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OCI cloud migration: Saint-Gobain gains scalability and cuts operating costs

SQORUS supports Saint-Gobain Distribution Bâtiment France, France’s leading distributor of building materials, in the migration of its PeopleSoft ERP to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

SQORUS support

SQORUS, Oracle and Saint-Gobain: close collaboration for a successful migration

To carry out this project, Saint-Gobain relied on SQORUS, a certified Oracle partner, alongside Oracle teams. A tripartite organization (SQORUS / Oracle / Saint-Gobain) was set up to coordinate all the work involved: infrastructure, security, network and applications.

The challenge

Infrastructure under pressure to keep pace with business demands

Saint-Gobain Distribution Bâtiment France faced several major challenges:

Aging infrastructure: obsolete P8 servers requiring either hardware reinvestment or migration to the cloud

Monthly closing process under strain: month-end invoicing is extremely resource-intensive, and processing takes all day.

Lack of flexibility: inability to quickly adjust CPU resources to absorb load peaks

Complex ecosystem: more than 11 TB of data to be migrated, thousands of data flows to be secured and a hundred scripts to be transformed (from AIX to Linux Oracle).

High safety requirements: strict compliance with Saint-Gobain group standards

Background & objectives

A major retail player in search of modernization

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Saint-Gobain Distribution Bâtiment France, a subsidiary of the Saint-Gobain group, is :

12 billion € in sales
400,000 customers
22,000 employees
2,200 sales outlets across France (including Point.P and Cedeo banners)

The PeopleSoft “Calypso” ERP, in place since 2005, is at the heart of the Finance IS. After a double application upgrade in 2023-2024, the IT Department wanted to go one step further by modernizing the infrastructure to :

Gain scalability: adjust resources to demand, especially during monthly closing peaks

Guaranteeing availability: ensuring high availability with defined RTO/RPO targets

Reduce operational costs: optimize infrastructure spending with a FinOps approach

Access new services: benefit from a wide range of integrated services (database, analysis, AI, storage, APEX, Golden Gate)

Improve performance: reduce response times and optimize data processing

Reinforcing safety: overhauling standards and guaranteeing compliance with Saint-Gobain requirements

Improving carbon footprint: a GreenOps approach in line with the Group’s commitments

The SQORUS solution

A 4-stage migration strategy for a controlled transition

Faced with two possible options (reinvesting in On-Premise hardware or migrating to the Cloud), Saint-Gobain Distribution Bâtiment France chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

SQORUS designed a four-phase methodological approach to meet the specific challenges of Saint-Gobain Distribution Bâtiment France:

1. Landing Zone

2. Infrastructure

3. Migration

4. Production

5. Support

1. Landing Zone

Identification of resources and validation of existing context
Definition of a migration plan adapted to the group's constraints
Coordination with security and network teams
Laying the foundations for a governed, secure and scalable cloud environment

2. Building the infrastructure

Robust architecture designed for performance, availability and resilience
Resource configuration on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (instances, networks, storage)
Setting up Exadata services to host PeopleSoft
Deployment of a Fast Connect tunnel to optimize data transfers

3. Data migration

Incremental data transfer to minimize downtime
Transformation of a hundred scripts as part of the migration from AIX to Oracle Linux
Secure recovery operations to guarantee data integrity and consistency

4. Preparing for production launch

Secure thousands of flows with internal and external partners
Activation of supervision and DRP services
Dry runs" (full-scale simulations) to validate the schedule

5. SQORUS support

Rigorous management: 4 key milestones to validate each stage of the project and ensure Go/No-Go criteria are met
Multi-team coordination: regular alignment meetings with the right resources mobilized for each stream (security, network, infrastructure, applications).
Tailor-made approach: adapting the methodology to fit the schedule and the specificities of the context
Enhanced security: complete review and adaptation of security standards to meet Group requirements

The results

A new direction for Saint-Gobain’s Finance IS

Thanks to the expertise of SQORUS and a rigorous methodology, Saint-Gobain Distribution Bâtiment France has successfully migrated to OCI with concrete results:

Production launched in 2 days instead of the 3 initially planned

Complete migration of all environments without major incident

No disruption for users the day after the switchover

Greater stability from the very first weeks of operation

2 hours saved on the monthly billing process

First FinOps optimizations already identified and underway

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Future prospects

Towards a mature, intelligent Cloud

This successful migration marks a first for Saint-Gobain:hosting an application on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. An open door to new opportunities:

Run organization to be co-constructed: clear definition of roles and responsibilities between teams for a shared operating model

Finer FinOps monitoring: reporting, alerting and resource optimization for greater cost control

Continuous optimization: monitoring and alert thresholds to be adjusted as needed

BCP & DRP: validation of continuity plans and regular testing to ensure resilience

OCI catalog: exploring new services like APEX and OIC to enrich the application ecosystem

Our clients

Testimonial

Philippe SAMSON

Director of Finance for SGDB’s IT Department

” This project mobilized a lot of people: security, network, infrastructure, applications. We worked hand in hand with SQORUS to see it through. Being able to draw on their OCI expertise was a real asset. This migration was also an opportunity to overhaul our security and add a new layer to comply with Saint-Gobain Group requirements. It’s a great success. “

Benjamin KLAPERMAN

Head of Finance at SGDB

” The investment of the SQORUS teams enabled us to optimize the schedule and parallelize tasks. As a result, the business case has been validated, we’ve saved 2 hours on our monthly invoicing process, and the start-up has been a success, with no disruption to users. “

The SQORUS choice

Why Saint-Gobain chose SQORUS for its migration to OCI

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OCI expertise

SQORUS has in-depth knowledge of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and PeopleSoft environments, enabling a tailored approach to complex migrations.

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Mastering environments

SQORUS masters high-volume migrations and complex ecosystems, with thousands of flows and multiple players to coordinate.

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Coordination

SQORUS provides end-to-end support and coordinates all project stakeholders: security, network, infrastructure and applications.

Contact SQORUS for your OCI migration project

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