Case Study: Qatar Aluminium Limited eliminates downtime and reduces IT costs with Oracle Database Appliance

Qatar Aluminium Strengthens IT Infrastructure by Moving to Engineered Systems

Qatar Aluminium (Qatalum) is a large aluminum smelter in Mesaieed, Qatar, producing over 600,000 metric tons annually. Facing frequent downtime that disrupted plant production, end-of-life hardware with no spare parts, complex administration, and high operational and utilities costs, Qatalum needed a robust, scalable IT platform to ensure 24/7 availability and support future growth.

Qatalum deployed Oracle Engineered Systems—including Oracle Database Appliance, Oracle Database 12c, and Real Application Clusters—with implementation support from Mannai and Oracle Premier Support. The new architecture eliminated monthly outages, boosted application performance and staff productivity, consolidated servers (halving datacenter count), cut hosting fees by 74% and server support costs by 80%, improved reporting on production data, reduced power/cooling needs, and delivered an expected ROI within two years.

Qatar Aluminium Limited

Imraan Peerbhai

APICS / LIMS System Engineer