Case Study: Emerald Associates achieves high availability and major cost savings with Oracle Database Appliance (Oracle)

Emerald Associates Improves Business Performance with Oracle Database Appliance

Emerald Associates, an Oracle Primavera Platinum Partner based in Calgary, helped two clients—a chemical company and a North American oil and gas firm—solve urgent infrastructure challenges. Both clients needed a reliable, high‑availability platform to run mission‑critical Primavera applications: one to coordinate complex, high‑cost capital projects worldwide and the other to support disaster‑proof operations for turnaround projects exceeding $15 million.

Emerald deployed Oracle Database Appliance with Oracle Primavera, providing an integrated, easy‑to‑manage system and tuning, support, and training services. The solution consolidated disparate databases, cut license and maintenance costs, reduced data recovery from 1.5 days to 30–60 minutes, delivered three years of zero downtime (even during maintenance), and prompted the oil and gas customer to purchase nearly 20 additional units to support other applications.

Emerald Associates

Paul Jardin

Vice President of Technology