Reduce reliance on Oracle, increase business agility and decrease TCO
This global investment bank wanted to reduce costs, transform legacy applications and shrink its datacentre footprint. Specific concerns were:
- Databases utilising a lot of hardware, storage and specialised personnel. This, along with typically high licence costs meant they were a prime target for cost reduction and transformation
- Oracle installations tend to be complex and are not cloud-friendly, so a secondary aim was to reduce this complexity by using cloud-ready database PaaS offerings