Case Study: Qatar Olympic Committee achieves up to 5x database performance and 20% lower TCO with Oracle Exadata

Qatar Olympic Committee Increases Database Performance up to 5x While Lowering Total Cost of Ownership by 20%

The Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC), which manages the nation’s Olympic and international sports participation, faced increasing strain from three‑year‑old servers that threatened downtime, limited scalability for more events and public engagement, and drove high total cost of ownership and complex multi‑vendor support. An internal audit flagged the legacy infrastructure as a risk, prompting QOC to seek a more reliable, scalable, and cost‑effective database platform with a single point of support.

QOC adopted an Oracle‑on‑Oracle approach—consolidating multiple Oracle Database instances onto Oracle Exadata Database Machine X3‑2 HP, deploying Oracle Real Application Clusters and Real User Experience Insight, and using Oracle Advanced Customer Support for migration. The result was up to 5x faster database performance (payroll processing cut from 25 minutes to under 5), a 20% reduction in TCO (including 55% lower licensing fees and 56% lower database support costs), simplified management and support, improved availability and monitoring, and easy scalability for future growth.

Qatar Olympic Committee

Ibrahim Al-Jefairi

IT Director