Case Study: Granarolo S.p.A. achieves 30–60% faster application performance and 24/7 availability with Oracle Exadata (Oracle)

Granarolo Boosts Application Performance by Moving to Engineered Systems

Granarolo S.p.A., Italy’s largest dairy producer with more than 8.5 million liters of milk processed annually, needed a reliable, high‑performance IT platform to support its end‑to‑end supply chain and international expansion. The company relied on Oracle Database for core operations but faced end‑of‑life hardware, the need to run 12 critical and 28 core applications (including SAP ECC, ERP, TM, CRM, and identity management) with zero interruption, and pressure to innovate and reduce costs in a fast‑changing market.

Working with Oracle Consulting, Granarolo migrated about 40 applications and 28 databases to two Oracle Exadata machines in separate datacenters using Oracle Active Data Guard, with no business downtime. The move delivered 30–60% better SAP performance, halved monthly invoice generation time, cut daily inventory calculations to 20% of previous time, doubled transportation order throughput, and let 650 users run queries in seconds instead of minutes—while consolidating infrastructure, reducing licensing costs, and enabling scalable, always‑on operations.

Granarolo

Fabrizio Bracco

CTO