Case Study: Sonae achieves 5x faster processing and reduced database footprint with Oracle Exadata (Oracle)

Sonae Reduces Database Footprint and Improves Processing Speeds 5x to Boost Business Efficiency

Sonae is a diversified Portuguese conglomerate active in retail, shopping centers and telecommunications, operating in 68 countries with annual revenues over $5 billion. The company needed to compress its database footprint, speed up overnight batch processing, and improve database manageability so central operations and thousands of retail locations could access up‑to‑date results without batch jobs spilling into the workday.

Working with Oracle Advanced Customer Support and partner TCS, Sonae migrated to Oracle Exadata to consolidate and optimize its databases. The deployment reduced Sonae’s database footprint, supported more than 250,000 daily processes and made data available to 3,000+ users each morning, with batch operations up to 5x faster and database transactions 60% faster — eliminating disruptions, enabling faster data‑driven decisions and lowering IT total cost of ownership.

Sonae

André Espírito Santo

Databases and Cloud Manager