Can a worldwide provider consolidate its data to a single global instance as its cloud strategy? Mars Veterinary Health is one of the world’s largest networks of veterinary care providers, with more than 2,500 clinics and hospitals in nine countries across the globe. Having such an expansive scope is a challenge from a data infrastructure perspective, and the IT staff at Mars understood that things were hitting a tipping point for performance, stability, and capabilities. This factor became important given the company’s significant growth trajectory; as the network of clinics and providers increased, data strategies had to include the growing overall workload on its data backbone.

A global veterinary provider’s cloud migration strategy

Working with legacy Oracle equipment, the Mars team, led by Aravind R., director of Enterprise Application Management and Global enterprise resource planning since 2019, began exploring the strategy of cloud migration because of continuously running into performance issues. However, such a massive transition came with the following considerations, given the global scope of the company:

  • The company’s reach around the world with hospitals and business units
  • The continued growth of the company
  • The amount of manual labor involved in maintenance and other regular processes
  • The unique workload of each hospital and business unit create

Considering these issues, Aravind and his team choose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) among cloud provider options. “Oracle Financials set them apart [heading] into the Gen 2 OCI technology,” Aravind said.

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The cloud strategy to migrate to a single global instance

Aravind recently detailed the path to migrating and consolidating data into a single global instance, with Oracle’s Zach Matthews for the Built and Deployed discussion series. This journey included both a proof-of-concept stage and an execution stage, something that Aravind likened to going live in “a Big Bang way.” The resulting cloud migration included better performance overall, greater efficiency through automation, and the ability to go to a technology stack for new services and features within OCI.

“When we were looking at opportunities to improve our performance at the technology level,” Aravind said, “We found Gen 2’s Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP) as one of the best options. And to reduce some of the manual efforts that we used to have, ATP provides a lot of automation in various aspects. That made the decision for us to move for this new technology from Oracle.”

To hear more from Aravind on how Mars Veterinary Health’s cloud strategy used OCI to create a global data platform, watch his conversation with Oracle’s Zach Matthews.

To see how the Mars Veterinary Health team utilized the features of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, see their reference architecture.