ED&F Man: Streamlining Global Trade with Advanced Technology
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ED&F Man: Streamlining Global Trade with Advanced Technology
ED&F Man, a global commodities merchant operating in 55 countries was facing challenges with Oracle E-Business Suite reaching end of life. See how they modernized their infrastructure to drive the business forward.
Driving Global Agriculture
ED&F Man has been delivering excellence in the agriculture industry for 240 years. With a global infrastructure, they deliver quality products to a customer base across over 110 locations worldwide. Their ERP systems manage the seamless processing of over $6.9 billion per year worth of agriculture commodities trade.
Maintaining Business Continuity
ED&F Man's existing technology, supporting their trading applications and Oracle E-Business Suite, was nearing end-of-life. Integral to the daily running of the company, these business critical systems were in desperate need of modernization without incurring significant capital expenditure and with minimal impact to the business. They needed a migration that would reduce operational costs, upgrade disaster recovery capabilities and ensure no compromise on availability during their critical year-end period.
Strategic Cloud Implementation
To address ED&F Man's challenges, Cintra completed the migration into the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. A solution was architected to deliver extreme performance, high availability, comprehensive disaster recovery, and enhanced security. Following sign-off of the approach, the cloud infrastructure was provisioned and configured using Cintra RapidCloud automation tooling. The applications were migrated into the new cloud infrastructure where they underwent rigorous testing prior to the weekend cutover being agreed.
A Platform for the Future
This strategic migration to Oracle OCI Cloud resulted in ED&F Man retiring its legacy platforms, thus avoiding high refresh costs and significantly reducing maintenance expenses. The new Oracle Cloud platform provides ED&F Man high availability, full-stack redundancy, and improved application performance, enhancing user experience and security and providing peace of mind for the future growth of the business. Cintra's 24/7 cloud-enabled managed services team remains on-hand with proactive systems monitoring to ensure continued stability and performance optimisation allowing the ED&F Man team to stay focussed on what they do best.
Success looks like...
Cintra architects high-availability Oracle Cloud platform for three applications
On-time delivery ensures ED&F Man goes into its busy year-end period on the new platform
Complete managed services from Cintra simplify platform and application support and maintenance
Legacy to Cloud: Your Path to Modernization with Cintra
Facing the pressing challenges of a legacy platform and the looming shadow of technical debt? It's time to look to the future and evolve. Dive into a world where downtime is minimized, efficiency is maximized, and the business is aligned to a flexible technology platform.
Technical Breakdown
Starting Context: ED&F Man needed to update its trading systems and Oracle E-Business Suite, running on aging technology.
Objectives of the Migration:
Transition to a modern cloud platform.
Avoid new hardware costs and reduce operational expenses.
Enhance disaster recovery and complete migration by year-end.
Cintra's Methodological Approach:
Recommended Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for performance and high availability.
Utilized Cintra RapidCloud for setup and testing.
Coordinated a phased migration to minimize disruption.
Benefits & Advantages:
Reduced maintenance costs and avoided hardware refresh expenses.
Improved application performance and user experience.
Ensured high availability and robust security in the cloud.