1. Gonzaga Moves Student Workloads to Oracle Cloud to Reduce Costs and Enable Agility
Oracle OpenWorld
October 22, 2018

2. GONZAGA UNIVERSITY/ Oracle OpenWorld 2018
Who are we?
Gonzaga University is a private, liberal arts, co-ed institution.
Our 152 acre campus is located in Spokane, Washington
We have just over 7,500 students of which 70% are undergraduates and 30% are graduate students
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3. GONZAGA UNIVERSITY/ Oracle OpenWorld 2018
Who are we?
Bing Crosby is our most famous alumnus
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4. GONZAGA UNIVERSITY/ Oracle OpenWorld 2018
Who are we? We are GU!
And... For those of you who are sports fans, we have a REALLY good basketball program!
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5. GONZAGA UNIVERSITY/ Oracle OpenWorld 2018
Project Overview
Early Notified of mandatory upgrade
Faced with a choice
Transition to a new ERP
Upgrade to Banner 9
Decision was made to complete the upgrade
In early 2017, Ellucian, the development company for Banner, stated that they would no longer provide development, patches, fixes or regulatory updates to Banner INB (Banner 8) as of December 18, 2018
Banner was built on Oracle forms and the upgrade to Banner 9 was their opportunity for Ellucian to move away from Oracle Forms.
We had a choice- to either complete the upgrade to Banner 9 or transition to a new ERP system.
We determined that we didn’t have the time to transition to a new ERP, so we decided to move ahead with the upgrade.
But we knew the clock was ticking!!
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6. Project Overview: The Clock Was Ticking....
The definitive deadline of December, 2018 was looming, but we saw this as a huge opportunity to make significant changes to our system and infrastructure.
We started by evaluating our current state from an infrastructure, security & business continuity perspective. Banner INB was housed on prem, and the university was at risk from a business continuity perspective should a large scale disaster occur.
With these considerations, we decided to move from on-prem to the cloud
Evaluated multiple options and selected OCI 
Designed, built-out cloud infrastructure
Completed ERP upgrade for both Administrative and Self –Service features /Move to SSO 
Cutover to OCI/ “go live” with ERP upgrade on 7/26/18
AND THIS WAS ALL DONE IN 7 MONTHS! With that brief overview, I will turn it over to Darren Owsley, Gonzaga’s Chief Technology Officer who will be sharing his thoughts on the business drivers that took us to OCI.
November 16, 2018
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7. Project Overview: The Clock Was Ticking....
AND THIS WAS ALL DONE IN 7 MONTHS! With that brief overview, I will turn it over to Darren Owsley, Gonzaga’s Chief Technology Officer who will be sharing his thoughts on the business drivers that took us to OCI.

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Business Drivers-Move to the Cloud
Database and storage
On Prem infrastructure (Banner INB)
- Data center 
Business Continuity
Budget/ Expenses
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Why not AWS or Azure?
ERP sits on an Oracle database
Operating System = Linux (30+ Virtual Machines)
Tomcat/WebLogic
Oracle Support
Budget
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10. GONZAGA UNIVERSITY/ Oracle OpenWorld 2018
Budget Breakdown
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Project Goals for Infrastructure
Information Security
Data Categorization
Access
Hardening
Monitoring
Business Continuity (DR and HA)
- Full DR plan
- Highly available
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Information Security: Segmentation
Data Categorization
-Category I – Public use
-Category II – Internal Use
-Category III – Sensitive
-Category IV – Highly Sensitive
Source: Data Categorization. (n.d.). Retrieved from Georgia Tech Cyber Security:
Access
-How does each part of the application communicate?
-What are the risks associated with each application?
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Business Continuity
Guidance from Business Impact Assessment (BIA)
Prioritize HA and Automation
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14. GONZAGA UNIVERSITY/ Oracle OpenWorld 2018
Oracle Sales
For a good time call
Steve Little: Oracle sales guy
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architecture
Public Load Balancer
NG Firewall
Private LB
App Servers DB
Supporting Services
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16. GONZAGA UNIVERSITY/ Oracle OpenWorld 2018
Infrastructure Challenges
First time for everyone!
OCI Limitations
- Refactoring
VPN
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17. Journey to Banner 9 March 2017-Cascade
August  Oracle 12c upgrade
December 2017 – Move to CDB and OCI  using DBaaS
Feb Build Test environment OCI
April 2018 – Forms migration, Self –service apps,ORDS
May 2018 – Job submission and forms 
June 2018 – Single Sign on
July 2018 – Integrations
July 2018 – Go live
November 16, 2018
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Application Challenges
Moving from a non-container to a multi-tenant architecture using DBaaS.
Migrated away from Oracle Forms application to Java based application.
Implementing brand new self-service applications.
Wso2 based single sign on.
ERP application performance. Customized version of the ERP
New user interface.
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Application Challenges
ERP vendor installation of test and development instances.
ERP application job submission.
Existing self-service application migrated to  ORDS running on tomcat.
Wallets for the database and job submission
COBOL jobs
Migrating from custom Oracle forms to java based.
Integrations – validating 80 odd integrations. 
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Application To Do
Monitoring
Improve performance
Improve switchover to DR utilizing OCI GUI
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Partner Collaboration Ensured Success   
Shelli Echave, DBA
Tatiana Biryukova, Business Analyst
Wes Byrd, Project Director
Skip Siegenthaler, President and CEO
Brian Strong, Staff Consultant
Ken Herzog, Sales Director Cloud & Strategic Accounts
Martin Twombly, Fortinet Cloud Architect
Steve Little, Account Manager, Cloud Platform
Santosh Bhatt, Sr. Enterprise Cloud Architect
Simon Pierce- Cloud Platform Specialist
Marcin Zablocki, Sr. Solutions Architect
Siva Prasad Nandi, Principal Member, OCI
Venkat Uppuluri, Cloud Customer Success Manager
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Gonzaga Project Team
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