Oracle Magazine - January/February 2012

TECHNOLOGIST OF THE YEAR

WINNER SPECS

Name: Gürcan Orhan
Job title: Software architect and
senior developer
Company: Turkcell Technology
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Award: Oracle Excellence Award for
Technologist of the Year: Enterprise
Architect, 2011

Gürcan Orhan ENTERPRISE ARCHITEC T

Architect troubleshoots network alarms with customized Oracle Data Integrator solution.

For Gürcan Orhan, software architect and senior developer at Turkcell Technology—a firm that develops applications and building infrastructure for Turkcell, the leading communications and technology company in Turkey and the third-largest mobile phone operator in Europe—success comes down to quickly diagnosing critical problems across a diverse and heterogeneous network infrastructure.

“We wanted to be able to quickly detect
network alarm locations, which is difficult
because alarms can be originated from
more than 200,000 network nodes and
produced from 50 different source systems,
and their location is hidden in two unstruc-
tured columns,” says Orhan, winner of the
Oracle Excellence Award for Technologist of
the Year: Enterprise Architect. “To overcome
these challenges, we needed a robust, solid
software solution that leverages an ELT
[extract, load, and transform] approach.” In
2008, Turkcell Technology created a team to
compare different data integration products
and ultimately selected Oracle Data Integrator.

Some of the data flowing into NODI is unstructured data from network monitors and alarms, so Orhan’s team had to build algorithms to analyze it and successfully identify the exact location of more than 100,000 alarms each day. “We’re currently correctly identifying the five unstructured dimensions, such as reason, source system, vendor, and more, for the alarms 100 percent of the time, and the location of the alarms more than 99.99 percent of the time,” says Orhan.

In the end, Turkcell’s bet on Oracle infrastructure is paying off, especially when it comes to creating flexible solutions that will continue to address any future need.

“Oracle Data Integrator is a tool that can talk, or learn how to talk, with any database or operating system in its own language,” says Orhan. “That’s the power of Oracle Data Integrator.”