Six Benefits: Why Migrating Your Peoplesoft to OCI Is a Game-Changer

As digital transformation continues reshaping industries and lowering costs, running systems such as PeopleSoft on-premises can become barriers to innovation and growth. Oracle continues to invest in PeopleSoft, and PeopleSoft has served as the basis of many organizations' day-to-day operations. However, these solutions can be expensive to maintain on-premises, lack scalability, and sometimes are targets for security issues. However, one of the solutions to these challenges is migrating PeopleSoft to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
There are many reasons why government agencies and businesses alike should consider migrating their PeopleSoft to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. OCI offers modernization opportunities, scalability, cost-effectiveness, support rewards, improved performance, and enhanced security. Organizations moving to OCI have achieved significant benefits while reducing their costs. Moving to the cloud can help them focus on their organization's goals, like providing constituent services and improving the quality of life for their citizens, versus spending time managing infrastructure and worrying about costly hardware upgrades.

1. Modernization and Future-proofing
The pandemic demonstrated that everyone needs to think about the future of their systems, and for government organizations, staying stagnant is not an option. The need for many governments to rapidly scale up their systems and provide additional citizen-facing services during a time of crisis demonstrated the need to be nimble. Organizations should embrace modern technologies to allow for shifts in time of need, continue providing increased services, and future-proofing operations. While it is possible to run an on-premises PeopleSoft efficiently, many governments do not have the flexibility on-premises to scale up and down their architectures and add new capabilities quickly. Migrating to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure opens doors to modernization.
Built on a cloud-native architecture, OCI provides government agencies and businesses with a scalable, flexible, and innovative platform. Organizations can add cutting-edge technologies, such as Analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML), by moving PeopleSoft to the cloud. Functional services like chatbots and mobile applications to enhance theirapplications and business processes. Customers have added chatbots to answer constituent inquiries and public-facing dashboards to show citizens how their tax dollars are being spent. The opportunities to increase service are endless.
Furthermore, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers a range of cloud services that complement PeopleSoft, including Oracle Autonomous Database, which provides automated maintenance, patching, and upgrades, enabling businesses to focus on strategic initiatives rather than mundane maintenance tasks. OCI also supports containers and serverless computing, providing developers with the tools they need to build and deploy modern, cloud-native applications seamlessly. These capabilities can complement and easily integrate with existing PeopleSoft applications. System integrators like Mythics have pre-built extensions that can be utilized with PeopleSoft to enhance the organizations' ability to provide constituent experience quickly.

2. Scalability
One of the primary challenges that many agencies with on-premises PeopleSoft face is limited scalability. As the pandemic demonstrated, organizations often face the challenge of scaling their infrastructure to accommodate increasing demands. This can result in performance bottlenecks, increased costs, and operational inefficiencies. In a government environment, procuring and implementing additional hardware and software can take months.
Migrating PeopleSoft to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure addresses these scalability concerns. Moving to OCI provides a scalable infrastructure that can quickly scale up or down to varying workload levels. Adding an application server or increasing database CPU or memory can be done quickly and effectively through the console or API calls. Whether the organization hits seasonal peaks like tax time, open enrollment, or population increases, which result in sustained growth, OCI can help organizations scale resources up or down to meet demand. This can include options from small CPU sizes to bare metal instances, which provide the full power of the underlying compute when needed.
In addition, with PeopleSoft Cloud Manager, using OCI provides several features that make running PeopleSoft more effective. PeopleSoft Cloud Manager can clone environments quickly, restore and refresh existing environments, and assist in scale-up and scale-down. This can allow organizations to deploy test and development environments as needed rapidly, saving the expense of having those environments "always on," and can reduce the overall cost of running multiple environments.

3. Operating Expense Cost Model
Cost is a critical factor in any organization's decision-making process. On-premises PeopleSoft deployments often involve substantial upfront investments in hardware, software licenses, and ongoing maintenance costs. These expenses add up, particularly for small and medium-sized governments and businesses.
Migrating to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure eliminates the need for upfront capital investments. With OCI's consumption-based cost model, organizations can avoid the burden of purchasing expensive hardware and reduce ongoing maintenance costs. Instead, they can focus on their core competencies while Oracle manages the underlying infrastructure.
As mentioned earlier, its elastic infrastructure further enhances OCI's cost-effectiveness. Government agencies can dynamically scale resources based on their needs, resulting in optimized resource utilization and cost efficiency. This level of flexibility enables businesses to allocate their IT budgets more effectively, investing in innovation and growth rather than capital expenditures.

4. Support Rewards for Cloud consumption can be applied to existing technology license support costs
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers a program called "Support Rewards," allowing customers to offset their technology license support spend using OCI. Customers can earn $0.25 rewards for every $1 of new OCI consumption ($0.33 per $1 for ULA customers) to apply against their existing technology license support. Rewards can be used to lower their Technology support bill, and for some customers, this has lowered it down to $0.
Mythics has significant experience planning and applying Support Rewards for customers as they move to the cloud. As part of our assessment process, we can forecast the amount of Support Rewards and provide a precise estimate on the Oracle license support reductions.

5. Superior Price-Performance Performance
This is a crucial factor when it comes to applications like PeopleSoft. On-premises deployments may face challenges in maintaining optimal performance, particularly during peak usage periods. Slow response times and application bottlenecks can negatively impact productivity and user satisfaction.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is designed for high-performance computing. It boasts state-of-the- art hardware and networking capabilities that ensure superior application performance. The high-speed network of OCI reduces latency, allowing PeopleSoft applications to deliver seamless user experiences.
Furthermore, OCI's distributed architecture and optimized storage solutions contribute to improved data retrieval and processing speeds. The result is a faster, more responsive PeopleSoft environment that empowers businesses to perform at their best.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's integration with Oracle Exadata Database Machine, a high- performance database appliance, enables businesses to achieve unprecedented levels of database performance and scalability. With Oracle Exadata, organizations can deliver faster transactions and real-time analytics, enhancing their ability to make data-driven decisions.

6. Security that's built-in and on by default
Data security is a paramount concern for any business, especially when it comes to critical applications like PeopleSoft that handle sensitive information. On-premises data centers require substantial investments in security measures, and any security lapses can have severe consequences.
Migrating PeopleSoft to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides organizations with a robust security framework. Data in OCI is encrypted by default to prevent data breaches. OCI incorporates industry-leading security standards and offers multiple layers of security to protect your data. Data encryption, identity and access management, and network security protocols ensure your data remains safe from potential threats.
Moreover, Oracle Cloud undergoes regular security audits and compliance assessments to maintain the highest security standards. From FedRAMP High to Department of Defense IL4, IL5, and Top Secret to HIPAA and other protections, these security commitments provide government organizations with the confidence that their data is safe and processes and procedures are in place.

7: Flexible Pricing & Consumption models using Universal Credits
Oracle Universal Credits provide a predictable, consistent way to pay for any Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) service in any region, including future releases of cloud services. Credits are debited as you use OCI services over the course of a year, giving you the flexibility to ramp up your workloads.
• Use annual commitment throughout the year on any OCI cloud services
• One simple contract
• Simplified buying experience
• Bring-your-own-license (BYOL) discounts – If you already own licenses, your costs for the
compute resources are greatly reduced
• Rate Card based pricing
In addition, Oracle's Funded Allocation Model (FAM) for public sector organizations allows organizations to issue a purchase order and then be billed in arrears based on their usage.

Conclusion
In conclusion, migrating your PeopleSoft to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers many benefits that can transform your organization's operations, reduce costs, and allow for better constituent services. By embracing modernization, scalability, cost-effectiveness, support rewards, improved performance, and enhanced security, businesses can unlock their full potential and remain competitive in a rapidly changing business landscape.

Are you ready to embark on your cloud migration journey? Contact us today to discuss how our team of experts can seamlessly migrate your PeopleSoft to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Mythics' Cloud Management Platform will provide you with a free, detailed look at the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources required, a project plan for implementation, and an estimate of implementation costs, all with just 90 minutes of your time. We will guide you through the process and show how you can take advantage of the scalability, performance, and security of OCI. Contact us today for more information and to schedule your assessment.