an hour and 45 minutes to 13 minutes
• 90% time savings achieved with in-memory database options

With OCI, Integra has minimized risk, improved visibility throughout its entire supply chain, and strategically positioned itself for higher growth.

UniQreate scales intelligent data extraction product on OCI and saves 20% monthly

UniQreate is a leading data extraction automation company. UniQreate helps customers gain insights from their unstructured data by utilizing AI learning systems, intelligent workflows, and web-enabled interfaces. With its platform, UniQreate helps business users manage their data needs with the most efficient workflows and the least intrusive interactions. Needing stronger compute power and more block storage, UniQreate migrated to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) for higher performance at a lower price, and reduced overall monthly costs by 20%. UniQreate used a portfolio of the OCI services listed below:

• OCI Bare Metal Compute
• Oracle Virtual Cloud Network
• OCI Object Storage
• OCI File Storage
• Oracle Identity and Access Management
• Oracle MySQL Database Service

• 20% monthly savings in infrastructure cost
• Easily scaled the volume and variety of different use cases with ease
• Migrated the entire setup to OCI in four days
• Provided maximum availability and uptime
• Efficiently maintained separate environments in the same region, helping maintain higher control

By migrating to OCI, UniQreate was able to achieve a cost-efficient, seamless, and robust infrastructure for its massive amounts of data extraction.