UL Adopted Oracle technologies for Business Transformation

Safety science organization simplified its IT infrastructure to support future transformation and Growth

Kuala Lumpur, 21 April, 2014 – Oracle Corporation, the world’s leading IT solutions and services provider, today announced that UL, the global safety science organization with presence in Malaysia, has implemented Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Oracle E-Business Suite as the foundation for its new IT infrastructure.

As part of its business transformation, UL embarked on a project to restructure its existing IT environment in order to create a highly scalable infrastructure that unify its IT and business systems. Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud runs up to 10 times faster than UL’s previous IT environment enabling the company to efficiently deliver information to its customers and drive better decision-making.

“The past few years have been an exciting time at UL as we embarked on both a business and IT transformation that is allowing us to deliver more value to our customers and take revenue growth to the next level,” said Christian Anschuetz, senior vice president and CIO of UL.

He added, “Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Oracle E-Business Suite have served as the backbone of this technological change, and the performance, scalability and availability of the Oracle platform has positioned us to grow and build our business well into the future.”

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud delivers an unmatched performance, scalability and manageability UL needed to meet its current and future business needs by consolidating its business applications on the single physical platform provided by Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Oracle E-Business Suite, UL has boosted operational efficiency, flexibility and speed. As a result, tasks that previously required numerous steps now can be completed by IT managers in a single click.

With the Oracle platform, UL has also been able to realize faster provisioning and deployment of applications, which has streamlined operations to allow the company to be more agile in responding to market shifts.