07 / CLOUD / SUCCESS STORY

National retailer moves Oracle E-Business Suite to cloud, with tested disaster recovery on Azure

A national retailer started with a disaster recovery mandate and ended with a leaner, cloud-based home for its Oracle E-Business Suite — with DR running on a second cloud.

CLIENT SNAPSHOT

National retail chain · 200+ stores across India · Oracle E-Business Suite running finance, inventory and order management

HEADLINE RESULTS

What changed in production.

001No capital spend on a second data centre for DR
002Recovery Time Objective under 4 hours, previously untested
003Compute scales with festive-season demand rather than sitting sized for peak
004Zero-downtime cutover for the production EBS migration
01 / THE CHALLENGE

Where the pressure started.

The retailer's E-Business Suite ran finance, inventory and order management from a single on-premises data centre. There was no tested recovery site, and hardware was near end of life. A second physical site was costly and would sit idle most of the year. The business also needed extra capacity for festive and sale-season peaks, and the CIO wanted DR on a different cloud from production for true separation.

02 / WHAT WE DID

Designed for the real operating environment.

  • Assessed the EBS landscape, customizations, integrations and recovery objectives.
  • Built production on OCI with Exadata Database Service and application tiers on OCI compute.
  • Set up disaster recovery on Microsoft Azure, using database replication and application-tier images so a real cloud outage does not take both sides down.
  • Tested switchover and switchback with business users until results were repeatable.
  • Used the proven DR design as the landing zone to migrate production EBS to OCI in phases.
  • Right-sized compute so capacity scales up for peak trading and back down afterwards.
03 / OUTCOMES

The result is more than a platform.

↗ A tested, documented recovery capability for core retail operations.
↗ No capital spend on a second data centre or a hardware refresh.
↗ Capacity that flexes with seasonal demand rather than being sized for the single busiest week.
↗ True cross-cloud separation between production and DR.
↗ A lower-risk path to cloud, since DR proved the architecture before production moved.
TECHNOLOGY STACK

Built on proven enterprise foundations.

Oracle E-Business Suite · Oracle Exadata Database Service on OCI · Oracle Data Guard · Microsoft Azure Compute · Azure Blob Storage · Azure Site Recovery · OCI FastConnect · Oracle Interconnect for Azure

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