IT Landscape in scope:
1 x Oracle applications financials & manufacturing
120 Countries
+28,000 Total workforce
+2,500 Active users
24x7x365 Global operations in multiple time-zones
99.99% Planned up-time
Very high level of customization
Canadian multi-national acquires the manufacturing operations in Europe for a Fortune 500 telecommunication company. As a result of the transition, the old system has to be sun-set and decommisioned. A new system has to be created that will allow for all manufacturing, financials & supplychain to work as normal but under the new companies banner and without the old financial and stock transactions.
Greanalyze studied the existing environment and, requirements of the two companies.
A few feasible options were assessed along with the effort, change impact and cost benefit analysis of all the options.
Licensing arrangements reviewed.
Old system has to be sun-set and decommissioned.
New system must allow business as usual but without the transactions of the previous company.
Companies do not want to incurr additional licensing costs on either of the systems.
Software vendor Oracle Corporation has refused to support the transition.
Change impact should be minimum.
Existing environment was cloned to create a copy.
Database updates done to change the Legal name, Operating unit name and Tax related details.
Business given a walk through of all database tables that contained data to check information that needed to be removed from the new system.
All tables with transaction information identified and purged systematically and without disturbing the relational data integrity.
All other data that needed to be removed was purged systematically and without distrurbing the relational data integrity.
Old system secured with limited functionality for sun-setting.