Top Financial Firm Trades IT Bottlenecks for Unstoppable Performance: Exadata Success Story
Overview
When the leading financial services provider discovered its IT ecosystem moving at a snail’s pace, our specialized team of consultants and experts stepped in – fixing performance issues, redefining productivity, and making environment a highly available one with masterpiece execution of Exadata.
Shortfall of High-Stakes Performance
With tens of thousands of employees relying on Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) for daily operations, the client’s IT foundation was critical to ensuring uninterrupted business performance. Despite investing in a powerful Exadata X7-2 quarter rack and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE), the firm faced significant delays in generating reports including daily business summaries and month-end financial closures.
The baseline performance of the new setup fell short when compared to the legacy system. And while the infrastructure investment was substantial, optimization gaps meant that the business couldn’t fully realize Exadata’s promised value.
That’s when our industry experts were brought in to transform the system from underperforming to unstoppable.
Precision Engineering Meets Proven Methodology
Our assessment technologists began with a comprehensive Exadata performance assessment, leveraging its proprietary Performance Evaluation Toolkit to identify inefficiencies across the database, EBS, and reporting workloads.
Our technical architects unwrapped key optimization opportunities and implemented a focused enhancement strategy that included:
- Reducing the EBS memory footprint by 60% to eliminate unnecessary resource consumption and free up compute power for high-priority tasks.
- Making indexes invisible on tables larger than 50 GB to improve SQL execution paths and accelerate data retrieval.
- Standardizing a degree of parallelism (4) across workloads to ensure efficient query distribution and balanced compute utilization.
The approach was data-driven, surgical, and focused on delivering measurable outcomes.
Transformation from Hours to Minutes
Reporting workloads that once consumed hours — including critical month-end closing reports — were reduced to minutes and seconds.
Beyond performance, the engagement led to:
- Massive operational efficiency gains, enabling teams to make faster business decisions.
- Significant infrastructure cost savings by reducing the EBS memory footprint and improving resource utilization.
- Future-ready scalability and cloud compatibility, ensuring the Exadata system is now optimized for hybrid and OCI-driven modernization paths.
- Enhanced system resilience and security, aligning with industry-leading best practices for financial data environments.
An Established Performance Benchmark for a Financial Industry
Our engineers transformed the client’s Exadata environment into a model of optimization and reliability, turning a costly IT challenge into a competitive differentiator.
By combining deep Oracle expertise with performance engineering precision, INFOLOB helped the organization unlock the true potential of its IT investments, setting a new performance benchmark for financial enterprises worldwide. Amplifying the business impact, our Oracle-certified experts leverage hands-on experience in Exadata, EBS, and AI-powered analytics to drive measurable performance enhancements. This promotes business growth, resilience, and innovation.
