EBS Migration to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
One size does
not fit all
There are many valid reasons why you may be exploring the option of migrating your on-premises Oracle E-Business Suite to OCI rather than moving to a SaaS solution like Fusion Apps. InspireXT are ready to help you take the next steps in achieving this in the most efficient way for your business.
Optimizing infrastructure with minimal business disruption
Cost, resilience, technical debt, maintenance, security, and environmental triggers are causing many organizations to evaluate their Oracle EBS environments. For some, this is a natural time to start the journey to Fusion SaaS and the simplicity that brings. For others, this is not feasible yet, but neither is do nothing, and the option to migrate the current applications to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is appealing. InspireXT are experts with Oracle Applications and technology and can help you design and execute on the right strategy for you that meets your financial, operational, and technical priorities.
How we can help
Assessment and Planning
Evaluate your current E-Business system to understand its architecture, dependencies, and requirements. Determine if your EBS is compatible with OCI and identify the steps needed to make it so. Define your migration goals such as reducing costs or improving scalability. Demonstrate a path to Fusion if required.
Setup Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Working with your infrastructure team, we will lead you through the creation configuration of the OCI environment. Starting with the creation of the OCI account if you don’t already have one, we will create and configure the necessary OCI resources such as Virtual Cloud Network, compute instances, storage buckets, databases, etc based on your EBS system requirements.
Migration Strategy
Determine the best approach based on business requirements, downtime constraints, and risk tolerance. Choose the right migration approach – such as Lift and Shift, which minimizes changes and uses basic infrastructure services (IaaS), or refactoring the application, to take advantage of some cloud-native capabilities such as Oracle Autonomous Database or Oracle Integration Cloud which may deliver more value.
Application Migration
Undertake the migration of EBS to OCI, aligned to the migration strategy. Including updating any integrations required to ensure the ongoing operation of the application, as well as the incorporation of any Oracle IaaS or PaaS services. Also, incorporate the new application environment into the client’s wider operations framework.
Testing and Validation
Carry out rigorous testing of the migrated application to ensure functionality, performance, and security. These tests will form the benchmark for any future releases and can be automated to reduce overhead. Test various use cases and scenarios to assess the behavior of the application in an OCI environment.
Go-Live and Post-Migration Support
Plan and execute the cutover to the OCI environment. Closely monitor the application during the post-migration period to address any performance concerns or issues. Provide ongoing support and maintenance to ensure consistent and reliable operation of E-business on OCI.
Optimization
Optimize the performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency of the EBS application on OCI. Monitor and analyze performance metrics to fine tune any OCI resources used in the solution.
Security and Compliance
Implement security best practices, configuring network security, access control, encryption, and auditing to align all compliance with your organizations policies.
Training and Knowledge Transfer
Provision of training to IT staff and stakeholders on how to manage and operate the e-business application on OCI. Provision of documentation and knowledge transfer to support ongoing maintenance and operations.
Benefits of EBS Migration
Cost Savings
- Pay-As-You-Go Model: OCI services are typically run on a PAYG pricing model, allowing organizations to pay only for the resources they consume.
- Reduced Capital Expenditure: Cloud services eliminate the need for upfront investment in hardware, infrastructure, and facilities, as well as associated technical debt hardware refresh cycle.
Scalability
- Elasticity: OCI provides a scalable infrastructure which provides the ability to scale resources up or down based on demand, ensuring that your infrastructure can easily adapt to changing workloads or peak events.
- Non-Production: OCI enables rapid scaling up / down of non-production environments to support development programs, eliminating the need to provision physical hardware to accommodate peak environment complexity.
Performance
- Tiered performance compute storage: OCI is designed to provide the right level of performance for the right workload at the right time, enabling clients to balance business needs and costs. Moving Oracle EBS to OCI can result in improved system performance, faster response times, and a better overall user experience.
Security
- Secure by Design: OCI enhances simplifies security controls, designed to address regulatory compliance, stay on top of security threats and prevent security-related outages. It does this through provision of a secure cloud environment with features such as customer isolation, identity management, authorization, data encryption, vulnerability detection, and monitoring. OCI’s architecture also provides better protection through isolated network virtualization.
- Compliance: Oracle Cloud adheres to industry standards and regulatory compliance requirements, ensuring data protection and regulatory adherence.
Reliability and High Availability
- Availability: OCI has data centers in multiple geographic regions, fault-tolerant architecture and availability domains providing redundancy and ensuring high availability of services.
- Disaster Recovery: OCI provides several disaster recovery options to enhance an organizations business continuity strategy.
Innovation and Future Proofing
- Access to Advanced Technologies: Cloud platforms like OCI continuously evolve, providing access to the latest technologies, such as Generative AI or mobility services. This will provide you with even more options to enhance your service when you decide to do so by integrating with new features where appropriate.
- Transition to Fusion: By moving to OCI, you will be in the best place should you consider a transition of services to Fusion in the future. Low-cost temporary proof of concept environments can be provisioned to help you assess and plan this journey.
Environmental Impact
- Energy Efficiency: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is designed as an energy-efficient infrastructure, contributing to a reduced environmental footprint compared to on-premises data centers. It achieves this through creating a high-density green cloud powered by renewable resources, the latest energy-efficient technology, and a commitment to recycle reuse all retired hardware.
- Reportable: Oracle provides sustainability analytics to help you measure, manage, and report on your sustainability initiatives with environmental data that is comprehensive, auditable, and timely.
Global Reach
- Global Presence: OCI has a global network of data centers, allowing organizations to deploy Oracle EBS instances closer to their end-users for improved performance.
- Pay-as-you-go Model: Cloud services typically follow a pay-as-you-go pricing model, allowing organizations to pay only for the resources they consume.
- Reduced Capital Expenditure: Migrating to the cloud eliminates the need for significant upfront investments in hardware, infrastructure, and facilities.
- Elasticity: OCI provides a scalable infrastructure which provides the ability to scale resources up or down based on demand, ensuring that your infrastructure can easily adapt to changing workloads.
- High performance compute: OCI is designed to provide high performance computing and storage resources. Moving Oracle EBS to OCI can result in improved system performance, faster response times, and a better overall user experience.
- Built-in Security Features: OCI provides a secure cloud environment with features such as identity and access management, encryption, and network security. This can enhance the overall security posture of EBS compared to managing security on-premises.
- Compliance: Oracle Cloud adheres to industry standards and regulatory compliance requirements, ensuring data protection and regulatory adherence.
- Availability: OCI has data centres in multiple geographic regions, fault-tolerant architecture and availability domains providing redundancy and ensuring high availability of services.
- Disaster Recovery: OCI provides several disaster recovery options to enhance an organisations business continuity strategy.
- Access to Advanced Technologies: Cloud platforms like OCI continuously evolve, providing access to the latest technologies. This will provide you with even more options to enhance your service when you decide to do so by integrating with new features where appropriate.
- Transition to Fusion: By moving to OCI, you will be in the best place should you consider a transition of services to Fusion in the future and low-cost temporary proof of concept environments can be provisioned to make this possible.
- Energy Efficiency: Cloud providers often invest in energy-efficient infrastructure, contributing to a reduced environmental footprint compared to on-premises data centres.
- Global Presence: OCI has a global network of data centres, allowing organizations to deploy Oracle EBS instances closer to their end-users for improved performance.
Why InspireXT
InspireXT are always focused on your company’s long-term success as this underpins our company culture. It’s very simple really – if we are given the opportunity to work with you, we see this as the start of a long journey together in whatever capacity you need us. EBS migration can be a daunting challenge purely because of the endless possibilities it brings.
However, we will not let that get in the way of our (yours and our) main goal which is a preformant, cost-effective EBS solution on the cloud that can be enhanced and expanded as much or as little as you see fit, once the migration is successfully completed.
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