Upgrading Oracle WebCenter Sites for General Electric (GE) Capital

Client background

GE Capital is the financial services unit of the American multinational conglomerate General Electric. It provides commercial lending and leasing, as well as a range of financial services for commercial aviation, energy, and support for GE’s industrial business units.

Business challenges

The client:

Had two separate WebCenter Sites application stacks of different versions, installed for differing business initiatives, that needed to be upgraded to the same current version.
Need to analyze the systems to identify the necessary and precise upgrade steps as well as any potential risks that needed to be addressed.
Validate historical findings and assumptions.

The solution

Conducted Upgrade/Discovery sessions to understand existing implementation.
Upgraded Dev, QA, DR, and Production environments from JBoss 4.2.2 to Tomcat 6.0.32.
Upgraded two applications to work with Tomcat 6.0.32.
Conducted Developer Tools Integration Workshop.

Results

Visualization of project outcomes:

Global locations

USA • UK • Canada • UAE • India • Philippines • Jamaica