Engineering an archiving solution for a set of databases using Oracle 12c ILM and In Database Archiving features.
Done in collaboration with my colleague Emiliano Fusaglia.
Multiple awr report parser and analyzer; the idea came to me while running an audit to identify bottlenecks in an Oracle infrastructure composed of two servers with many single instances. Due to lack of available time to do the work, I decided to develop a small utility which would help me to get a quick full picture of the infrastructure load. The customer was not using OEM and nothing was available to consolidate system load. Following positive impact and customer impression, it facilitate the introduction of our in-house tool capman to collect and centralize such interesting key indicators.
How to convert schema to pluggable database to increase isolation. - Presentation - Advantages - Demo
Benefits of pluggable database for upgrade process. - To new platform - To new hardware -
Renault, the prestigious French car manufacturer, has undertaken several digital transformations in recent years. As a part of its data lake journey, Renault has seen measurable success across customer satisfaction, manufacturing, and engineering. Innovative initiatives that scan data across the data lake for keywords such as ‘incidents’ help with comprehensive insights. Renault is developing end-to-end traceability to suppliers for chargebacks to gain supply chain visibility. Incorporating data across multiple real-time streams including social feeds to understand customer sentiments about brand, products, services etc. have helped Renault align with organizational KPIs. Even on the manufacturing floor, Renault leverages IoT technology to gather streaming data from their machine sensors to implement predictive maintenance. Listen to Kamelia Benchekroun, Data Lake Squad Lead, explain how Renault has been able to harness the value of their enterprise and ecosystem data.
This powerpoint slide deck is the presentation given at the Microsoft center in Waltham, MA titled Leading Practices and Insights for Managing Data Integration Initiatives.
Topics covered include:
Key Drivers
Approaches and Strategy
Tools and Products
Useful Case Studies
Success Factors
A Hybrid Cloud MultiCloud Approach to Streamline Supply Chain Data Flowjagada7
A hybrid cloud approach to using multiclouds in the supply chain brings forward the best of the best, creme-de-la-creme in each application. Functionality is thus the best, user interface the best and, access to data the best, and economics of deployment the best, and so on.
Engineering an archiving solution for a set of databases using Oracle 12c ILM and In Database Archiving features.
Done in collaboration with my colleague Emiliano Fusaglia.
Multiple awr report parser and analyzer; the idea came to me while running an audit to identify bottlenecks in an Oracle infrastructure composed of two servers with many single instances. Due to lack of available time to do the work, I decided to develop a small utility which would help me to get a quick full picture of the infrastructure load. The customer was not using OEM and nothing was available to consolidate system load. Following positive impact and customer impression, it facilitate the introduction of our in-house tool capman to collect and centralize such interesting key indicators.
How to convert schema to pluggable database to increase isolation. - Presentation - Advantages - Demo
Benefits of pluggable database for upgrade process. - To new platform - To new hardware -
Renault, the prestigious French car manufacturer, has undertaken several digital transformations in recent years. As a part of its data lake journey, Renault has seen measurable success across customer satisfaction, manufacturing, and engineering. Innovative initiatives that scan data across the data lake for keywords such as ‘incidents’ help with comprehensive insights. Renault is developing end-to-end traceability to suppliers for chargebacks to gain supply chain visibility. Incorporating data across multiple real-time streams including social feeds to understand customer sentiments about brand, products, services etc. have helped Renault align with organizational KPIs. Even on the manufacturing floor, Renault leverages IoT technology to gather streaming data from their machine sensors to implement predictive maintenance. Listen to Kamelia Benchekroun, Data Lake Squad Lead, explain how Renault has been able to harness the value of their enterprise and ecosystem data.
This powerpoint slide deck is the presentation given at the Microsoft center in Waltham, MA titled Leading Practices and Insights for Managing Data Integration Initiatives.
Topics covered include:
Key Drivers
Approaches and Strategy
Tools and Products
Useful Case Studies
Success Factors
A Hybrid Cloud MultiCloud Approach to Streamline Supply Chain Data Flowjagada7
A hybrid cloud approach to using multiclouds in the supply chain brings forward the best of the best, creme-de-la-creme in each application. Functionality is thus the best, user interface the best and, access to data the best, and economics of deployment the best, and so on.
Pentaho Data Integration: Extrayendo, integrando, normalizando y preparando m...Alex Rayón Jerez
Sesión de Pentaho Data Integration impartida en Noviembre de 2015 en el marco del Programa de Big Data y Business Intelligence de la Universidad de Deusto (detalle aquí http://bit.ly/1PhIVgJ).
Application decommissioning stop spending millions supporting legacy applicat...Flatirons Solutions®
Webinar slides describing the high costs of maintaining legacy applications and the opportunity made available by application decommissioning to free data from legacy apps, remain in compliance, and redirect valuable resources to strategic IT projects. Includes case studies based on EMC's InfoArchive platform.
Simplify Data Center Monitoring With a Single-Pane ViewHitachi Vantara
Keeping IT systems up and well tuned requires constant attention, but the task is too often complicated by separate monitoring tools required to watch applications, servers, networks and storage. This white paper discusses how system administrators can consolidate oversight of these components, particularly where DataCore SANsymphony V storage hypervisor virtualizes the storage resources. Such visibility is made possible through the integration of SANsymphony-V with Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer.
Taming the ETL beast: How LinkedIn uses metadata to run complex ETL flows rel...rajappaiyer
Data is the lifeblood of many LinkedIn products and must be delivered to the appropriate systems in a reliably and timely manner. This talk provides details of a metadata system that we built at LinkedIn to help manage the set of ETL flows that are responsible for data delivery at scale.
The Big Data Analytics Ecosystem at LinkedInrajappaiyer
LinkedIn has several data driven products that improve the experience of its users -- whether they are professionals or enterprises. Supporting this is a large ecosystem of systems and processes that provide data and insights in a timely manner to the products that are driven by it.
This talk provides an overview of the various components of this ecosystem which are:
- Hadoop
- Teradata
- Kafka
- Databus
- Camus
- Lumos
etc.
Infosys Deploys Private Cloud Solution Featuring Combined Hitachi and Microsoft® Technologies. For more information on Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Solutions please visit: http://www.hds.com/products/hitachi-unified-compute-platform/?WT.ac=us_mg_pro_ucp
Explains how backup-free storage reduces cost and complexity; provides benefits of Hitachi Content Platform; includes brief HDS backup use cases.
For more information on our Unstructured Data Management Solutions please check: http://www.hds.com/go/hitachi-abc-ebook-managing-data/
The process of data warehousing is undergoing rapidtransformation, giving rise to various new terminologies, especially due to theshift from the traditional ETL to the new ELT. Forsomeone new to the process, these additional terminologies and abbreviationsmight seem overwhelming, some may even ask, “Why does it matter if the L comesbefore the T?”
The answer lies in the infrastructure and the setup. Here iswhat the fuss is all about, the sequencing of the words and more importantly,why you should be shifting from ETL to ELT.
Ten Reasons Why Netezza Professionals Should Consider GreenplumVMware Tanzu
This webinar is for IT professionals who have devoted considerable time and effort growing their careers in and around the Netezza platform.
We’ll explore the architectural similarities and technical specifics of what makes the open source Greenplum Database a logical next step for those IT professionals wishing to leverage their MPP experience with a PostgreSQL-based database.
As the Netezza DBMS faces a significant end-of-support milestone, leveraging an open source, infrastructure-agnostic replacement that has a similar architecture will help avoid a costly migration to either a different architecture or another proprietary alternative.
Presenters :
Jacque Istok, Head of Data, Pivotal
Kelly Carrigan, Principal Consultant, EON Collective
Pentaho Data Integration: Extrayendo, integrando, normalizando y preparando m...Alex Rayón Jerez
Sesión de Pentaho Data Integration impartida en Noviembre de 2015 en el marco del Programa de Big Data y Business Intelligence de la Universidad de Deusto (detalle aquí http://bit.ly/1PhIVgJ).
Application decommissioning stop spending millions supporting legacy applicat...Flatirons Solutions®
Webinar slides describing the high costs of maintaining legacy applications and the opportunity made available by application decommissioning to free data from legacy apps, remain in compliance, and redirect valuable resources to strategic IT projects. Includes case studies based on EMC's InfoArchive platform.
Simplify Data Center Monitoring With a Single-Pane ViewHitachi Vantara
Keeping IT systems up and well tuned requires constant attention, but the task is too often complicated by separate monitoring tools required to watch applications, servers, networks and storage. This white paper discusses how system administrators can consolidate oversight of these components, particularly where DataCore SANsymphony V storage hypervisor virtualizes the storage resources. Such visibility is made possible through the integration of SANsymphony-V with Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer.
Taming the ETL beast: How LinkedIn uses metadata to run complex ETL flows rel...rajappaiyer
Data is the lifeblood of many LinkedIn products and must be delivered to the appropriate systems in a reliably and timely manner. This talk provides details of a metadata system that we built at LinkedIn to help manage the set of ETL flows that are responsible for data delivery at scale.
The Big Data Analytics Ecosystem at LinkedInrajappaiyer
LinkedIn has several data driven products that improve the experience of its users -- whether they are professionals or enterprises. Supporting this is a large ecosystem of systems and processes that provide data and insights in a timely manner to the products that are driven by it.
This talk provides an overview of the various components of this ecosystem which are:
- Hadoop
- Teradata
- Kafka
- Databus
- Camus
- Lumos
etc.
Infosys Deploys Private Cloud Solution Featuring Combined Hitachi and Microsoft® Technologies. For more information on Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Solutions please visit: http://www.hds.com/products/hitachi-unified-compute-platform/?WT.ac=us_mg_pro_ucp
Explains how backup-free storage reduces cost and complexity; provides benefits of Hitachi Content Platform; includes brief HDS backup use cases.
For more information on our Unstructured Data Management Solutions please check: http://www.hds.com/go/hitachi-abc-ebook-managing-data/
The process of data warehousing is undergoing rapidtransformation, giving rise to various new terminologies, especially due to theshift from the traditional ETL to the new ELT. Forsomeone new to the process, these additional terminologies and abbreviationsmight seem overwhelming, some may even ask, “Why does it matter if the L comesbefore the T?”
The answer lies in the infrastructure and the setup. Here iswhat the fuss is all about, the sequencing of the words and more importantly,why you should be shifting from ETL to ELT.
Ten Reasons Why Netezza Professionals Should Consider GreenplumVMware Tanzu
This webinar is for IT professionals who have devoted considerable time and effort growing their careers in and around the Netezza platform.
We’ll explore the architectural similarities and technical specifics of what makes the open source Greenplum Database a logical next step for those IT professionals wishing to leverage their MPP experience with a PostgreSQL-based database.
As the Netezza DBMS faces a significant end-of-support milestone, leveraging an open source, infrastructure-agnostic replacement that has a similar architecture will help avoid a costly migration to either a different architecture or another proprietary alternative.
Presenters :
Jacque Istok, Head of Data, Pivotal
Kelly Carrigan, Principal Consultant, EON Collective
Od léta 2003 do zimy 2004 jsem zhubnul 35 kilo. Dodnes si svou novou váhu udržuji, bude to pomalu 10 let. Hubnutí je pomalé!
Nevěřte na rychlé a lehké recepty. Otázku jak zhubnout si klade hodně lidí – i když vlastně všichni na ni známe odpověď. Jíst jen tolik, kolik spálíme. To je jediný a spolehlivý postup.
Obezita u detí je narastajúcim problémom. Problémom je, že obézne dieťa veľmi pravdepodobne zostane tučné po celý život. Žiadne také že z toho vyrastie! Chudnutie u detí síce priamo nie je najlepší nápad, ale určite sa oplatí prejsť na režim zdravej stravy a pohybu, ktorý prinesie výsledky.
10th Anniversary - The Butterfly Marketing ManuscriptJeremy Katz
http://bit.ly/BMMLR17 The Butterfly Marketing Manuscript is 10 years old. Here is a shot of the page in pdf form. However there is a banner up top commemorating this book. This document should be an in the Smithsonian due the historical significance. http://butterflymarketingmanuscriptlicensedreseller.funulz.com/
Durante l'Appathon insieme al mio team abbiamo ideato UniVersal Card soluzione di mobile banking integrata nell'app Mobile nativa di Unicredit che, a partire da un conto corrente, permette di virtualizzare una o più debit card usa e getta impostando scadenza e importo.
La peculiarità del tutto innovativa è la possibilità di cederla a terzi, il nostro intento è stato appunto quello di estendere la sua funzionalità a diverse tipologie di users, che va dunque dall'uso individuale a quello familiare (ad esempio a figli, parenti) fino a quello aziendale (tipico esempio di dipendenti in trasferta), i quali possono, nel limite dell’importo e dell’arco della sua breve durata, usufruire della virtual card, che oltre ai normali pagamenti online, di prossimità con l'NFC e tramite la generazione di un QRCode, permetterebbe il prelievo di denaro contante da ATM, utilizzando la feature del "Prelievo SMART" introdotta da Unicredit stessa
Excellent API based shipping software for SAP (http://blueharbors.com/xss). Save time and money by running a powerful, automated, fully integrated, real-time, easy-to-use shipping solution using your existing SAP system.
(1) Create carrier-specific shipping labels and shipping documents;
(2) Integrate weighing scales, bar code scanners and printers;
(3) Assign and change carriers manually or automatically;
(4) Capture freight costs and tracking numbers in SAP;
(5) Execute real-time package tracking from SAP sales orders, delivery notes and shipments;
(6) Record proof of delivery (POD) information about your shipments;
(7) Email advance shipping notifications (ASNs) to customers;
(8) Validate shipping addresses.
With the touch of a button, ship from warehouses, distribution centers, manufacturing sites, offices and stores located throughout the world using our extensive network of carriers.
This solution is suitable for many distribution scenarios, including high volume supply chains, regulated global transportation networks, cold-chain and hazardous material environments, B2C, B2B and third party distribution to support Amazon, Home Depot and the like. Activate shipping in your existing SAP system and start communicating directly with over 50 of your favorite transportation partners.
Contact us: info@blueharbors.com; +1(415)799-7769; http://blueharbors.com/xss
ORTEC’s advanced planning solution has enabled PROVIMI KLIBA SA to reduce transportation costs as well as organize administrative and operational activities more efficiently at the three company locations. The targets set for the ORTEC solution have all been achieved since implementation.
Project Integrated Distributors Incorporated
Project Details:
Integrated Distributors Incorporated (IDI), a publically traded company, has its home office located in Billings, Montana. IDI has more than 3,000 employees in the following locations:
· Billings, Montana, 600 employees
· Sao Paulo, Brazil, 580 employees
· Warsaw, Poland, 975 employees
· Sydney, Australia, 340 employees
· Tanzania, Africa, 675 employees
· Japan, China, and Hong Kong, 700 employees
IDI has accounts with major market retailers, federal governments, and large state governments. IDI operates a fleet of trucks in each country and has network interface agreements with subcontractors for freight forwarding, storage, and delivery.
IDI is responsible for the movement of goods, from multiple manufacturers and distributors to its clients, in a timely and efficient manner using cost-effective methods. Alternatively, IDI may transfer this responsibility to one of its JVs or SAs, if it is more cost-effective and the income differential is within acceptable limits.
IDI is also under pressure for several of its competitors in the logistics industry. The competitive market is driving IDI to improve its routes, delivery methods, fleet vehicles, and other facets of its business to increase profits (a strategic goal) and to reduce costs. The company realizes that the information technology infrastructure has been neglected for some time and that many operating locations are running on outdated hardware and software. On several occasions last year, IDI suffered no less than four network compromises through one of its JV Internet sites that led to the disclosure of sensitive and strategic information on contracts and mergers.
The chief information officer (CIO) made a strategic presentation to the board of directors and executive management to first assess the aging infrastructure and then, develop a multi-year phased approach to have all sites (except for JV and SA) on the same hardware and software platforms. Now that the funding has been approved for the infrastructure assessment, the CIO has asked you to update your passport, and buy some new luggage.
Information about the assessment provided to you indicates that the current state core infrastructure (switches, routers, firewalls, servers, and so on) must be capable of withstanding 10-15% growth every year for the next seven years with a three-to-four-year phased technology refresh cycle.
There is a hodgepodge of servers, switches, routers, and internal hardware firewalls. Your review also disclosed that much (almost all) of the infrastructure is woefully out-of-date in terms of patches and upgrades. This operational neglect has unduly increased the risk to the network, in terms of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Since this will be a multi-year technology upgrade project, something must be done to reduce IDI’s exposure to vulnerabilities to increase the overall security profile and reduce the risk profile.
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Overview of Supply Chain and Logistics Technology & Parcel SystemKunj Joshi 🎤
The presentation explains the modern supply chain technology and the parcel system. This presentation is just an overview of the upcoming trend in the Supply Chain Management field. The technology and the system discussed in the presentation is one of the best bounding and leading service ruling the supply chain area.
Broadband Connectivity to Rescue Vehicles: Case Jokilaakso in FinlandJuhani Lehtonen
Jokilaakso Rescue Department (Jokilaaksojen Pelastuslaitos) is the unit that provides all rescue operation and ambulance services in the north-western Finnish towns of Alavieska, Haapajärvi and Ylivieska, Raahe, Nivala, Pyhäjärvi and Kärsämäki. The target of the operation is to fulfill the demands of local services as cost efficiently and effectively as possible. Due to efficiency targets, Jokilaakso has been the forerunner of implementing modern data services that demand high availability. The natural impediment has been to include the most advanced and modern data connectivity platform in their vehicles.
IND3: Predix for Transportation (Predix Transform 2016)Predix
http://Predixtransform.com
4400 horse-power diesel-electric locomotives also are power houses of advanced software processing, analyzing massive amounts of sensor, operations, video, and even drone data. Join experts from GE Transportations on a journey through Predix powered solutions (the ‘Railroad Operating System') for fuel efficiency, emissions reduction, network velocity, and safety. And look under the hood of two core applications, GoLINC Edge Device Management and the GET Mobility Platform.
Mobile applications are software applications
which are designed to run on mobile smart phones, &
tablets, and other mobile electronic devices, during this
generation of rapid technological advances, these
applications became one altogether the predominant tools
we use daily both in our personal furthermore as
professional lives
This real customer case POC demonstrate how Exadata X5-2 with OVM can be the best consolidation solution and how it can replace existing AIX P7 infrastructure.
Almost all my customers are now running 12c release in production and some of them is using Multi-tenant. Despite that moving to Multi-tenant is not that complex, there is still some pitfalls that new customers should be aware of, like when dealing with performance & tuning. I will give you an overview of things to consider for running successfully your consolidation projects using the Multi-tenant option.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a button
Tpf oracle success_story
1. Transports publics fribourgeois Ensures Reliable Public Transportation Services with Engineered Database
Infrastructure
Fribourg, located just 17 miles from the Swiss capital Berne, is an important economic, administrative, and
educational center on the cultural border between German and French Switzerland. Transports publics
fribourgeois (TPF) SA, which is majority-owned by the canton of Fribourg, operates a 940-kilometer
public transportation network within the metropolitan area and its adjacent rural areas. Six transport
companies cover the Fribourg and the Broye regions in the canton of Vaud’s TPF’s Frimobil fare network,
where the same basic fare structure applies to all travel across the region. In 2012, the organization
transported almost 28 million passengers by road and rail.
Oracle Customer: Transports
publics fribourgeois (TPF) SA
Location: Fribourg, Switzerland
Industry: Travel and
Transportation
Employees: 700
Annual Revenue: $100 to $500
Million
Challenges
Ensure high availability of database applications—such as
route planning, vehicle management, and staff allocation—
to enable efficient and cost-effective public transportation
Protect database applications from unforeseen downtime
through hardware redundancy between production and test
environments to avoid negative impact on public
transportation—for examples, due to vehicle delays,
customer complaints, or even legal liability
Establish efficient database support to ensure that potential
issues with business-critical applications are solved
rapidly, before they become apparent to customers
Optimize use of public budgets by deploying a cost-
effective, integrated database application platform that a
small team of in-house specialists can administer
A word from Transports publics fribourgeois (TPF) SA
“Our high-availability solution, based on Oracle Database
Appliance will support future business growth, as it provides real
capacity on demand, excellent hardware and software integration, a
complete monitoring interface with plug-ins for various services,
and outstanding overall performance. It is a key tool for us, because
it enables everything, from on-time public transportation and
payroll, to cost-effective service growth.” – Grégoire Ramuz, IT
Manager, Transports publics fribourgeois (TPF) SA
2. Solutions
Deployed two Oracle Database Appliances—each equipped with four, active, central processing units (CPUs)—in clustered mode
connected via Oracle Active Data Guard—to deliver outstanding performance for the company’s core applications, which ensure every
resource planning aspect, from bus and train scheduling, to staff allocation and payroll
Improved logistics and service to customers—for example, by increasing public transport frequency during anticipated rush hours—with
high availability of core applications
Ensured cost-effective operation and maintenance of Oracle Database Appliance through a fully integrated system of software, servers,
storage, and networking with built-in diagnostics and automatic service request logs, enabling the organization to operate its IT
environment with only six employees
Created the foundation for seamless public service growth with Oracle Database Appliance’s ability to scale up to 20 CPUs on demand by
simply entering a software license key, eliminating the need for hardware upgrades during the entire lifecycle with a pay-as-you-grow
licensing model
Used Oracle Active Data Guard to establish robust disaster recovery using fully redundant systems that redirect client connections
automatically to the standby system, ensuring 24/7 operations in the case of a production system failure
Used Oracle Real Application Clusters to minimize downtime by using rolling maintenance procedures that validate patches on test
environments before applying them to the production system, with complete transparency for system administrators
Enabled faster database application development and testing with 96 gigabytes of random access memory on each cluster node—a key
requirement because public transportation is expected to grow in the booming Fribourg region
Increased backup capabilities and file sharing between applications by simply connecting Oracle Database Appliance to externally
networked, file-system-based storage systems
Used Oracle’s best practices as deployment instructions to configure Oracle Database Appliance with few commands, deploying the
solution, including definitions of Internet Protocol addresses, within three hours
Used the solution’s comprehensive monitoring interface with plug-ins for various third-party service management tools to monitoring the
platform in-house, providing more stringent control over data quality
3. Why Oracle
“Oracle Database Appliance provides the high availability and performance required for our public transportation system and allows us to scale
easily to meet changing business requirements. This way, we limit total cost of ownership, which is an important factor for an organization that
depends on public budgets,” said Grégoire Ramuz, IT manager, Transports publics fribourgeois (TPF) SA.
Implementation Process
“Trivadis’ experts designed the solution according to our requirements and budgets and deployed it on schedule in December 2012. Even though
we monitor the appliance with in-house resources and are pretty self-sufficient, we rely on a certified Oracle partner when it comes to business-
critical deployments,” Ramuz said.
Partner
“Trivadis’ experts designed the solution according to our requirements and budgets and deployed it on schedule in
December 2012. Even though we monitor the appliance with in-house resources and are pretty self-sufficient, we rely on
a certified Oracle partner when it comes to business-critical deployments,” Ramuz said
Oracle
Trivadis