Explore OCI in-depth with Technical Case Studies
Oracle’s technical case studies dive deeper into real-world customer deployments. Discover how OCI is helping customers successfully deliver 24x7 operations using geographically distributed architectures, elastically scale, and optimally secure applications. OCI engineering works with customers to move from idea to execution rapidly, defining the implementation path, and introducing techniques and best practices to accelerate customer deployment.
Featured OCI technical case studies
kompany enables their clients to automate and transform anti–money laundering compliance into competitive advantages. The OCI Lakehouse enabled them to accelerate their pace of innovation while decreasing costs by 70%. Now they can easily scale to ingest and understand more data while making better decisions using AI-powered predictions—without having to learn machine learning (ML).
Now Optics is a national eyeglass retailer in the United States with stores in more than 20 states. Using the sentiment analysis functionality in OCI Language, Now Optics converted unstructured textual content to structured content. Managers can now analyze data, visualize it to gain actionable insights, and make changes to the business.
SailGP, the world’s most exciting racing sport on water, relies on OCI to deliver real-time data to the league’s national teams, broadcast partners, and global fans. OCI helps SailGP’s teams optimize performance and give fans a thrilling new experience.
Explore OCI technical case studies
Technical case studies highlight the customer’s goals and the breadth and depth of their technical solution on OCI. Each technical case study features all applicable OCI products used, the customer’s cloud migration path, OCI solution architecture, and the results of their cloud transformation.
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.
Mynet delivers exceptional mobile gaming experience with OCI, cuts costs by 80%
Mynet offers mobile game services by acquiring an existing game title, then redesigning and repackaging it to reach a broader audience. This business model enhances the overall profitability and revenue for Mynet. The company migrated to OCI for superior performance at a lower price and reduced overall costs by about 80%. Mynet uses services from other cloud providers depending on game characteristics, in support of its multicloud strategy. The company delivers an exceptional mobile gaming experience utilizing a portfolio of OCI services listed below:
- OCI Compute
- OCI Block Volumes
- OCI Object Storage
- OCI File Storage
- OCI Flexible Load Balancer
- Outbound OCI Data Transfer
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Health Checks
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Email Delivery
- Oracle Cloud Functions
- OCI Internet Gateway
- About 80% reduced infrastructure cost
- Cost savings of over $1M in twelve months
- 6X improved processing time for a title—from about an hour to just 10 minutes
- Specific game titles running automatically and at scale without human intervention
- A unified view of cloud security posture across OCI tenancy
By deploying its mobile gaming experience on OCI, Mynet achieved notable improvements in overall game performance.
MESTEC launches robust multicloud strategy with Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure Interconnect
MESTEC is the world's first cloud-based SaaS manufacturing solution provider. It offers manufacturing execution system (MES) and advanced planning and scheduling (APS) software to manufacturers looking to improve efficiencies in the critical aspects of the manufacturing lifecycle. The company deployed a multicloud strategy leveraging solutions from Oracle and Microsoft. It relies on Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing database connected to an Azure front end through the Oracle-Azure Interconnect to deliver solutions that boost overall manufacturing processes without customization and typical upfront costs. The company utilized the following cloud services from Oracle:
- Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing
- Oracle Data Guard
- Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure Interconnect
- OCI Object Storage
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnect
- OCI VPN Connect
- OCI Dynamic Routing Gateway (DRG)
- Reduced labor and infrastructure costs by half compared to its on-premises environment
- Ran manufacturing workloads up to 600% faster with half as many CPUs
- Achieved a more secure and 100% compliant environment
- Implemented a diverse set of manufacturing environments quickly and reliably
- Committed higher-availability SLAs to its customers
With OCI, MESTEC optimized their manufacturing lifecycle and scaled to new infrastructure resources rapidly.
Archaeological Park of Pompeii taps OCI to reopen after COVID-19 lockdown
Following the pandemic, historical site Pompeii reopened using the MyPompeii mobile app, a solution built entirely on OCI with cloud native and API-first principles in mind. Pompeii used these OCI services, SDKs, and frameworks:
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Oracle Blockchain
- Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes
- Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing
- Oracle Autonomous Database
- Oracle Functions
- Container Registry (OCIR)
- Oracle Spatial Analytics
- A real-time heat map that enables information for points of interest, facilities, and social distancing
- Complete integration with online ticket sales application TicketOne, so visitors can scan a QR code on their tickets and access all the application’s content
- Visitor feedback through the application, certified through blockchain
The application has been downloaded by 20,000+ visitors in 2021.
Oracle Cloud helps accelerate COVID-19 testing in the US
In the early days of the pandemic, Oracle Consulting built a suite of public health management applications to help collect and analyze the data necessary for government health organizations and the medical community to understand the virus and its spread. Counties using the platform include Tarrant County, the third most populous county in the state of Texas. The platform not only helps Tarrant County’s testing facilities operate more effectively, but also provides valuable information to keep communities safe. These are the services used:
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Autonomous Transaction Processing
- Oracle APEX
- Oracle Functions
- Oracle API Gateway
- Provide an online form and categorize each respondent’s risk as high, medium, or low
- Schedule appointments for people most likely to contract the coronavirus
- Allow patients to check in using a mobile app and QR code
- Allow patients to check out and provide the necessary data to testing partners
- Make the results from the testing partners available to patients
- Build customized dashboards with augmented and predictive analytics, data visualization, and intelligent insights
The platform provides Tarrant County with valuable information to keep its communities safe and COVID-19 cases down.
Cloud native and DevSecOps at scale with Capgemini and Oracle Cloud
Capgemini has been an Oracle Platinum Partner for over two decades, helping customers with projects such as critical migrations and implementations. When a customer approached Capgemini with aging legacy systems, business change requirements, and strict deadlines enforced by a government directive (PSD2), Capgemini turned to Oracle Cloud. Capgemini delivered a rapidly developed, cloud native platform using these products:
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Oracle Identity
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage
- Oracle API Manager
- Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Registry
- Achieved design to launch in 6 months
- Scaled its testing to 200% of expected maximum user concurrency
- Measured a response time averaging 77ms
- Delivered the PSD2 portal and PSD2 APIs on time and launched the debt register API a week ahead of schedule
The platform serves 300,000 API requests per day.
AgroScout improves development and DevOps with Oracle Cloud Native Services
AgroScout, a startup in the agritech sector, leveraged Oracle Cloud Native Services to migrate its application to Kubernetes and deliver an automated deployment pipeline. The AgroScout development team can easily manage its application, streamline its CI/CD platform, and achieve better performance on OCI. Facilities operate more effectively, but also provide valuable information to keep communities safe. These are the services used:
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE)
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Registry
- Oracle Cloud Native Services
- Transition from a static application to a dynamic microservice-based app
- Cluster deployment time decreased from 23 hours to 2 minutes
- New version deployment reduced from 24 hours to minutes
- Enhanced ability to query thousands of images in seconds
AgroScout’s machine learning technology relies on OCI’s GPU instances proving the speed & performance that machine-learning workloads demand.
