Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) has secured a significant cloud migration deal with Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. (OTC: HTCMF), marking a major win for its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure ("OCI") platform. The Japanese heavy equipment manufacturer has chosen OCI to migrate its large-scale and mission-critical business systems across various departments, including accounting, development, production and sales. This move is part of Hitachi Construction Machinery's broader digital transformation strategy, which is aimed at unifying data from critical systems and preparing for future AI implementation. The migration leverages Oracle Cloud VMware Solution and Oracle Exadata Database Service on OCI, enabling a swift and reliable transition with minimal changes to existing applications and databases. This approach has allowed Hitachi Construction Machinery to achieve significant performance improvements, with online transaction processing performance increasing 50% and batch processing performance enhancing 60% for several core business systems. Additionally, the company has reduced its infrastructure operating costs by 20%, demonstrating the economic benefits of the cloud migration. Hitachi Construction Machinery highlighted OCI's unique ability to securely migrate mission-critical databases running on Oracle Exadata and VMware virtualization environments without ...