ABCloudz recently helped The Morning Star Company, one of the world’s largest producers of tomato products, migrate their Oracle database to SQL Server. The Morning Star Company operates three processing facilities in California, handling nearly 10% of the global tomato production. Their IT infrastructure included both Oracle and SQL Server databases, but due to the high cost of Oracle licenses, the company decided to gradually retire their Oracle servers and migrate to SQL Server. They reached out to ABCloudz for […]
Migrating databases from Oracle to SQL Server can be a daunting task, especially when dealing with date and time data. While tools like the SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) offer automated solutions, relying solely on these tools might not always yield the best performance. In this blog, we share examples of how to optimize conversion of Date and Time Conversion functions, after it was generated by SSMA. Key differences between Oracle and SQL Server Oracle and SQL Server handle date […]
Our client, a global biotech company with a presence in over 80 countries and a workforce of 4,000 employees, depends on a complex IT environment that includes both on-premises and cloud-based components. This infrastructure supports everything from research and development to manufacturing and corporate operations, with SQL Server playing a pivotal role across various environments. Given the scale and criticality of their operations, the client required a partner who could not only manage and optimize their existing SQL Server infrastructure […]
ABCloudz recently completed a significant project migrating an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) from an on-premises SQL Server 2014 to Azure Databricks for a leading global retailer operating 3,000 offline stores across 40 countries. This migration was essential for addressing physical server limitations and outdated technology that hindered data processing and storage capabilities. Embracing Big Data capabilities, our solution leveraged Azure Databricks to enhance the client’s data scalability and processing efficiency, directly impacting their ability to manage and analyze large data […]
Discover the scalable multi-tenant backend architecture and robust CI/CD process at the heart of the client-server solution we developed for our major pharmaceutical customer. Initially crafted to assist asthma patients with medication adherence, this app also enables doctors to monitor treatment progress remotely. The market success of this solution led our customer to strategically scale it, offering it to other healthcare providers under a white labeling model. To technically achieve this strategy, we needed to develop a scalable, distributed backend […]
ConcertAI, one of the leading providers of medical research software, faced a common scenario for a mature healthcare data center. Over the years, its infrastructure had become highly sophisticated but inconsistent. Some of the servers were running outdated, end-of-life operating systems and urgently needed upgrading. The client decided to implement a cloud-based solution for infrastructure migration and partnered with ABCloudz to make the system more manageable and prepare it for upcoming refinements. Our specialists suggested moving to AWS due to […]
SQL Server is a veteran in the data management market and Microsoft’s most popular relational database management system. It boasts several benefits, including fast query processing, excellent security and data restoration, easy integration with other database systems, portability, and a variety of tools and plugins to enhance database management efficiency. Moreover, migrating SQL Server to the cloud offers additional benefits, such as improved scalability, database manageability, and cost-efficiency. There are three common options for deploying SQL Server in the cloud: […]
Feng Shui is the practice of arranging pieces in living spaces to create balance with the natural world. VMWare vSphere virtualization has grown since its introduction in 1998, to being the top virtualization technology in use by companies today, holding 23% of the market. Microsoft’s SQL Server product, first released in 1988, has increased its market share to where it also holds the largest market share of industry use at almost 17%. All too often, when working with a client […]
Here’s a new entry to our series of posts on how the ABCloudz team has helped a large pharmaceutical company manage its sophisticated data infrastructure. The customer’s business is rapidly growing, which leads to a significant expansion of their data infrastructure. This infrastructure has exceeded 140 SQL Servers united by complex connections and ETL scripts. In such conditions, making all databases efficient and consistent became a challenge. The customer decided to organize and upgrade all SQL Servers and the rest […]
ABCloudz announces that we have achieved a silver competency in Application Integration as a Microsoft partner. This proves the company’s capability to effectively integrate and configure systems that run on Windows servers, Microsoft SQL, and Microsoft .NET. Being a Microsoft partner, our company has access to exclusive training coupled with the latest software solutions. This allows our team to effectively deliver and deploy solutions that can significantly improve clients’ business results. The process of earning Microsoft competency is a complicated […]
Our client is a large pharmaceutical company with a sophisticated data infrastructure. Along with the company’s rapid growth, its data infrastructure started growing as well. At one point, their data infrastructure exceeded 140 SQL Servers united by multiple scripts and connections. This growth made its maintenance more challenging and time-consuming. The customer created a professional support and monitoring team to handle any data infrastructure issues, but this did not solve the entire problem. The customer still had issues with organizing […]
It’s no secret that a modern world runs on data. This essential asset is stored in databases or data stores. And keeping such databases or data stores healthy is vital in the digital era we live in. It is also no secret that database issues can take down entire systems and cost businesses many thousands of dollars per hour. The ABCloudz team has years of experience supporting customer databases and delivering database services. A couple of our customers recently requested […]
One of the largest educational organizations in the United States had been running their data handling system in the Oracle environment. They wanted to reduce maintenance costs due to the expensive Oracle licensing model, which includes an additional fee for the partitioning feature. The ABCloudz team provided a solution for migrating the customer’s database to SQL Server. Reconstruction of the original partitioning system in SQL Server allowed us to significantly lower SQL Server maintenance costs compared to Oracle. Check out […]
One of our clients, a large financial software company, wanted to migrate their billing solution from Oracle to SQL Server. They needed to initiate this project because the migration was required by one of their strategic partners. The customer decided to implement SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) for this migration. Additionally, they needed to do the data transfer from Oracle to SQL Server. Because of the complexity of the project, the client sought software developers that would build an automated […]
One of our clients, prominent information technology company, needed to migrate its Oracle database to SQL Server so they called ABCloudz. They knew they wanted to automate the major part of the migration with SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) but there were some challenges associated with this process. First, the company’s source database code contained over 400 hierarchical queries that could not be converted with SSMA. And second, the company’s technical staff was also unable to convert such queries. By […]