Case Study: Cognizant achieves 50% faster application performance, on‑demand scalability and 75% power savings with Oracle Exadata and Exalogic

Cognizant Technology Solutions Improves Database and Application Scalability to Support Growth, Reduces Power Consumption by 75%

Cognizant Technology Solutions, a global IT consulting and outsourcing firm with nearly 200,000 employees, needed to eliminate frequent system slowdowns and lengthy downtime, improve response times for business‑critical PeopleSoft and WebCenter Content applications, and implement a scalable, consolidated architecture to support growing transaction volumes while cutting maintenance and energy costs.

Working with Oracle, Cognizant migrated to Oracle Exadata and Exalogic, completing the implementation in about seven months with minimal disruption. The integrated platform cut top batch times by 65%, improved transaction and application performance by at least 50%, doubled timesheet throughput to 14,000 messages/hour, supported nearly 200,000 users with 67% fewer app/web servers, reduced power consumption by 75%, shortened monthly close by 50%, and virtually eliminated incident‑management overhead.

Cognizant

Robert Telesmanic

Senior Vice President and Corporate Controller