Metropolitan Police Friendly Society (MPFS) enable highest levels of performance and security with upgrade to Oracle 11g Database
As a leading Financial Services organisation, Metropolitan Police Friendly Society (MPFS) has to ensure that their systems are operating at maximum levels of stability and security whilst complying to FSA (Financial Services Authority) regulation and their own external audit.
Teamsolve, acting as their 'Trusted Oracle Advisor', highlighted the need to upgrade their Oracle 9i environment which had fallen within the "extended support" phase of Oracle's lifetime support policy. This meant that although still a stable platform receiving updates and critical patches, there was still a small element of risk from any newly discovered bugs.
After initially considering upgrading to 10g, MPFS were quick to embrace the increased ROI that Oracle 11g Database could bring them through improved automation and more efficiently stored enterprise information.
Teamsolve fully managed and implemented the 11g upgrade project, taking away the resourcing and risk elements for MPFS. Our proven upgrade methodologies ensured that their mission critical systems were upgraded to Oracle's most recent best-practice and that the whole process was carried out with minimum disruption to system productivity.
David Hurcomb - IT Manager for MPFS said: "As the environment was a mission critical Policy Management System, it was imperative that the whole upgrade was completed with no disruption to productivity. Teamsolve's Consultants worked outside of our business hours to ensure there was no downtime experienced within this key business system".
As part of the intricately compiled project plan, Teamsolve made allowances for the testing of 11g and full contingency in the form of roll back to Oracle 10g in the event of a major issue. As the Policy Management System was core to business operations, the upgrade was conducted out of business hours - ensuring that there was no disruption to productivity.
One of the key innovations Oracle 11g boasts is around RAT (Real Application Testing); this enabled Teamsolve to pro-actively test MPFS' application stack, allowing for a speedier and more efficient upgrade of the environment.
As with any other Financial Services organisation, compliance is a huge consideration for MPFS and this was another area in which Oracle 11g excels. The ability to securely protect data and enable compliance with total recall of data will prove invaluable when meeting the regulations of bodies such as FSA (Financial Services Authority).
Upgrading to Oracle 11g will give MPFS best-of-breed Grid Computing with more self-management and automation, making it easier to:
- Partition and compress tables to store more data and run queries faster
- Securely protect and audit data, and enable total recall of data
- Run their business 24x7 with unique maximum availability architecture
- Innovate faster with confidence using Real Application Testing
- Manage more data for less with advanced table partitioning and compression
- Patch - a fully hot patchable solution, giving the ability to add patches to the live environment whilst running
For more information on how Teamsolve can help you realise the benefits of upgrading to Oracle 11g, please call 0870 11 22 000 or email info@teamsolve.co.uk.