Smartscore, a golf platform company, said on Monday it switched its enterprise systems to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), raising the performance of service operations systems, including customer-facing ERP, by 30 percent and cutting operating costs by 60 percent.

Founded in 2015, Smartscore has provided solutions to about 420 golf courses in South Korea. Users can automatically record and manage golf data through tablets attached to golf carts and the Smartscore mobile application.

Smartscore Golf Course ERP, a new service, is a solution that integrates overall golf course operations such as reservations, orders and settlements. Oracle said Smartscore adopted OCI because it needed infrastructure to run the service in a cloud-based environment where database performance is critical.

Smartscore built its infrastructure using Oracle OCI Compute and OCI Storage and improved data management efficiency through MySQL HeatWave.

Wi Jang-young (위장영), vice president of Korea Oracle's Tech Cloud business unit, said, "As cost burdens rise across the sports industry and customer demands and expectations for the digital environment change rapidly, a trend is emerging in which flexible responses are required from related companies. OCI provides performance, security and cost efficiency to meet these needs." He added, "Smartscore moved its overall platform, which is responsible for golf course operations, to OCI, including next-generation golf course ERP. It raised performance and stability standards across the sports industry by a step and secured agility to respond quickly to market changes."