Inside Oracle’s Own Global Operations Data Center

[Oct. 27, 2008 Update:  The latest version of this popular presentation from OpenWorld 2008 is now available for download.  For links to the latest version, see this
article.]

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

You can download this year’s presentation here:

• Oracle Case Study: Global Operations with Oracle E-Business Suite (PDF, 675K)
  (Username: cboracle, Password: oraclec6 to download)
  

Related

• Case Study: Oracle’s Own E-Business Suite Global Single Instance
  (2005 metrics)
• Lessons from Going Global at Oracle (OTN)