Urban Outfitters achieves major cost savings by moving Sterling OMS to AlloyDB for PostgreSQL

Urban Outfitters migrated its IBM Sterling Order Management System from Oracle to AlloyDB for PostgreSQL to reduce costs and improve scalability.

• •The 11TB Oracle database was a bottleneck with high licensing costs and operational complexity
• •AlloyDB deployment includes two read replicas for high availability and low-latency data access
• •Extensive performance tuning ensured AlloyDB exceeded Oracle's performance benchmarks
• •Rigorous iterative switchover testing allowed teams to identify and resolve issues before production
• •PostgreSQL compatibility provides cost savings and freedom from vendor lock-in

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