Performance Optimization for a Leading Construction Material Supplier
Challenge
The client recently acquired a new business, leading to a significant increase in user load on their Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) environment. Key challenges included:
- Verifying system performance under higher transactional volume.
- Identifying bottlenecks across the application, infrastructure, and database.
- Ensuring scalability without increased CPU or memory utilization.
Solution
IT Convergence deployed its structured Performance Testing Framework and expert QA team to conduct a comprehensive performance assessment of the Oracle EBS application.
The engagement included:
- Load Testing to simulate increased user traffic and identify performance degradations.
- Infrastructure Analysis to evaluate CPU and memory utilization under load.
- Database Review to analyze queries, connections, and I/O operations.
- Application Code Review to trace API requests causing slowdowns.
Results
- Identified key performance bottlenecks across the application and infrastructure layers.
- Provided detailed optimization recommendations to enhance responsiveness.
- Enabled the customer to plan targeted improvements in the application, database, and infrastructure.
- Improved overall system scalability and user experience.