What we do on OCI

Eight services, one team. The full Oracle stack from database through application layer means a single engagement can address infrastructure, licensing, compliance, and application architecture together.

01 Cloud Health Check and TCO audit

The starting point for every engagement.

We audit your Oracle Database licence estate, map it against your current deployment topology, and build a five-year TCO comparison between OCI, AWS, and Azure using your actual workload profile.

What you get:

Full 2:1 core factor exposure on AWS or Azure
BYOL opportunity on OCI for your existing licences
A vendor-neutral cost model that the CFO can take to the board

Fixed scope. Two to four weeks. No obligation to proceed.

02 OCI architecture and landing zone design

We design the OCI environment from the ground up: tenancy structure, compartment hierarchy, IAM policies, VCN topology, FastConnect or VPN connectivity, and the Oracle Database service configuration that fits your workload. Autonomous Database, Database System, or Exadata Database Service, depending on what your applications actually require.

High availability and disaster recovery use Oracle Data Guard with cross-region replication and automatic failover configured to your RTO and RPO.

For DORA-regulated clients, the DR architecture satisfies DORA's testing and documentation requirements from the design phase, before a regulatory inspection finds the gaps.

03 Zero-Downtime Migration (ZDM)

ZDM is Oracle's own tooling. The migration runs Data Guard replication between the source and OCI target, validates the target against defined acceptance criteria, and executes a switchover that involves seconds of connection interruption rather than hours of downtime.

Delivered for:

Multi-terabyte production databases
RAC clusters with native topology preserved on OCI
Exadata to Exadata Database Service with Smart Scan optimisations preserved
Cross-version migrations using Oracle GoldenGate

Every migration includes a tested rollback procedure executable in minutes.

04 Regulatory compliance architecture

DORA, GDPR, KNF, EBA, BaFin. These are architecture requirements, not documentation tasks.

Standard implementation includes:

Maximum Security Zones
Oracle Vault for encryption key management
FastConnect private connectivity
Cloud Guard for continuous security monitoring
Audit logging configured for regulatory inspection evidence

For EU Sovereign Cloud deployments:

OCI regions in EU member states, EU-only personnel access controls, and the technical verification mechanisms that satisfy a regulatory audit. Verifiable technical isolation, not a contractual commitment to data residency.

The KNF, BaFin, or EBA documentation package, including risk assessment, data residency documentation, business continuity plan with tested scenarios, and exit strategy, is delivered as a standard component of the engagement.

05 FinOps and cost governance

In unmanaged cloud environments, 25 to 40 percent of cloud spend is typically waste: idle reserved instances, over-provisioned compute that was never right-sized, orphaned storage, and egress costs that were not in the original TCO model.

FinOps governance covers:

Monthly cost analysis with allocation by workload and business unit
Reserved capacity planning reviewed annually
Right-sizing reviews of provisioned instances
Auto-scaling policy implementation
Cost anomaly alerting

OCI's pricing eliminates several AWS and Azure cost drivers structurally: no per-GB egress charges at scale, simpler reserved capacity model. Ongoing governance is what sustains the savings.

06 Managed OCI services

Your team focuses on business applications. We run the infrastructure.

Managed services include:

24/7 monitoring with Oracle Observability and Management tools
Incident detection and response with defined SLAs
Oracle Database performance management: AWR analysis, execution plan management, wait event investigation
Patch management on a defined schedule
RMAN backup management with tested recovery
Data Guard health monitoring
Annual DR testing with documented results for DORA and national regulator reporting

The same team that built the environment operates it. No knowledge transfer to a separate support organisation.

07 Cloud-native modernisation on OCI

Oracle Autonomous Database eliminates patching, backup, tuning, and scaling from DBA operational overhead
Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) for container-native application deployment with automated scaling and CI/CD
OCI AI services, including OCI Data Science, Oracle Database 23ai vector search, and OCI Generative AI, built on your own Oracle Database data
Oracle APEX Service on OCI with auto-scaling and managed infrastructure

Pretius covers OCI infrastructure and Oracle APEX development in the same team.

Application and infrastructure migrations are designed together, not handed off between vendors.

08 Oracle Forms and APEX modernisation on OCI

Oracle Forms applications need to be addressed as part of any OCI migration. Two paths:

Containerisation – Forms to OCI using WebLogic. Existing functionality preserved, cloud infrastructure gained.
Modernisation – Forms to Oracle APEX. Cloud-native application on Oracle's low-code platform, replacing the Forms interface while preserving the underlying business logic.

Pretius is one of the most experienced Forms-to-APEX migration teams in Europe.

That practice runs alongside the OCI infrastructure capability, so a Forms application and the Oracle Database it depends on can be addressed in a single engagement.

The situations where we deliver the most measurable value

You run Oracle Database on AWS or Azure and have never conducted a formal Oracle licence audit. The 2:1 core factor exposure is typically larger than expected and almost always discovered for the first time in a Health Check
.

Your cloud bills are higher than projected when you migrated, with no clear path to reduce them.

You are subject to DORA, and your current cloud architecture was not designed to satisfy its DR testing, third-party risk management, or incident reporting requirements.

Your Exadata or on-premise Oracle server hardware support contracts expire within 12 to 18 months, and the hardware refresh vs. cloud migration decision needs to be made now.

You have Oracle workloads spread across multiple cloud providers and on-premise environments after a merger or acquisition, with no unified licensing governance or cost visibility.

You migrated to AWS or Azure 18 to 36 months ago and are experiencing higher costs, performance below on-premise, and growing technical debt.

You attempted a lift-and-shift migration and lost Exadata Smart Scan or RAC native clustering in the process.

Your compliance or security team cannot produce audit evidence that would satisfy a regulatory inspection.

Why Oracle workloads perform better and cost less on OCI

This comparison is specific to Oracle Database workloads. For non-Oracle workloads, AWS and Azure may be the better choice. For Oracle Database, the platform differences are structural and material.

Criteria

AWS and Azure

OCI

Oracle licence core factor

2:1 on every physical core.

1:1

BYOL economics

BYOL at 2:1. Existing licences cover only half the licensing requirement.

Full BYOL at 1:1. Existing Exadata licences at near-zero incremental cost.

RAC support

Not native. Requires third-party replication without equivalent capability.

Native. Same topology and failover as on-premise.

Exadata Smart Scan

Not available. Exadata-optimised workloads run without storage cell offload.

Fully available via Exadata Database Service.

Network performance

Noisy Neighbor effect. Performance variability on shared hosts.

Off-box network virtualisation. I/O separated from the compute host.

Egress costs

Charged per GB. Common source of unmodelled TCO overage.

Included at scale. No per-GB egress charges at AWS/Azure rates.

Sovereign cloud

Software overlay on shared global infrastructure. Contractual, not technical isolation.

EU Sovereign Cloud with verifiable physical isolation and EU-only personnel.

DORA compliance

Requires significant additional tooling and configuration.

Maximum Security Zones, native Data Guard for tested RTO/RPO, OCI third-party risk documentation.

Autonomous Database

Not available.

Available natively. Eliminates the majority of DBA operational overhead.

The Oracle technologies we run, migrate, and optimise on OCI

Generic cloud partners operate OCI infrastructure. Pretius operates the Oracle stack that runs on it.

Oracle Database

Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition 2, Oracle Database 23ai. AWR-level performance tuning, RMAN backup and recovery, and patch management on Oracle's CPU and PSU schedule.

Exadata and Exadata Database Service

On-premise Exadata to Exadata Database Service migration preserving Smart Scan optimisations. Full BYOL TCO modelling for existing Exadata licences. RAC-to-OCI migration using Oracle's recommended tooling.

Real Application Clusters (RAC)

Native RAC support on OCI is one of the platform's most significant technical advantages over AWS and Azure. We design and migrate RAC configurations, preserving active-active topology and automatic failover behaviour.

Oracle Data Guard

HA and DR configuration across OCI availability domains and regions. Fast-Start Failover with Observer placement. Annual DR tests with RTO/RPO documentation for DORA and national regulator reporting.

Oracle Autonomous Database

Migration from Database System to ATP or ADW, where workload patterns support it. Eliminates patching, backup, tuning, and scaling from DBA operational overhead.

Oracle APEX on OCI

APEX Service on OCI or self-managed APEX on OCI Compute. Auto-scaling, managed infrastructure, integration with OCI IAM and networking. Combined with Forms migration capability, this covers the full Forms-to-APEX-on-OCI path in a single engagement.

Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE)

Containerisation of Java and other application workloads. Automated scaling, rolling deployments, CI/CD via OCI DevOps pipelines. Infrastructure as code using Terraform for OCI.

Oracle GoldenGate

Logical replication for cross-version migrations, heterogeneous source environments, and low-latency replication between OCI and on-premise.

OCI Security services

Maximum Security Zones, Oracle Vault, Cloud Guard, Bastion service, and the network security architecture required for regulated environments.

OCI AI and ML services

OCI Data Science, Oracle Database 23ai vector search and AI integration, OCI Generative AI. Built on your own Oracle Database data rather than generic training sets.

53% cloud cost reduction in 7 months. Regulated insurance sector. Audited.

The situation:

A leading European financial services organisation was running Oracle Database workloads on AWS. Infrastructure costs were escalating with no optimisation path. The architecture did not fully satisfy the data residency and compliance requirements of the insurance sector. Change was necessary, but it had to maintain continuous regulatory compliance throughout the transition

What we did:

We audited the full Oracle licence estate and cloud footprint, identifying the complete 2:1 core factor exposure on AWS, the BYOL opportunity on OCI, and the architecture gaps against the organisation's regulatory obligations.

We designed a migration from AWS to OCI using ZDM tooling, with Maximum Security Zones and GDPR-compliant data residency configured from day one.

The result:

Cloud cost reduction

months

From audit to outcome

0 hours

Unplanned downtime

Day one

Full regulatory compliance

Actual cloud spend before migration compared to actual cloud spend after migration, for a production Oracle workload in a regulated European environment. The combination that produced the result: eliminating the 2:1 core factor penalty, exploiting BYOL on OCI, right-sizing compute instances to OCI's architecture, and eliminating AWS egress costs.

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Oracle cloud environments we regularly inherit – and what is wrong with them

1. Oracle Database on AWS, performance below on-premise

The most common complaint. The Noisy Neighbor effect on AWS creates I/O and CPU variability absent from dedicated Oracle infrastructure. For write-intensive OLTP workloads, this produces latency spikes that did not appear in the migration POC but emerged under production load.

Fix: OCI's off-box network virtualisation physically removes network and storage I/O from the shared compute host, eliminating the interference at the architectural level.

2. RAC configured with third-party replication instead of native clustering

AWS and Azure do not support Oracle RAC natively. Organisations implemented third-party replication as a workaround, which does not support transparent application failover, adds licensing cost, and introduces additional failure modes.

Fix: native RAC deployment on OCI with the same topology and behaviour as the on-premise environment.

3. Exadata Smart Scan disabled in the cloud

When Exadata environments are migrated to non-OCI clouds, the Exadata storage layer is lost. The workload runs, but without the storage cell offload optimisation that was a primary reason the organisation purchased Exadata.

Fix: OCI's Exadata Database Service preserves Smart Scan along with IORM policies and storage indexing.

4. Cloud costs higher than on-premise, no clear cause

Typically a combination of: compute sized conservatively at migration time and never right-sized; egress charges not modelled; data transfer costs between availability zones; and AWS or Azure reserved instance complexity not actively managed.

Fix: right-sizing, reserved capacity optimisation, and architectural changes to reduce inter-zone data transfer typically recover 20 to 40 percent of monthly spend.

5. BYOL licences not exploited on OCI

Existing Oracle Database licences, including Exadata system licences, have direct BYOL applicability on OCI at a 1:1 core factor. The licence value is already paid for. The infrastructure cost on OCI for those workloads is the compute and storage cost with the license credited.

Fix: licence audit identifies the unexploited BYOL opportunity specifically.

6. Security architecture built for convenience, not compliance

IAM policies with administrative permissions granted during migration and never reviewed; network security groups with permissive ingress rules; storage volumes without encryption at rest.

Fix: OCI's Maximum Security Zones prevent these configurations by design. Resources created within a Maximum Security Zone cannot violate the defined security policy.

7. DR document exists, DR capability does not

A documented DR plan describes what would happen. A tested DR capability has happened, with measured results. For DORA-regulated organisations, only the latter satisfies regulatory requirements.

Fix: Data Guard configurations with tested failover procedures and results documented in the format of DORA's reporting requirements.

Why Pretius for OCI

Oracle Partner with full-stack Oracle depth

Oracle Partner status requires certified headcount and demonstrated delivery. What the certification does not capture is the depth of Oracle-specific knowledge required to design OCI architectures that actually exploit the platform's advantages.

The 2:1 core factor modelling requires Oracle licensing expertise. Native RAC design on OCI requires Oracle clustering architecture knowledge. Exadata Database Service configuration requires an understanding of Oracle's storage cell offload technology. Data Guard configuration for a DORA-compliant RTO requires Oracle HA architecture expertise.

These are Oracle skills, not cloud skills. They are what separates OCI architectures that deliver the platform's advantages from ones that replicate a more expensive version of what was already running on AWS.

7 Oracle ACEs

Oracle ACE designation is Oracle's formal recognition of technical mastery and community contribution. It is awarded through a documented nomination and approval process, not through completing certification courses.

Pretius has 7 Oracle ACEs covering database, APEX, and cloud architecture — making it one of the most Oracle ACE-concentrated delivery organisations in Europe.

Full Oracle stack in one team

Database architecture, Oracle APEX development, Oracle Forms migration, and OCI infrastructure delivery in a single team.

An OCI partner that covers only the infrastructure layer will migrate the database but cannot advise on the Oracle APEX applications that depend on it, or the Oracle Forms applications that need to be addressed as part of the migration. We scope and deliver the complete Oracle landscape migration in a single engagement.

Delivered results in production

53% cloud cost reduction for a regulated insurance client – audited, not projected.
TVN Warner Bros. Discovery (Player.pl) VOD platform on OCI, 60 million monthly viewers.
Zero-downtime migrations of production Oracle databases, including RAC and multi-terabyte PDB environments.

ISO 27001, GDPR-native, EU operations

ISO 27001 certification is a procurement prerequisite in regulated-industry vendor assessments. GDPR compliance is structural in our EU-based operations. For organisations subject to national financial regulator cloud guidelines, our European operating base is part of the compliance architecture picture.

We are a top-rated software development company for a reason

Oracle Partner status

Recognized expertise in the Oracle ecosystem, ensuring we have direct lines of support and the latest best practices.

5 Oracle ACEs on board

Many of our leadership and senior team members are individuals formally recognized by Oracle for their technical mastery and their dedication to the community.

Deep stack understanding

20 years of experience with the Oracle technology stack. Unlike generic cloud vendors, we understand the underlying PL/SQL, Forms, and APEX logic of your applications, ensuring the infrastructure supports the code perfectly.

+ projects

Successfully delivered over 1000 diverse and impactful software projects.

+ Specialists

A deep bench of developers, architects, and security experts ready to scale with your project.

Security first

ISO 27001 certified, ensuring your migration handles data with the highest standard of care.

Our process

Pretius acts as a dedicated partner, not just a software vendor. We focus on delivering practical software solutions that contribute to your business objectives at every stage of our engagement.

Our process

Pretius acts as a dedicated partner, not just a software vendor. We focus on delivering practical software solutions that contribute to your business objectives at every stage of our engagement.

01

Discovery & TCO

We begin with a comprehensive analysis of your current technology estate—whether it resides on-premise or on another cloud platform. Our experts conduct a deep-dive audit of your resource consumption, licensing arrangements (including CSIs and existing contracts), and performance requirements to calculate the precise and transparent Total Cost of Ownership for migrating to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), giving you a clear financial roadmap.

02

Architecture design

Based on the TCO analysis and your specific regulatory requirements, we design a highly secure, performant, and future-proof Landing Zone on OCI. This design is meticulously crafted to ensure compliance with your security mandates, data residency requirements (sovereignty), and all industry-specific standards from the very beginning.

03

Proof of Concept (PoC)

Before committing to a full-scale migration, we conduct a focused Proof of Concept. We migrate a carefully selected, non-critical workload to the designed OCI environment. This step allows us to conclusively demonstrate the expected performance gains, validate the security and compliance architecture, and confirm the migration methodology to ensure a predictable outcome.

04

Migration (ZDM)

We execute the full-scale migration using proven Zero-Downtime Migration (ZDM) techniques and advanced tooling. This approach ensures that your mission-critical applications and day-to-day business operations remain completely uninterrupted throughout the entire transition, minimizing risk and guaranteeing business continuity.

05

Optimization

Following the successful migration, we conduct a thorough post-migration review and optimization phase. This critical step involves right-sizing all provisioned OCI instances, fine-tuning resource allocation, and implementing automated scaling policies. The goal is to ensure immediate performance improvements and deliver the promised long-term cost savings by eliminating resource waste.

Flexible project approaches

We offer flexible collaboration models tailored to your specific needs and project requirements:

01 Co-creation

Our distinctive approach, frequently utilized in low-code projects but adaptable to various contexts. This model integrates our developers directly with your in-house team. Together, we design and develop the solution, fostering mutual learning and knowledge transfer. This "triple win" ensures the system is perfectly aligned with your needs, builds internal expertise for future maintenance and extension, and provides us with valuable industry-specific knowledge.

03

02 Dedicated development teams

If you have a clear vision but require additional resources to bring it to life while maintaining internal control, we can provide complete, cross-functional teams. These are not just developers but also analysts, testers, designers, DevOps experts, and experienced team leaders and project managers, acting as an extension of your own workforce.

02

03 Comprehensive project delivery

If you prefer a traditional approach to software development with clearly defined boundaries, we can take full ownership of the project lifecycle. This includes the design, development, and delivery of the solution, with optional ongoing maintenance, requiring minimal involvement from your side.

04 Team augmentation

When you need to quickly fill specific skill gaps within your existing team, we can provide experienced specialists with expertise in particular frameworks and technologies to seamlessly integrate with and strengthen your in-house capabilities.

What our clients say

Bilal Ramadan

Chief Executive Officer at Munich Re HealthTech

The solution is secure, scalable, and compatible with most technologies used by Munich Re HealthTech’s clients. It’s also much cheaper to maintain which was an important success criteria factor. Application licensing costs were largely reduced.

Radosław Olkiewicz

CEO at Profitowi

Thanks to the new client needs analysis system, our sales process is much easier and standardized. It helps our Experts better tailor insurance or financial solutions to the needs of the client. This results in increased sales to new clients and smooth upselling to existing ones.

Przemysław Wilary

IT Project Manager at Play

We were impressed with Pretius' experience in the telecom industry. They proposed a few unique solutions that enabled our employees to configure individual offers faster than ever before.

Marek Samujłło

CIO of Emitel

What I like the most, as the CIO, is that the people at Pretius care not only about technology itself but rather about how this technology can help your company achieve business goals.

Zuzanna Świętorzecka

Head of Bancassurance at BNP Paribas

The communication throughout the project was very good as Pretius provided us with a Project Manager who always addressed our needs. The most impressive thing was how quickly the team developed a fully working, market-ready software solution for us.

Konrad Gałecki

Digital Manager at Philip Morris Distribution

Usually, you can either get a high-quality software solution or have it developed fast. However, thanks to choosing the right technology, the Pretius team was able to provide us with a fully working platform in a relatively short time.

Artur Męcina

IT Manager at T-Mobile Poland

The most important thing about Pretius is that they care to understand your business goals. And, having a bunch of enterprise-grade and SME-grade projects under their belt, they’re very good at it.

Renata Kania

Senior Security Awareness Specialist at T-Mobile

Pretius has quite a few huge, enterprise-grade projects in their portfolio. I believe the reason for this is that they go the extra mile to understand the partner’s business goals and do what they can to provide a software solution that meets these goals.

Piotr Blaszczyk

Executive Director of EBS

Pretius has a lot of experience in dealing with big, enterprise-grade companies like ours. They’ve proved they have a keen understanding of our needs and business goals.

Adam Kasperowicz

CIO at VAN group

The new e-VAN system has become an innovative tool and work environment. The development team allows us to use the potential of the latest trends and technological solutions: web & mobile development, responsiveness, integrations, low-code, and cloud computing.

Graem Lourens

Co-Founder & CTO at Lourens Systems

They’ve garnered our confidence and loyalty through their technical skills and the deep involvement.

Marijn van den Berg

Team Manager of Obsurv Software at Sweco

Thanks to our collaboration with Pretius, we've made it easier for our clients to utilize Obsurv. Customizing the application modules to their specific needs is now much quicker and more efficient. For us, this means shorter customer onboarding times and lower costs.

Gordian Ratajczak

Product Owner at Neuroflash

They effectively assess a project and allocate the matching resources, which gives confidence that you are in good hands. Issues and tasks are handled proactively and communication stands on a firm ground of mutual understanding and goals. You are not hiring an external resource, but you are gaining a team member.

Esteban Michalowski

CTO at AltaPay

I’ve always found interactions with Pretius (previous IN Team) to be both streamlined, light, and effective. Pretius always seeks ways to improve, and have a process for ensuring the collaboration is going according to expectations.

Richard Coombes

Head of Engineering at Equals Money

They allowed us to deliver against our 20/21 roadmaps, launching new products to market and increasing company revenue by over 70%.

FAQ

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a cloud computing service offered by Oracle Corporation. It is designed to run complex, mission-critical workloads and offers a high-performance, secure, and compliant environment. OCI is often utilized for running Oracle's own technologies, such as Exadata, Forms, APEX, and Databases, and provides features like agility and sovereignty, positioned to help customers break free from legacy technical debt.

Oracle's sovereign cloud refers to an OCI architecture designed to meet strict local data residency and regulatory compliance requirements for industries where data residency is not optional.

Key aspects include:

Data Residency: Solutions are designed to ensure data never leaves specific legal jurisdictions, for example, by leveraging EU Sovereign Cloud regions, to meet strict data sovereignty requirements.
Regulatory Alignment: Architectures are meticulously crafted to align with major regulatory standards such as GDPR, specific banking and finance regulations (like KNF and EBA), and stringent healthcare standards.

Yes, we specialize in multi-cloud and cloud-to-cloud migrations, particularly for Oracle workloads where OCI often offers better performance/price ratios.

Not necessarily. We can "lift and shift" Forms using WebLogic on OCI, but we also recommend (and offer) modernization services to convert Forms to APEX for a true cloud-native experience.

We review your current Oracle CSIs and contracts to recommend the most cost-effective path, whether that is BYOL (Bring Your Own License) or converting to OCI-included licensing.

Oracle's licensing policy requires two Oracle Database processor licences for every physical core on AWS and Azure. On OCI, the factor is 1:1.

For an enterprise running Oracle Enterprise Edition on a 64-vCPU AWS instance, the difference exceeds $1.5M on that single instance. The full exposure across an estate depends on your edition, number of vCPUs, and whether you have existing licences that could be exploited under BYOL on OCI.

Our Cloud Health Check quantifies your specific exposure within two to four weeks, at no obligation.

ZDM is Oracle's own tooling for migrating Oracle Databases to OCI with zero planned downtime. The approach: establish the OCI target, synchronise data using Data Guard physical replication (or GoldenGate for cross-version migrations), validate the target environment, execute the switchover — seconds of connection interruption rather than hours of downtime — and decommission the source.

We have delivered ZDM for multi-terabyte production databases, RAC clusters, and Exadata environments. Every migration includes a tested rollback procedure executable in minutes.

Yes, for two reasons. First, the 2:1 core factor is an ongoing cost that compounds across the remaining contract term. The break-even point and whether early termination economics are worth exploring depend on your specific exposure, which the Health Check quantifies.

Second, most AWS and Azure contracts are for compute, not for Oracle licences. The licence cost is separate and can be restructured independently of the infrastructure contract.

DORA requires: tested DR with documented RTO and RPO; ICT third-party risk management with technical depth; incident detection and reporting within defined timeframes; and digital operational resilience testing.

Many organisations that migrated Oracle workloads to AWS or Azure before DORA's requirements were finalised are now operating cloud architectures that do not satisfy these requirements. We design OCI environments that satisfy DORA requirements by design — DR configurations with tested failover, Maximum Security Zones, and OCI-specific third-party risk documentation for inclusion in ICT risk registers.

OCI's EU Sovereign Cloud is physically located in EU member states, operated by EU-based personnel, with technical access controls preventing non-EU Oracle staff from accessing customer environments. This provides verifiable technical isolation — not just a contractual commitment to EU data residency.

EU Sovereign Cloud is required when your regulatory obligations — KNF, BaFin, ACPR, sector-specific frameworks — require you to demonstrate through technical evidence that specific data has not traversed non-EU infrastructure.

Yes. We offer two paths: containerisation of Forms to OCI using WebLogic, which preserves existing functionality while gaining cloud infrastructure; or modernisation to Oracle APEX, which replaces Forms with a cloud-native application built on Oracle's low-code platform.

We are one of the most experienced Oracle Forms-to-APEX migration teams in Europe. That practice runs alongside our OCI infrastructure capability in the same team.

Cloud Health Check: two to four weeks. Proof of Concept migrating one non-critical workload: two to four weeks additional. Full production migration for a straightforward Oracle Database workload: three to six months from design to go-live. Complex environments with RAC, Exadata, application tiers, and regulatory compliance architecture: six to twelve months for the full programme.

The Health Check establishes a cost model for the full engagement as part of its deliverables.

Maximize the power of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Secure migrations, sovereign compliance, and deep cost optimization from an Oracle Partner that knows the ecosystem inside out.

What this means in practice

What we do on OCI

01

Cloud Health Check and TCO audit

02

OCI architecture and landing zone design

03

Zero-Downtime Migration (ZDM)

04

Regulatory compliance architecture

05

FinOps and cost governance

06

Managed OCI services

07

Cloud-native modernisation on OCI

08

Oracle Forms and APEX modernisation on OCI

The situations where we deliver the most measurable value

Why Oracle workloads perform better and cost less on OCI

This comparison is specific to Oracle Database workloads. For non-Oracle workloads, AWS and Azure may be the better choice. For Oracle Database, the platform differences are structural and material.

Criteria

AWS and Azure

OCI

Oracle licence core factor

BYOL economics

RAC support

Exadata Smart Scan

Network performance

Egress costs

Sovereign cloud

DORA compliance

Autonomous Database

The Oracle technologies we run, migrate, and optimise on OCI

Oracle Database

Exadata and Exadata Database Service

Real Application Clusters (RAC)

Oracle Data Guard

Oracle Autonomous Database

Oracle APEX on OCI

Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE)

Oracle GoldenGate

OCI Security services

OCI AI and ML services

53% cloud cost reduction in 7 months. Regulated insurance sector. Audited.

The situation:

What we did:

The result:

0 hours

Day one

Ready to optimize your infrastructure?

Stop guessing about cloud costs and compliance. Get a clear roadmap for your OCI journey.

Oracle cloud environments we regularly inherit – and what is wrong with them

1. Oracle Database on AWS, performance below on-premise

2. RAC configured with third-party replication instead of native clustering

3. Exadata Smart Scan disabled in the cloud

4. Cloud costs higher than on-premise, no clear cause

5. BYOL licences not exploited on OCI

6. Security architecture built for convenience, not compliance

7. DR document exists, DR capability does not

Why Pretius for OCI

Oracle Partner with full-stack Oracle depth

7 Oracle ACEs

Full Oracle stack in one team

Delivered results in production

ISO 27001, GDPR-native, EU operations

We are a top-rated software development company for a reason

Oracle Partner status

5 Oracle ACEs on board

Deep stack understanding

Security first

We keep your data safe: ISO certified

Want to see more?

Book a no-obligation discovery call and find out how quickly we can create a Proof of Concept for your solution!

Our process

Our process

Pretius acts as a dedicated partner, not just a software vendor. We focus on delivering practical software solutions that contribute to your business objectives at every stage of our engagement.

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