Move, Optimize, and Extend Custom and Third-Party Applications

Migrate custom and third-party applications to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) with minimal rearchitecture or reintegration and implement infrastructure that delivers higher performance at lower cost than alternatives. OCI includes all the core infrastructure and platform-as-a-service options to meet secure development lifecycle needs through its industry-leading data management products and support for open source technologies like Java, Kubernetes, and MySQL. Customers can use Oracle Cloud Lift Services for rapid workload migration at no cost, Oracle Cloud Coach Clinics to jumpstart development, and Oracle Support Rewards to effectively reduce technology software license costs.

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Seven roads to cloud success with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

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IDC business value study finds that organizations using OCI realize benefits worth US$5M per year.

Why choose OCI to run custom and third-party apps?

Improve price-performance

Oracle helps organizations get workloads to the cloud rapidly and economically. In fact, OCI can provide up to 3x superior price performance compared to AWS. Customers get the same low cloud pricing across all regions and services, committed use discounts, software license portability, and further rewards.

Consistently low and predictable global pricing

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Increase reliability and resilience

OCI provides guidance and reassurance, for both custom and third-party applications, via OCI Architecture Center, financially backed SLAs for availability, performance, and manageability, and free migration assistance via Oracle Cloud Lift Services. The Oracle partner ecosystem can assist customers migrate more complex applications to OCI.

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Extend and modernize apps

Oracle Integration provides connectivity for custom and third-party applications. With OCI’s open and application development platform, developers can use products such as Oracle APEX and Oracle Visual Builder to code less and build web, mobile, and cloud native applications quickly.

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Defining custom and third-party applications

Custom apps

Homegrown IT or departmental applications that support an organization’s unique business processes.

Third-party apps

Non-Oracle software products, which may use Oracle application servers or databases for use cases such as business intelligence, integration, and ERP.

ISV apps

Applications created and distributed by software vendors for use cases such as video conferencing and cybersecurity.

Learn more about why ISVs are choosing OCI.

Migrating and extending custom applications on OCI

Products, tools, and resources relevant to migrating and deploying custom and third-party applications. These apps may be designed using traditional or cloud native architectures.

Connect custom/third-party apps and data sources

Oracle Integration offers a combination of prebuilt connectivity to Oracle as well as third-party, cloud-based and on-premises apps, prebuilt process automation templates, and an intuitive visual builder for web and mobile app development. Customers can migrate and integrate data faster and more easily; and deliver real-time, enriched, and trusted data from disparate cloud and on-premises sources to enable business insights. Additionally, Oracle Cloud Marketplace provides a catalog of integration solutions.

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OCI technical case studies for custom applications

Technical case studies highlight the customer’s goals and the breadth and depth of their technical solution on OCI. Each technical case study features all applicable OCI products used, the customer’s cloud migration path, OCI solution architecture, and the results of their cloud transformation.

Archaeological Park of Pompeii taps OCI to reopen after COVID-19 lockdown

Archaeological Park of Pompeii taps OCI to reopen after COVID-19 lockdown

Following the pandemic, historical site Pompeii reopened using the MyPompeii mobile app, a solution built entirely on OCI with cloud native and API-first principles in mind. Pompeii used these OCI services, SDKs, and frameworks:

Pompeii’s cloud native, mobile solution on OCI includes:

  • A real-time heat map that enables information for points of interest, facilities, and social distancing
  • Complete integration with online ticket sales application TicketOne, so visitors can scan a QR code on their tickets and access all the application’s content
  • Visitor feedback through the application, certified through blockchain

The application has been downloaded by 20,000+ visitors in 2021.

Oracle Cloud helps accelerate COVID-19 testing in the US

Oracle Cloud helps accelerate COVID-19 testing in the US

In the early days of the pandemic, Oracle Consulting built a suite of public health management applications to help collect and analyze the data necessary for government health organizations and the medical community to understand the virus and its spread. Counties using the platform include Tarrant County, the third most populous county in the state of Texas. The platform not only helps Tarrant County’s testing facilities operate more effectively, but also provides valuable information to keep communities safe. These are the services used:

The COVID-19 Testing and Data Response Platform was developed to cater to all steps of the testing process:

  • Provide an online form and categorize each respondent’s risk as high, medium, or low
  • Schedule appointments for people most likely to contract the coronavirus
  • Allow patients to check in using a mobile app and QR code
  • Allow patients to check out and provide the necessary data to testing partners
  • Make the results from the testing partners available to patients
  • Build customized dashboards with augmented and predictive analytics, data visualization, and intelligent insights

The platform provides Tarrant County with valuable information to keep its communities safe and COVID-19 cases down.

AgroScout improves development and DevOps with Oracle Cloud Native Services

AgroScout improves development and DevOps with Oracle Cloud Native Services

AgroScout, a startup in the agritech sector, leveraged Oracle Cloud Native Services to migrate its application to Kubernetes and deliver an automated deployment pipeline. The AgroScout development team can easily manage its application, streamline its CI/CD platform, and achieve better performance on OCI. Facilities operate more effectively, but also provide valuable information to keep communities safe. These are the services used:

Running on OCI, AgroScout’s application achieved the following results:

  • Transition from a static application to a dynamic microservice-based app
  • Cluster deployment time decreased from 23 hours to 2 minutes
  • New version deployment reduced from 24 hours to minutes
  • Enhanced ability to query thousands of images in seconds

AgroScout’s machine learning technology relies on OCI’s GPU instances proving the speed and performance that machine-learning workloads demand.

Cloud native and DevSecOps at scale with Capgemini and Oracle Cloud

Cloud native and DevSecOps at scale with Capgemini and Oracle Cloud

Capgemini has been an Oracle Platinum Partner for over two decades, helping customers with projects such as critical migrations and implementations. When a customer approached Capgemini with aging legacy systems, business change requirements, and strict deadlines enforced by a government directive (PSD2), Capgemini turned to Oracle Cloud. Capgemini delivered a rapidly developed, cloud native platform using these products:

Because OCI services can be provisioned so quickly, Capgemini achieved the following results for their customer:

  • Achieved design to launch in 6 months
  • Scaled its testing to 200% of expected maximum user concurrency
  • Measured a response time averaging 77ms
  • Delivered the PSD2 portal and PSD2 APIs on time and launched the debt register API a week ahead of schedule

The platform serves 300,000 API requests per day.

MESTEC launches robust multicloud strategy with Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure Interconnect

MESTEC launches robust multi-cloud strategy with OCI and Azure Interconnect to optimize manufacturing lifecycle

MESTEC is the world's first cloud-based SaaS manufacturing solution provider. It offers manufacturing execution system (MES) and advanced planning and scheduling (APS) software to manufacturers looking to improve efficiencies in the critical aspects of the manufacturing lifecycle. The company deployed a multicloud strategy leveraging solutions from Oracle and Microsoft. It relies on Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing database connected to an Azure front end through the Oracle-Azure Interconnect to deliver solutions that boost overall manufacturing processes without customization and typical upfront costs. The company utilized the following cloud services from Oracle:

Transitioning to a multicloud strategy:

  • Reduced labor and infrastructure costs by half compared to its on-premises environment
  • Ran manufacturing workloads up to 600% faster with half as many CPUs
  • Achieved a more secure and 100% compliant environment
  • Implemented a diverse set of manufacturing environments quickly and reliably
  • Committed higher-availability SLAs to its customers

With OCI, MESTEC optimized their manufacturing lifecycle and scaled to new infrastructure resources rapidly.

Mynet delivers exceptional mobile gaming experience with OCI, cuts costs by 80%

Mynet delivers exceptional mobile gaming experience with OCI, cuts costs by 80%

Mynet offers mobile game services by acquiring an existing game title, then redesigning and repackaging it to reach a broader audience. This business model enhances the overall profitability and revenue for Mynet. The company migrated to OCI for superior performance at a lower price and reduced overall costs by about 80%. Mynet uses services from other cloud providers depending on game characteristics, in support of its multicloud strategy. The company delivers an exceptional mobile gaming experience utilizing a portfolio of OCI services listed below:

Transitioning most mobile game titles to OCI resulted in:

  • About 80% reduced infrastructure cost
  • Cost savings of over $1M in twelve months
  • 6X improved processing time for a title—from about an hour to just 10 minutes
  • Specific game titles running automatically and at scale without human intervention
  • A unified view of cloud security posture across OCI tenancy

By deploying its mobile gaming experience on OCI, Mynet achieved notable improvements in overall game performance.

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