Explore OCI in-depth with Technical Case Studies

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 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 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 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 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 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.

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.

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.

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, 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.