IBM Systems Makeover Analysis for Oracle
Environments

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Strategic imperatives facing organizations today are changing in this fast paced world. Mergers and acquisitions are requiring the rapid integration of disparate IT technologies and practices so that the business can maintain its health and competitiveness. High application availability is critical in the 24 hour business days in which most firms must compete. CIO’s face decisions on a daily basis that impact their organization’s bottom line and ability to compete.

Success in the global economy has become more and more dependent on a company’s ability to rapidly access and effectively analyze the business information available to them. "Organizations are looking to gain insight into the business to make better decisions and identify new opportunities," says Gartner analyst Colleen Graham. "This is forcing them to invest in their data assets, purchase new technology and tools that increase operational efficiency and enable better use of data management resources."¹

This critical dependence on data raises some key questions for IT managers.

Are your mission critical Oracle® database applications or E-Business Suite running at maximum efficiency?
Do you have room to grow to meet scalability needs?
Is your database flexible so that you can respond to new market opportunities?
Are you realizing the promised return on investment?
Are you planning a migration due to end of life hardware?

Planning for success

IBM can help address the concerns these questions may raise. The process begins with an IBM Systems Makeover Analysis for Oracle Environments. This assessment capture’s the dynamics of your Oracle environment based on the answers you provide and produces a detailed report with recommended migration paths and what the transformation process will take both in time and costs.

Next is the IBM Insight for Oracle® Database V2.0 tool. This automated assessment collects performance data about your production Oracle 10G or higher environment and provides detailed database usage information critical to understanding how your environment is utilized. The resulting report contains information, statistics, charts, and tables detailing:

System-wide information.
Active application server instances.
Each application server and database host.

The final step is IBM’s Systems Consolidation Evaluation Tool which provides a quick analysis of your current hardware infrastructure and proposes a high-level future IBM Power environment with supporting total cost of ownership, return on investment results, and supporting business value reports.

Each of these three assessments provide valuable insight by themselves, but when brought together, they provide you a comprehensive view of your Oracle environment. In total they will help guide your future state decision making so that you know where you’re going, how to get there, how long it will take and what the potential consolidation savings will be.