Case Study: Cognizant achieves 40% faster PeopleSoft performance with Oracle Exadata Database Service on OCI

Cognizant relies on Oracle Cloud to support 340,000 PeopleSoft users

Cognizant, a leading global professional services firm, needed to scale and stabilize its core Oracle PeopleSoft environment as employee growth, acquisitions, and heavy end-of-month processing increased demand. With more than 340,000 users and over 24 terabytes of HR and finance data, Cognizant needed better performance, availability, security, and manageability for its Oracle-based applications.

Oracle helped Cognizant migrate its PeopleSoft workloads to Oracle Exadata Database Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, with support from Oracle Customer Success Services and tools such as OCI Observability and Management, Oracle Data Safe, OCI Vault, and Zero Downtime Migration. The move improved performance by 40%, eliminated peak-time capacity issues, cut database refreshes from 18 hours to under 2 hours, and reduced firefighting by more than 50%, while enabling faster closes, stronger compliance, and smoother future growth.

Cognizant

Gopi Krishnan Gunasekaran

Associate Director