Upgrades can be scary for any organisation. Scarier than most, perhaps, is an upgrade to a database server. The e-DBA Oracle Upgrade Programme is designed to tackle those scares. It eliminates risks, reduces cost, and improves timescales for the upgrading process.

Building on our experience

As a partner specialising in Oracle core technology offerings, e-DBA has guided many clients – with all kinds of technology – through theupgrade. Some have very large databases, or are upgrading from older releases of the database (7.3, 8.0, 8i etc). We have customers whose applications have high availability requirements. Others need a full platform migration. The relevant software in place might include RAC or Data Guard, for example.

With our record of hundreds of successful migrations across multiple platforms, let e-DBA advise you on the most efficient, lowest risk, and lowest cost migration mechanism to suit your unique technical requirements. As part of our upgrade scoping exercise, we will identify key risk areas. We will work with you to devise the best plan for robust, fully featured testing of areas that can be automated and controlled by your administrators.

Putting a number on success

The e-DBA Upgrade Programme is designed to help  customers perform an upgrade, and also quantify the benefits that upgrade provides.

The benefits could focus on a specific troublesome area, such as the overnight batch, or the quarterly reporting cycle. The Programme will also show you the overall impact across the system, and provide a strong business case for the upgrade itself.

Our upgrade project management tool allows migration to be an iterative process, and enables continual refinement of the upgrade to achieve elimination of risk and problem areas. Not only can we quantify the performance improvement you should expect, we will deliver against that objective.