Success Stories

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Customer Challenge

HDF Hospital Center, a leading healthcare provider, faced significant challenges driven by the rapid expansion of its hospital network, the need to migrate newly integrated facilities to the Oracle platform, and increasing demands for performance and high availability. The existing legacy Oracle databases and outdated infrastructure were no longer capable of supporting the growing ecosystem of critical healthcare applications. As a result, the hospital experienced recurring performance bottlenecks, and rising operational costs and security and compliance risks. 

Recognizing the urgent need for modernization, HDF Hospital Center partnered with Datamind, a renowned Oracle consulting and services provider, to assess their existing database environment and design a robust solution tailored to their specific requirements.

The ultimate goal was to achieve zero data loss/zero-downtime, improved performance, enhanced security and IT cost reduction while ensuring minimal downtime, and no disruption to the safeguarding life-critical applications that managed the patient records, diagnostics, and treatment plans.

Solution

Datamind team developed and executed a phased, risk-mitigated approach to upgrade and migrate more than 20 Oracle databases (spanning Production, UAT, Test and DR) to HDF new infrastructure. The key activities included:

1. Comprehensive Assessment & Planning including identifying dependencies and critical workflows
2. Solution design for a near-zero downtime migration strategy using Oracle Dataguard
3. Staged Upgrade & Migration using Oracle Data Guard and incremental data synchronization enabling seamless switchovers
4. High-Availability Deployment with Oracle RAC 
5. Enhanced backup strategy by migrating the backup to Oracle ACFS (ASM Cluster File System)—eliminating single-node dependency.
6. Disaster recovery (DR) using Oracle Dataguard and RMAN for point-in-time recovery.

Conclusion

By leveraging Oracle’s cutting-edge technologies, including Data Guard, RAC, and ACFS, Datamind successfully modernized HDF Hospital’s database environment with no compromise on patient safety or system performance. The implementation of a fully synchronized DR site at the DR data center further solidified HDF resilience ensuring business continuity for HDF.

This project stands as a testament to Datamind ability and commitment to execute mission-critical IT transformations for tier one customers, namely in the healthcare sector, with precision and reliability.