
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Backup & Recovery
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries
- Agriculture
- E-Commerce
Applicable Functions
- Procurement
- Product Research & Development
Use Cases
- Construction Management
- Infrastructure Inspection
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
IFFCO needed a reliable cloud vendor to support the processes of 6–7 new manufacturing plants during the upcoming year, enhancing its production capability 300–350 million bottles of nano urea to meet increasing demand. They also wanted to shorten innovation cycles and improve overall performance of applications at lowest possible operational overhead.
The Customer
Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Ltd. (IFFCO)
About The Customer
IFFCO is the world’s largest manufacturer and marketeer of fertilizers in the cooperative sector. It serves over 35,000 cooperatives and 55 million farmers across India. They have five manufacturing plants in India and 19 joint ventures within India and overseas. IFFCO has been using Oracle products for decades and recently adopted Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to modernize its IT estate.
The Solution
IFFCO migrated all its workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and utilized various OCI features and services such as OCI Compute, Oracle Exadata Cloud service, Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), Custom applications on OCI, Oracle Digital Assistant, OCI Load Balancing, OCI Web Application Firewall (WAF), and OCI FastConnect. They deployed their cloud infrastructure in a hub-and-spoke model with Mumbai region as the hub and Hyderabad region as the disaster recovery site.
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