Learn how Maritz improved EBS performance by 10X with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Keste.
No business can afford to experience internal or customer-facing disruptions, least of all an industry leader like Maritz. To prevent these types of problems and to set themself up well for the future, the company recently modernized and migrated their E-Business Suite to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
The story with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is that it’s better, cheaper and faster than what we had on-premises. We’re seeing jobs that used to take a couple hours to run, getting completed in minutes now on OCI.
- Ron Hunsaker, VP Enterprise Application Services, Maritz -
Why Move to the Cloud?
Maritz was growing, but as they got bigger their hardware got older. As ERP functions increased, the more their existing IT struggled to keep up. Processes got more complex, maintenance more difficult, and disaster recovery was…nearly a disaster. For a company focused on innovation, it was time to reinvent themselves.
Ron Hunsaker, Vice President of the Enterprise Application Services team at Maritz, made the decision to move to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to alleviate their current and pending challenges and selected Keste to help them migrate their infrastructure.
The Maritz Challenge.
Aging Hardware On-premises applications supported critical backoffice operations, but were running on aging Sun Microsystems hardware that struggled to keep up.
Overly Complicated Infrastructure Executing failovers for disaster recovery (DR) was overly cumbersome, often taking 72 hours to complete.
Skillset Shortage Key personnel with the expertise to maintain the database and Solaris OS that supported the legacy environment had announced their retirement.
On Prem Equipment With on-prem hardware, it was often difficult to do proper capacity planning for large projects or peak seasons, which led to limited ability to control infrastructure costs.
The Solution.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, the first cloud built specifically for the enterprise, delivers unmatched reliability, scalability, and performance for mission-critical databases, applications, and workloads.
Oracle E-Business Suite is an integrated set of business applications for automating customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP) and supply chain management (SCM) processes.
Oracle Database is a multi-model database management system commonly used for running online transaction processing (OLTP), data warehousing (DW) and mixed (OLTP & DW) database workloads.
Oracle Linux is a Linux distribution packaged and freely distributed by Oracle, available partially under the GNU General Public License since late 2006.
Oracle WebLogic Server 12c R2 is the industry leading application server for building and deploying enterprise Java EE applications.
See the Results.
Since migrating workloads to the cloud, Maritz has seen a 10X improvement in EBS performance.
The company has been able to reduce their Disaster Recovery window from 72 hours to 4 hours.
Concurrent financial processes that used to take 2 hours are now completed in 10 minutes.
Significantly reduced infrastructure costs.
Why Keste?
Within a nine-month period, Keste and Maritz migrated sandbox, dev/test, production and disaster recovery environments for E-Business Suite and an additional 26+ applications running on an Oracle back end to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
“I can’t say enough about how smoothly the migration went.” said Hunsaker about the transition. “We have a warehouse that we fulfill out of that depended on everything operating smoothly, and we were able to do it over a weekend without impacting operations. I don’t think we would have been able to make this happen in nine months without Keste and Oracle.”
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