Oracle Database

ROI is getting lower due to licensing cost on non-Oracle server.

Oracle has a large positive impact on our business as it is a product that we can rely on.

By using Oracle Database, you can develop applications that will scale.

Customers who use Oracle Database can hire developers and administrators from a large, competitive labor pool that is available in all markets.

By building reliable applications with Oracle Database, customer experience is improved, and customers are retained.

Positive: better security encryption.

Positive: Indexing seems to be quite fast.

Negative: all 'newer' products have bugs. The tool is new to our company and there is a bit of a learning curve.

In terms of cost, Oracle is a strong data storage tool that doesn't blow your departmental budget.

Oracle Database is optimized to achieve better performance over its competitors.

The ability to create advanced databases in a cloud platform is its true key value.

On a negative side, the product can be incredibly expensive depending on how its implemented or expanded.

When you give power to your database, you reduce significantly failures and incidents that may arise due to poor performance of transactions. This translates into more capital for your organization.

Oracle is quite expansive. One needs to plan very carefully their server configuration. License cost is on per CPU/thread basis. For RAC, it is even more expansive.

Use freeware DB like maria DB, Postgre for less critical applications.

ROI depends upon application critical. If application is mission critical, go for ORACLE.

Positive - some apps or portions of those apps just run better/quicker due to improved query optimizer

Positive - spending less person-hours managing the database for tasks such as tuning, optimization and configuration tweaking

Positive - 12c R2 just seems to have fixed everything that was not 100% in 12c R1 while still adding tons of new features

On premises solutions requires a high upfront investment (CAPEX and OPEX).

In opposite way, cloud solutions require a lower upfront investment, but some part of CAPEX is moved to OPEX (management, availability, support, etc.).

As any other RDBMS, Oracle Database requires that the application development team (Java, .NET, etc.) has knowledge regarding SQL database architecture, otherwise, a lot of rework will be needed in the future, which to me is a major reason to unscalable applications with high demand.

As I said before, Oracle really allowed us to keep pace with the rapid growth we have been having in recent years. And to also accomplish the increasing demands in security and audit issues. So the impact for us was really positive.

For most of our clients, it has been a value for money proposition as enough due diligence has been done before selecting the product.

Most of our clients were using Oracle enterprise applications so it makes more sense to use Oracle Database, as it helps in seamless integration across products.

Enough documentation and competent consultants are available in the market at a competitive rate, which makes the product cost-effective for maintenance.

Our Objective was the unification of the group as a whole. Oracle not only helped us to reach that goal, it opened the gates to a new era in our company.

Improved marketing campaigns and people engagement. Increased sales due to the efficient, complex and fast reports.

ROI not only we stopped wasting time and money trying other solutions, we also reduced the time we used to create a report. We actually gained access to information we thought was impossible to get.

High Availability of databases using Real-Application Cluster

Consolidation of different applications in a single database

Zero data-loss in case of disaster using Data Guard

The ease of accessibility, as well as security, has made it an ideal database for our students and faculty. Very few of our help desk tickets have been made due to unavailability or poor performance of our Oracle databases.

The monitoring capabilities of 12c Cloud Control have made is much easier to quickly and effectively respond to issues. Graphics have shown us issues such as blocking locks or hung applications that have caused us to get the ball rolling prior to a user contacting us about a problem with another application.

Being able to clone a database or replicate data quickly and efficiently has caused us to quickly respond to requests for test or training systems, without much effort. With the use of RMAN or Flex Clone, we have been able to have a working copy of our production database in under two hours.

Provided stable staging environment

Expensive to maintain

It is reliable. I have not seen a downage since working with this database. I am an end user and I rarely get into the nuts and bolts, so I can't say much about this!

There is a period of downtime nightly to backup all databases in which time we can only query against specific static feeds which is annoying! I would imagine the may be due to the nature of our enterprise and the fact that we do not need to operate into the late evening!

It helped us save on operational expenses and infrastructure.

The complexity of the software was hard for many of our employees to handle. We didn't feel like the 11g to 12c move needed very little additional training.

Oracle Database 12c allows us to have a smaller IT department than many other organizations. There are tools associated with it such as Oracle Enterprise Manager that allow us to automate administrative tasks and alert us when there are problems which frees us up to do other more important tasks.

It has also allowed us to continue having good throughput of transactions. When registration opens for each new term, our systems are slammed with students logging on. In the past students would have to wait in line to get registered, sometimes waiting for hours. Improved performance with better releases of Oracle Database as well as streamlined hardware have eliminated this.

Oracle works with all of its customers, especially educational institutions to work out pricing so that you can get what you really need. Even though they are pricey, if you are willing to meet with them, they will work with you to help you determine which options are most suited to meeting your business goals. They aren't just trying to sell software at all costs.

As a 30+-year installed Oracle database customer, the original licenses, including required increases in CPU counts, have provided the requisite reliability, stability, scalability, and performance demanded of any such product. As you will always note from Oracle, buying once and bigger, will probably cost you less than buying often and more frequently (your contract terms tend to change with each change in packaging.) As a public utility, a five-9's product is the minimum consideration for anything running on our infrastructure which delivers to our customers. Oracle has delivered on that requirement, and keeps the water flowing every day. That's our primary ROI for any investment we make.

Because we are also on a very long and perpetually challenging budget cycle, the freedom other commercial organizations have to "Sell more, then Buy more," doesn't apply to our organization. While we'd like to standardize every database on 12c, cost limitations of upgrading many other applications to a certified combination level, prevents us from moving ahead with that objective. In that regard, sometimes staying on 11gR2 (which has a 2 year shorter lifespan at present), is a required strategic decision, which means we are back to managing multiple technology versions, with the associated challenges. Some of those old applications sitting on a 100MB 8i Oracle Home, would experience a 2000% increase in storage footprint if migrated to an equivalent 12c version (thus consolidation and retirement are always factors considered with such legacy upgrades.)

DBA's who have experience only with 12c and future releases are less likely to have any experience working with non-GUI managed environments (ones without Oracle Cloud Control, Database Express, ApEx, and such) and Oracle's policy on documentation and software cutoffs for "retired/end-of-support" releases can be frustrating. Your organization has a merger with another one that happens to run older applications on older releases (such as 9i or 10g.) They're on a different OS platform. Your task is to re-host, migrate, then consolidate the applications. Good luck finding the installers and patches for an old release. This is one of those "Hey, the document is on a floppy disk. Anyone still have a floppy drive around to read it?" challenges that tends to surface long after the solutions stop being delivered.

Positive - We are confident our data is held securely in the database and access is strictly controlled. We can demonstrate this in our internal security audits and externally that the appropriate checks and balances are in place. This ability to check is critical to our ability to trade.

Positive - The distributed nature of Exadata/RAC allows us to be sure our data is available in case of a node(s) failure. Recovery of a failed node is straightforward. Being able to provide access to the data is critical to our customer SLAs.

Since I have always been a consultant, I have been put into an Oracle Database environment. Having that background makes it easy to go from project to project.

It consolidates our overall IT strategy into oracle dominant platform meaning we have app servers, peoplesoft, web logic and database servers all served by the same vendor.

Oracle cloud strategies allow our organization to offload some of our applications to be managed by the third party.

One of the impressive positive impact Oracle database has met is it offers the choice and flexibility to meet our business requirements in terms of scalability and cost (Since ours is a large enterprise platform).

Negative Impact because data management cost per TB is too expensive for some organizations. If the enterprise is large then the cost is relatively low compared to small to midsize companies. That often results some companies to invest in other cheap databases.

The Mobile platform: With the immense competition around IT, Oracle has accepted the challenge introducing Oracle mobile with cloud connectivity, enabling mobile developers to manage and deliver enterprise wide data and back end services via the cloud.

The use of Oracle Database has improved overall availability, performance, and the capabilities of the business systems, and it has a positive impact on ROI.

Oracle has the reputation of being expensive. If not planned, sized, and estimated appropriately, one could over spend on things that are not necessary. That will inevitably result in a negative impact on ROI.

Think about long term, and the availability of people's skill sets within the organization, and the skills accessible outside. Use the right tools for the jobs.