Case Study: NilsonGroup achieves 30% infrastructure cost savings with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Oracle)

NilsonGroup cuts infrastructure costs 30% with Oracle Cloud

NilsonGroup, a family-owned Scandinavian shoe retailer with about 200 stores and roughly US$270 million in annual sales, needed to refresh aging on-premises hardware to cut infrastructure costs, increase agility, and handle the seasonality of its business. The company planned to migrate core systems—its custom ERP, sales analytics, and data warehouse—to a more flexible platform to reduce hardware administration, simplify IT operations, and strengthen data security.

NilsonGroup moved its workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Autonomous Database and Oracle Analytics, gaining autoscaling, automated database lifecycle management, and self-service analytics. The cloud migration cut infrastructure costs by about 30% (≈US$120,000/year), doubled data-warehouse performance, enabled shutting down development environments when idle, and provided automatic updates, backups, and improved GDPR-aligned security.

NilsonGroup

Johan Holmström

IT Operations Manager