University of Melbourne expands Rimini Street relationship to include Oracle support

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University of Melbourne expands Rimini Street relationship to include Oracle support

The University of Melbourne has selected Rimini Street to handle the support of its Oracle Database, EBS and Hyperion systems.

The university has utilised the Rimini Support for Oracle solution for its mission critical systems, a solution that Rimini Street says strengthens security posture, resolves interoperability issues and helps to keep Oracle systems running for an additional 15 years, as well as delivering an immediate 50% saving on annual Oracle maintenance fees and up to 90% savings on total cost of ownership. 

The university is also using additional elements of the Rimini One portfolio to address other IT needs, including Rimini Connect for Email, which uses technologies to extend the life of enterprise software, aiming to ensure the university’s enterprise software remains compatible with authentication and protocol updates as mail servers evolve, and Rimini Protect, by which the university intends to safeguards its applications and middleware against known and unknown threats and vulnerabilities. 

The University of Melbourne's director of enterprise technology Daniel Buttigieg said the university was previously stuck in a "perpetual cycle" of upgrades, each one taking months of preparation, testing and deployment. 

"The risks were equally high; if an upgrade or security patching goes wrong, we could lose access to things like our ERP or identity management system, which can be catastrophic for an organisation of our size and the number of staff and students that we have," he said.

“We weren't seeing an investment in the platform that was appropriate to the size of the support cost that we were paying. So, by moving over to Rimini Street and not getting access to those newer releases really wasn't impacting us because we weren't seeing the value of that investment through our support costs.”

Rimini Street’s vice president of industry team and retail solutions, Dion Rooney, said rhe education industry is highly competitive, and staying on the forefront of innovation requires investment of people, time and money.

“We’ve helped many higher learning institutes across Australia, New Zealand and abroad, accelerate their timeline to executing their vision simply by providing better support and the ability to optimise and redirect their resources towards modernisation and strategic initiatives," he said.

The university's Mobile Learning Unit chose Rimini Street to provide support and enhancement services for its Salesforce-based eLearning platform earlier in the year.

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