Case Study: State Corrections Department cuts Oracle CPU use by 50%, restores performance and avoids $60K in hardware with Fortra's Vityl Capacity Management

Department of Corrections Resolves Performance Issues

This state Department of Corrections oversees multiple prisons and a corrections database used by about 3,500 officials to manage more than 52,000 records. When database performance degraded—CPU utilization averaged 80%, end-of-month processing stretched from one day to five, and agreed service levels were missed—the agency needed a comprehensive capacity and performance reporting tool to identify root causes and restore acceptable service.

They deployed Vityl Capacity Management across the environment within a month, which quickly revealed structurally incorrect queries and lack of caching that drove servers to full capacity. Fixes cut Oracle CPU use to about 40%, restored response times to seconds, reduced reporting from days to hours, avoided more than $60,000 in hardware purchases, and produced roughly $400,000 in savings in the first three months, paying for itself within a quarter.