LogOn Consulting multiplies computing power and frees up capital with Oracle
LogOn Consulting achieves increased computing power and storage capacity to power its artificial intelligence application with Oracle.
LogOn Consulting is a provider of innovative recruitment technologies. The company’s software identifies suitable candidates for advertised jobs based on information from various sources and works to a large extent with artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous causal discovery algorithms. It automatically records completely unstructured information, structures and analyzes it, and draws logical, entirely unbiased conclusions from the results. The software is already being put to practical uses, ranging from automated information gathering and analysis for companies to a robot in the shape of a humanoid head, which conducts discussions autonomously with recruiters and job candidates.
However, due to the high volume of accumulated data and the use of AI, achieving broader market penetration with this technology requires far higher computing capacity than LogOn Consulting was able to achieve in a physical data center. The company needed an adequately efficient and flexible infrastructure for the fast growth it is planning for the coming years.
LogOn Consulting had no previous experience with Oracle Cloud but did have extensive know-how with regard to the administration of applications and the previously -used infrastructure of a data center. Although extensive modifications and configurations were required for the migration of the company’s eRecruiting application, the company was able to implement the solution without external assistance in only two weeks and within budget.
“With Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, we are creating the necessary conditions for the planned rapid growth of our company. Without the capacity, flexibility, and performance of Oracle Cloud, our business model would simply be unthinkable.”
Business challenges
- Increase computing performance and storage capacity to enable the company’s short and medium-term international growth plans
- Make the company’s IT infrastructure scalable both upwards and downwards —whereby the costs at any given time should correspond with actual usage, since the company expects both peak workloads and phases with reduced computing requirements
- Ensure processing and storage of all information exclusively in Germany, while also guaranteeing compliance with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), since the company processes personally identifiable information (PII)
- Avoid committing capital to technology in order to maximize long-term free cash flow and finance the company’s growth
- Deploy an infrastructure that provides a suitable platform for innovative technologies such as blockchain to be used in new applications and in the expansion of existing products
Why LogOn Consulting GmbH & Co. KGaA chose Oracle
“The main criteria for us in choosing a suitable partner were maximum stability and performance of the infrastructure, the provider’s technical know-how and innovative power, a clear road map for future development, an advantageous cost structure, and absolute reliability. Oracle provides state-of-the-art data processing infrastructure, meets all of these criteria, and does not collect and sell data itself. We believe that these are crucial advantages over all of the other major cloud service providers—including Google or Amazon.”
—Peter Kolb, CEO, LogOn Consulting
Results
- Implemented an e-recruiting solution on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute to secure any required computing performance so that the company can expand its global customer base
- Gained the ability with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute to process data volumes that were impossible to achieve in the physical data center, increasing the available computing power 64-fold, while tripling the available storage space with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage
- Increased application workloads by 15x to 30x—still offering room for expansion—while maintaining the same total cost of ownership (TCO) for infrastructure as the previous data center
- Achieved substantial cost savings by deploying Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute, expecting TCO to be $600,000 to $1.2 million less than other cloud providers
- Enabled the company to scale infrastructure flexibly and on short notice, so that it can plan for both peak workloads and reduced usage as needed at any time—for example, using a machine with 128 kernels for a few days for the pseudonymized reading and profiling of around 12 million social media profiles available in Germany
- Maximized free cash flow to finance planned growth leveraging the usage-based invoicing model of Oracle, which requires no upfront investment
- Achieved optimal protection of the company’s capital and business model while ensuring compliance with all GDPR provisions by using the domestic Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Achieved maximum technological flexibility with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute since the company can quickly configure development and test environments as needed, and at any time
- Anticipated to leverage Oracle Cloud for innovative projects, such as evaluating Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service to ensure that job candidates retain control over their personal data even after they have been stored, while at the same time guaranteeing data integrity and data quality in the interests of potential employers