Install Oracle 12c

Proposal Sponsor:

David Smyth

Overview

Install, configure and integrate Oracle 12c on our central Oracle database environment.

Other contributors:

David Berry, Iain Fiddes, Heather Lanarch, Stefan Kaempf, Richard Good, Peter Jackson, Adam Wadee, Maurice Franceschi

Why is it needed/What are the benefits?:

Oracles’ new version of their database product (12c) has been released and with scheduled desupport of v11 of the product in Jan 2018. As we have a large IT estate, it has normally taken up to 2 years to transition all systems to the new version.

By upgrading we will ensure:

We are in a fully supported position moving forward for our main database delivery platform

We will be able to ensure security issues are in a position to be addressed with the vendor

We are able to utilise new features that enable us to deliver a more reliable, scalable and peformant service.

With the timescales to transition to the new version mentioned above, we need to have the core facility in place to allow the many business areas to plan and execute their migration process before support ends for the current database version.

Planning Status:

Proposal

Portfolio:

ISG

Planned Start:

15/16

Multi-Year:

Project Owner:

ISG

Funding Source:

Core Grant

IS Admin Tab

Estimation Reference:

Reasonably Confident (Similar to previous work)

Estimation Type:

Infrastructure Development

Estimated IS Apps Days:

Medium