Case Study: Cerner achieves zero downtime and cuts workload with Oracle Exadata

Cerner Achieves Zero Downtime with Oracle

Cerner, a healthcare IT company, needed to improve performance, ensure high availability, and protect sensitive healthcare data for its mission-critical financial and clinical applications. To reduce complexity and consolidate on one vendor, Cerner selected Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Platinum Services for support, while also addressing security concerns around engineered systems.

Oracle Exadata implemented proactive 24/7 monitoring, rolling patches, and automated support to keep systems available and reduce DBA workload. The results were zero downtime, a 30% workload reduction, and significant productivity gains, including 20 days saved per patching event, plus performance improvements of 60% for PeopleSoft Financials batch processing, 80% for PeopleSoft HCM batch processing, and 40% for Oracle Data Warehouse reports.

Cerner

Purnima Kasarabada

Service Delivery Manager