Case Study: ADNOC Distribution achieves 15x performance boost, 90% storage reduction and 1-year ROI with Oracle Exadata

ADNOC Distribution Sees Return on Investment in One Year and Eliminates Nearly 90% of Performance Bottlenecks in Business-Critical Applications

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company Distribution (ADNOC Distribution) is a UAE government–owned fuel retailer operating 250+ service stations, processing more than 250 million financial transactions a year with roughly 3,000 concurrent users. Rapid growth (10–15% annually) and a legacy environment of 10 databases across multiple servers led to long processing times, rising costs, frequent bottlenecks and constrained business agility for its 24/7 sales, ERP and BI systems.

ADNOC consolidated onto an Oracle Exadata private database cloud—reducing to five databases and using features like hybrid columnar compression, InfiniBand, RAC and automated management. The deployment delivered ROI within a year, eliminated nearly 90% of performance bottlenecks, cut storage needs by ≈90%, and produced average 15× performance gains in sales systems. Key wins included reducing monthly billing from 220 to 10 minutes, slashing backups from 24 to 1 hour, saving thousands of processing hours annually, lowering database licensing costs by 40%, and achieving near‑100% uptime while enabling database provisioning in minutes.

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Awad Ahmed Ali El-Sidiq

Senior Database Administrator – Technology Team Leader