Case Study: Cognizant achieves greater scalability and 75% lower power consumption with Oracle Exadata

Cognizant - Customer Case Study

Cognizant, the IT consulting and business process outsourcing firm, was dealing with frequent system slowdowns, long downtime windows, and growing performance demands on critical PeopleSoft and Oracle WebCenter Content applications. To support future growth, improve employee productivity, and reduce maintenance and energy costs, Cognizant chose Oracle Exadata Database Machine as part of a broader infrastructure upgrade.

Oracle Exadata, working with Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Oracle support teams, helped Cognizant migrate massive data volumes and modernize its enterprise systems with minimal disruption. The new platform improved application performance by at least 50%, cut the time for top batch processes by 65%, doubled user capacity with 67% fewer servers, and reduced power consumption by 75%, while also speeding timesheet processing and monthly close operations.

Cognizant

Robert Telesmanic

Senior Vice President and Corporate Controller