Conduent and Voya Financial adopt the Oracle Database@Azure

Conduent and Voya Financial have joined the list of companies to adopt Oracle Database@Azure to aid their cloud migrations.Oracle Database@Azure is an agreement between Oracle and Microsoft to colocate its Exadata database-optimized servers and Real Application Clusters in Microsoft Azure data centers.

Conduent provides digital business solutions to commercial, government, and transport sectors, and has migrated its on-premises Oracle Exadata environment to the cloud with Oracle Database@Azure.

“Our customer base of Fortune 100 companies and more than 600 government and transportation agencies depend on us to help streamline their business processes and end-user interactions, which makes transaction speed a top priority,” said Mark Prout, chief technology and information officer of Conduent. “With Oracle Database@Azure, we’ve been able to leverage cross-cloud low latency to improve application performance and streamline the management of our IT infrastructure."

Voya Financial, a health, wealth, and investment company, has similarly migrated to the solution using the Oracle Exadata Database Service.

Santhosh Keshavan, executive vice president and chief information officer, Voya Financial, said: “By leveraging Oracle Exadata Database Service, we are now able to achieve the same benefits in the cloud, as well as migrate applications and workloads, so we can continue to react and respond to our customers’ needs and ultimately help them achieve their financial goals.”