Case Study: Burns & McDonnell achieves 35% IT infrastructure cost reduction and simplified operations with Oracle Exadata Cloud Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Burns & McDonnell moves its core on-premises software to Oracle Cloud

Burns & McDonnell, a Kansas City–based engineering and professional services firm, faced growing pains as its highly customized on‑premises Oracle applications and databases became costly and hard to maintain. Data latency and an overburdened IT team slowed timesheet updates, project costing, and supplier interactions, prompting the company to consolidate and standardize on a single cloud platform.

Working with partner Candid Source, Burns & McDonnell migrated its Oracle E‑Business Suite and databases to Oracle Exadata Cloud Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, using multiple test environments to minimize cutover downtime. The move eliminated hardware management, enabled rapid scaling, cut IT infrastructure costs by 35%, and set the stage for an X8M upgrade that the company expects will deliver roughly 2.5× better throughput and 10× lower latency.

Burns & McDonnell

Joe Kor

Department Manager, IT Enterprise Applications