Case Study: Specialized Bicycle Components achieves 17x application performance and faster backups with Oracle engineered systems

Specialized Bicycle Components Boosts Application Performance 17x, Improves Customer Experience, and Supports Growth with Engineered Systems

Specialized Bicycle Components, a global designer and manufacturer of bicycles, components, and apparel sold through thousands of retailers and dealers, faced rapid growth while needing to ensure high performance and reliability for its ERP systems and B2B portal (which handles more than 70% of orders). The company also needed faster application development and testing, robust backup/disaster-recovery and archiving, reduced IT complexity and cost, scalable infrastructure for growth, and better sustainability in its IT operations.

Specialized deployed Oracle engineered systems — Oracle SuperCluster, Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance, and Oracle Exalytics — with Oracle Advanced Customer Support to migrate datacenter operations and modernize its stack. The implementation delivered 17x application performance, 53x faster backups (full DB backup in nine minutes vs. eight hours), 12x faster analytics database cloning, a faster month‑end close (7 to 5 days), shortened planned downtime (4 to 3 days), lower storage costs, simplified vendor management, and a more responsive customer ordering experience as the company went live in 16 countries for peak season.

Specialized Bicycle Components

Ron Pollard

CIO, Specialized Bicycle Components