About Anthony Nolan
Anthony Nolan is a UK-based charitable organisation that works in the areas of blood cancer and blood disorders, and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. The charity has been saving lives for nearly 50 years and has over 800,000 potential donors on the Anthony Nolan Register. Their mission is to save and improve the lives of everyone who needs a stem cell transplant.
- Industry: Not-For-Profit
- Country: London, UK
- Employees: 255
- Website: www.anthonynolan.org
Challenge
Oracle is a critical component of Anthony Nolan’s technical stack and plays a key role in all of its operational systems. It holds their donor register and supports all aspects of the stem cell transplant process, including search and match, facilitation of the donation process, and all typing services performed in the laboratories.
The charity’s Oracle Database was on-premise, running on aging hardware with aging software. With limited capacity, which had a significant impact on performance, caused outages and prevented the development and maintenance of appropriate testing systems.
The charity had ambitious plans to improve its key services, which would ultimately benefit patients’ lives – plans that their existing Oracle setup could not support.
“We were facing a challenge that our Oracle Database was on an ageing on-premise server which was struggling to cope with demand and was impacting our day-to-day work. We knew we needed to modernise and wanted to move to the cloud to take advantage of its resiliency and scalability. We enlisted Namos to help guide us through the migration to the cloud. Their advice and technical expertise were vital to the project’s successful outcome. Since moving to the Oracle Cloud performance has dramatically improved (up to 200%), and TCO has decreased by 10%.”
Luke Neal, Head of Engineering Technology at Anthony Nolan
Solution at a glance
- Oracle Autonomous Database
