In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, businesses are actively embracing cloud technology to stay competitive and agile. One critical area undergoing transformation is enterprise resource planning (ERP) infrastructure. We are empowering organizations by migrating their Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) from traditional on-premise environments to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This strategic move not only modernizes IT systems but also delivers significant cost savings by reducing the burdens of legacy hardware, maintenance, and scalability limitations.
In this post, we’ll explore how transitioning to OCI can unlock new efficiencies and future-proof your Oracle EBS deployment.
Understanding the Technologies –
On-premise Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) deployments are traditionally built on dedicated hardware servers housed within an organization’s own data centers or hosted in 3rd party data centers. These environments include physical servers for application hosting, storage systems for data management, and robust networking equipment to connect users and systems. The infrastructure must support thousands of users simultaneously, requiring powerful CPUs, large memory allocations, fast disk I/O, and high-availability network architecture to ensure optimal performance and uptime.
Networking in on-premise setups typically involves complex configurations of switches, routers, firewalls, and load balancers to manage traffic flow between users, application servers, and databases. The system is tightly controlled by internal IT teams responsible for hardware maintenance, backups, security updates, and disaster recovery. This creates a capital-intensive environment with significant ongoing operational costs and scalability challenges as business needs grow.
What is Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS)?
Oracle E-Business Suite, or EBS, is a collection of integrated business applications that help organizations manage core functions like finance, HR, procurement, inventory, and supply chain. EBS has been a staple in the enterprise world for decades, offering a robust and customizable platform for managing complex business operations.
Traditionally, EBS is deployed on-premise, meaning it runs on your company’s internal servers, requiring dedicated hardware, IT personnel, and ongoing maintenance. While reliable, this model lacks the flexibility and scalability that today’s businesses demand.
What is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)?
With the rise of cloud technologies, many organizations are migrating this Oracle EBS infrastructure from on-premise to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). OCI provides a modern, elastic, and secure cloud platform to host both the Oracle EBS applications and their associated databases. This move eliminates the need for maintaining physical hardware and complex networking gear, as resources in OCI are virtualized and dynamically scalable based on demand.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is Oracle’s next-generation cloud platform that provides high-performance computing power, storage, and networking in a secure, flexible, and cost-effective environment. OCI is designed to host workloads like EBS, databases, analytics, and even third-party applications with high availability and built-in disaster recovery.
OCI combines the benefits of public cloud (elasticity, agility, low capex) with enterprise-grade control and security. For businesses looking to modernize without completely rearchitecting their systems, migrating EBS to OCI offers the perfect balance.
In conclusion
By migrating Oracle EBS to OCI, businesses gain improved agility, reduced total cost of ownership by eliminating hardware maintenance, and enhanced scalability to support future growth. OCI’s infrastructure supports automated backups, patching, and security updates, allowing IT teams to focus more on innovation and less on routine upkeep.
Key Differences and Evolution from On-Prem to Cloud
| Feature | Oracle EBS (On-Prem) | Oracle EBS on OCI (Cloud) |
| Deployment | On internal servers | On Oracle Cloud Infrastructure |
| Scalability | Limited and manual | Elastic and on-demand |
| Maintenance | Handled by internal IT teams | Shared or managed on OCI |
| Cost Structure | High upfront and maintenance | Pay-as-you-go or subscription |
| Performance | Depends on hardware | Optimized with modern infrastructure |
| Upgrades & Patches | Manual, time-consuming | Streamlined with automation |
Why Companies Are Moving Oracle EBS to OCI
Migrating Oracle EBS to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is no longer just a tech decision—it’s a strategic business move. Companies today are under pressure to cut costs, scale quickly, and stay agile. Legacy on-prem systems simply can’t keep up.
Key Reasons for Migration:
- Cost Efficiency: Significant reduction in capital expenditures by eliminating the need for physical hardware, maintenance, and data center operations. OCI’s flexible pay-as-you-go model lowers total cost of ownership (TCO) compared to on-premise systems and other clouds.
- Performance: OCI is designed for enterprise-grade workloads, offering powerful computing resources, high-performance storage (e.g., NVMe), and low-latency networking, resulting in faster transaction processing and reporting
- Security: Oracle’s cloud infrastructure provides advanced security features, including encryption, role-based access controls, threat protection, and compliance with industry standards, which improves data protection over typical on-premise setups
- Flexibility: OCI supports lift-and-shift migration of existing Oracle EBS applications with minimal reconfiguration, preserving customizations and workflows, which reduces business disruption and retraining needs.
- Simplified Maintenance: OCI reduces the operational burden on IT teams by handling system patching, upgrades, backups, and security updates, allowing IT to focus on strategic tasks instead of routine upkeep.
What is the Migration Process?
The migration process of Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) from on-premise to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) can be summarized in five key steps:
- Assess and Plan the Migration
Conduct a thorough assessment of your current EBS environment, including modules, customizations, data volume, and dependencies. Then, create a detailed migration plan with objectives, timelines, and risk mitigation strategies to ensure business continuity during the move.
- Prepare the OCI Environment
Set up your OCI tenancy with necessary compute resources, storage, and network configurations. Establish secure connectivity between your on-premise data center and OCI, configure security policies, and prepare OCI to receive your applications and data.[
- Data and Application Migration
Use tools like Oracle EBS Cloud Manager to back up your on-premise EBS data and application components and move them to OCI object storage. Then provision your Oracle EBS environment on OCI, including application and database layers, ensuring compatibility and performance.
- Customization and Integration Migration
Migrate and adjust your custom code, workflows, and integrations to work within the OCI environment without losing any functionality. This may require reconfiguring integrations or leveraging OCI native services to maintain seamless operations.
- Testing, Go-Live, and Optimization
Thoroughly test all aspects—functional, performance, and security—to ensure the OCI environment meets requirements. After validation, execute the final cutover to OCI and continuously monitor and optimize resource usage, security, and performance post-migration.
These steps help ensure a smooth, cost-effective, and scalable transition from on-premise Oracle EBS to a modern cloud platform with OCI, minimizing disruption and maximizing business benefits.
What services are available to run the migration?
Maini is an Oracle partner that can significantly support and streamline your Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) migration to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in several ways:
- Expert Planning and Assessment: We perform thorough assessments of your current Oracle EBS environment, including modules, customizations, and dependencies, to create a tailored migration strategy aligned with your business needs and risk mitigation plans.
- Customized Migration Execution: We use proven methodologies and Oracle-recommended tools like Oracle EBS Cloud Manager to securely and efficiently migrate applications, data, and custom code to OCI with minimal disruption to your business.
- Infrastructure Design and Optimization: We can design and provision OCI environments that optimize performance, security, and scalability for Oracle EBS, ensuring the cloud infrastructure supports your workload effectively and exploits OCI’s elastic capabilities.
- Integration and Custom Code Support: We handle the migration and adaptation of your custom workflows and integrations, providing adjustments or reconfigurations to ensure seamless operations post-migration.
- Post-Migration Services and Support: After migration, we offer ongoing managed services such as performance tuning, monitoring, patching, security assessments, and 24/7 support to maintain peak system performance and reliability.
- Cost and Compliance Optimization: We help reduce total cost of ownership by leveraging OCI’s pay-as-you-go model and ensure your deployment meets compliance and security standards, safeguarding your data and applications.
- Training and Change Management: We may also provide training and change management services to ease user adoption and maximize your Oracle EBS investment in the cloud environment.
In summary, engaging a Maini Consulting brings deep Oracle expertise, industry best practices, and access to Oracle’s tools and resources, which collectively reduce migration risks, accelerate implementation, optimize cloud architecture, and ensure ongoing operational success on OCI.
Conclusion
Modern businesses demand modern infrastructure. If you’re still running Oracle EBS on-premise, it’s time to reinvent your ERP strategy. With Maini & OCI, you gain speed, scalability, security, and cost-efficiency—everything your business needs to thrive in a digital-first world.
And with Maini Consulting as your transformation partner, you won’t just migrate—you’ll evolve your enterprise to meet tomorrow’s challenges with confidence and agility.