Case Study: a global retail company accelerates worldwide growth with IBM Cloud Managed Services for Oracle Applications

Building a billion-dollar business through cloud-based managed services

A major global retail company with aspirations for rapid international expansion faced the challenge of enabling dramatic business growth without the significant time, energy, and capital expenditure required to build and manage its own complex IT infrastructure. They needed a sophisticated yet scalable solution that would free them to focus on core retail operations rather than IT concerns, turning to IBM and its cloud services for a transformation.

IBM implemented its Cloud Managed Services for Oracle Applications (CMS4Oracle), hosting a comprehensive suite of the retailer's Oracle systems. This solution provided the company with instant infrastructure maturity, easy scalability, and eliminated the risks of downtime. As a result, the retailer gained the flexible and resilient IT environment needed to support its ambitious growth goals, including a 20 percent annual increase in its store footprint, confidently knowing IBM’s services could scale up or down according to market demands.