Inside Oracle's Own Global Operations Data Center
Every year at OpenWorld, Bret Fuller discusses how Oracle consolidated over 70 individual E-Business Suite instances into a single instance serving all global operations. The statistics for Oracle's own Global Single Instance keep rising impressively every year:

Bret's presentation this year covers:
- The business metrics before and after the consolidation
- Savings estimates and a discussion of business benefits
- Oracle's Global Single Instance architecture, including a glimpse of the off-site production and disaster-recovery setups in our Austin and Colorado Springs data centers
- Before and after hardware comparisons
- Tips on project management best practices
- Detailed view of the change management processes around the Global Single Instance
- Critical success factors and tips
- Oracle Case Study: Global Operations with Oracle E-Business Suite (PDF, 675K)
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