Case Study: Ewha Womans University cuts IT costs 25% and speeds campus services 3x with Oracle Exadata (Oracle)

Ewha Womans University Cuts IT Costs by 25% with Oracle Engineered Systems

Ewha Womans University, a leading Korean institution for women’s education and research, needed a scalable, integrated IT platform to support student services, peak-period course registration, and future cloud adoption while cutting rising infrastructure costs. The university faced fragmented systems—multiple databases and legacy servers—that slowed data processing during spikes, complicated maintenance, and limited service growth.

Ewha consolidated nine databases and two legacy servers onto Oracle Exadata (with Oracle RAC, Enterprise Manager, Partitioning, and Diagnostics), completing migration in 10 months. The integrated platform processed peak queries three times faster (20,000 queries in 1 minute vs. 3), improved campus service responsiveness by up to 40%, halved database cores (76 to 36), and cut total ownership costs by about 25% (US$265,000) over three years while boosting availability, scalability, and manageability.

Ewha Womans University

SJ Yun

IT Deputy Manager, Office of Information and Communication/Central Library