Oracle Exadata

Oracle Exadata Database Machine is our enterprise standard for SQL databases. My department has a large application on Sybase ASE 16 and we evaluated a number of platforms to migrate onto from Sybase. After reviewing MS-SQL, SAP HANA, IBM DB2 and Exadata, Exadata emerged as the winner. We put in place a two year project plan to migrate about 50 TB of data, 24 databases * 7 instances, 8000 stored procedures and about 1,500 tables. Our business problem we were solving was to collapse 7 instances of our application into 1, eliminate multiple copies of data and migrate off of dedicated hardware, moving to our enterprise Exadata offering us the database as a service.

Recently our client's Oracle database servers were migrated to Oracle Exadata Database Machine. Due to this migration, downtime has reduced drastically. Previously we had downtime during Oracle patching but now there is no downtime. The Oracle Exadata Database Machine is faster. It supports scripting using bash. The computing speed is high. The performance of queries has increased a lot. Our business is running smoothly due to this.

Exadata is used extensively to support various business intelligence teams. It allows for high speed delivery of data as well as fast replication to other environments. It also allows for a siloed approach for delivering discrete database solutions. As an architected solution, we can quickly realize features and components that will be highly utilized as well as those that will not.

The Exadata Machine is used as a centralized database for ERP applications, and some other inhouse applications. It is used for the whole organization. It helps us increase processing speed and leads to less downtime.

I have been using Exadata for about 8 months and have been loving it. Most of the time it is used by the BI applications team and we don't get any bad feedback from then. If you want the ORDM, go for it. It's fast and effective. Migration to the database is easy as well.

Our organization utilizes Oracle Exadata Database Machine as analytical database system. It is primarily used by business analytics and reporting units throughout the organization. As an enterprise grade database appliance with optimized computing platform, it enables users to execute aggregation of huge data faster than using commodity servers. Thus it is a dependable system to generate mission critical reports.

It has leveraged as our enterprise Oracle Database platform. Helped us with the consolidation of all Oracle Databases including both OLTP and DW/ODS.

It is being used across the entire organization for database needs.

We use the Exadata enterprise wide. It has all of our OLTP production databases as well as the data warehouse. We also have a standby Exadata where we use Active Data Guard.

Oracle Exadata Database Machines is being used for one of our mission-critical databases supporting the revenue cycle department. It has given a great lift to our batch processing which runs every single day. It improved performance and run times of BI reports.

We run all our mission-critical databases on the Exadata platform. It provides us the extreme reliability and availability to achieve our extremely high SLA's.

We are using Oracle Exadata Database Machine for all of our Oracle databases which includes Supply Chain, Order Management, Finance, Integration, etc. Exadata improved all database performance. It has been most beneficial to our warehouse operations. We used to have a lot of IO issues, and to troubleshoot them, our DBA has to spend 3-4 hours daily. Now, IO is no longer the issue.

For all other processes like RMAN backups, export/import and data loads, we saw a lot of improvements.

Oracle Exadata Database Machine is the best solution when you need to integrate several databases or you have done some acquisitions. We need to make reports every Wednesday and getting that outlook is a huge amount of data. With Oracle Exadata Database Machine, we could reduce the downtime and accuracy of our database. It is used by everyone in the company and also running our Eloqua BI platforms.

It is used throughout the organization as the primary reporting database for patient data. Multiple instances are running, one for each region/state.

It's the best platform to run Oracle Database. You can consolidate all your DB workload to Exadata and it will perform much better than other platforms. We got almost a 3-5x boost on Exadata. It is one of the best and easy to manage platforms and gives full control to DBA. Backup and restore of Database is also easier, simpler, and faster.

We are using it for our PeopleSoft application across the enterprise. This addresses some of our performance issues. Our payroll calcs went from 25 minutes per calc to 6 minutes greatly improving our payroll confirm. Better performance for our database backups.

The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is durable. It is a highly relevant option with extreme performance. The extreme performance is one of the key features when you're using Exadata. There are known points that you need to take care of, simply "beware of update".!

I implemented a data warehouse on Exadata. Before this solution, we were aiming for this to be completed by 8 a.m., when our ETLs would finish. With the help of Exadata's special features, this was reduced to 3 a.m.

This solution allows us to bring more data within the same time period. It provides us with more subject areas that provide more reports to our users. Our ETL times reduced to 65%, then to 50%.

I use Oracle Exadata in relation to Banner reports, I can use these reports specifically for budgeting and accounts payable.

It's being used as a data warehouse across the whole organization. It solves the issue of performance. We have a lot of data and Exadata resolves the issue of storing and querying it.

We used Exadata across the entire organization. We needed a super high-performance database platform for Oracle - and Exadata was exactly what we needed. While the initial cost and learning curve were a bit steep, the performance improvements in all our database applications were nothing short of phenomenal. If we could have afforded to switch over entirely to Exadata we would have had stellar results. For those database applications we did not place on Exadata it was painful to know there's a better platform and way to go. If budget were not an issue we would have done so. It's almost impossible to value the smart scan technology and cell offloading until you see it in practice. The technology delivers on every promise and in general, is far better than one expects.