Oracle Magazine - July/August 2011

PHH Corporation
phh.com
Industry: Fleet management and mortgage
services
Employees: 5,000
Revenue: US$2.4 billion
Oracle products and services: Oracle Exalogic
Elastic Cloud, Oracle Exadata Database
Machine, Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle
Real Application Clusters, Oracle SOA Suite,
Oracle Coherence, Oracle Business Process
Management, Oracle Application Integration
Architecture Foundation Packs, Oracle Tuxedo,
Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite,
Oracle WebCenter, Oracle Data Integration
Suite, Oracle Essbase, Oracle Hyperion
forecasting and planning applications,
Oracle Insight, Oracle Consulting Enterprise
Architecture Services, Oracle Advanced
Customer Services startup services
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To consolidate disparate technology stacks and lay a foundation for new applications, PHH is implementing a
shared services environment based on Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Oracle Exadata Database Machine,
says Chris Brewer, vice president of platform technologies at PHH.

anchored by a half-rack Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and a half-rack Oracle Exadata Database Machine, which provide extreme performance for both data warehousing and online transaction processing (OLTP) applications.

“Having our databases, infrastructure,
and applications in the same place will
greatly simplify our datacenter topology
and hardware footprint,” Brewer explains.
“This consolidated Oracle platform will also
allow for standards-based implementation
and integration between different applica-
tion tiers.”
to its clients through two subsidiaries: PHH Mortgage and PHH Arval.
PHH Mortgage provides private-label mortgage solutions to clients
nationwide including financial institutions, real estate companies,
credit unions, corporations, and government agencies. PHH Arval
provides fleet management services for corporate clients and govern-
ment agencies throughout the United States and Canada.

FOUNDATION FOR SCALABILI T Y AND PERFORMANCE

Consolidation on Oracle Exalogic is possible because of the optimizations in the product’s engineered system design. According to Adam Messinger, vice president of development in the Oracle Fusion Middleware group, while Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is optimized for enterprise Java, Oracle Fusion Middleware, and Oracle Fusion Applications, it also runs third-party and custom applications.

In addition, each Oracle Exalogic configuration is balanced for
compute-intensive workloads. “These Oracle Exalogic engineered
systems contain hot-swappable compute nodes; a clustered, high-
performance disk storage subsystem; and an InfiniBand switching
fabric to connect the internal components as well as to externally
connect additional Oracle Exalogic or Oracle Exadata Database
Machine racks via high-bandwidth interfaces,” Messinger notes. “It’s
all engineered as a cohesive system.”
Like Oracle Exadata, Oracle Exalogic is built from industry-