Case Study: Aliat Universidades achieves faster application launches, reduced IT costs, and high database availability with Oracle Exadata

Aliat Universidades Ensures Database Availability, Cuts IT Costs, and Accelerates New Applications Launches for Teachers and Students

Aliat Universidades is a Mexican higher-education group of nine institutions with more than 50 campuses, over 50,000 students and 3,500 faculty. The organization needed a high-performance, easy-to-manage database infrastructure to support diverse, state-specific systems, customize servers for changing academic needs, accelerate application development and releases, maintain performance during usage spikes, and cut IT complexity and costs amid rapid growth.

With Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Consulting, Aliat consolidated six disparate databases, reduced data-center complexity, and cut provisioning time for new development environments from weeks to hours. The deployment delivered dramatic performance gains (report generation dropped from up to 7 hours to 30–45 minutes), improved security with single-point patching, enabled faster data transfer and collaboration for 900+ administrators, lowered maintenance costs, and freed IT resources to focus on delivering better services for students and faculty.

Aliat Universidades

Carlos Granados

IT Director