Tales from the Journey

Oracle Cloud ERP : Customer Stories

Nicole Mackew
Sales Director

Gary Patterson
Practice Director
“Technology is not valuable in itself, it
must make your enterprise better.”
- Safra Catz
Why Cloud?
The tipping point is now
…but there is more than one path
Big Bang
Quick-hit
Hybrid
Common Threads
Different Methodology & Mindset

Old
• Long projects 12-36m
• Heavily customised
• Legacy business practices
• Version lock
• IT-driven
• ”Waterfall” methodology
New
• Short projects 3-12m
• No customisations
• Modern best practice
• Continual improvement
• Business user driven
• Agile methodology
Things you won’t love

No Customisations!
Things you won’t love

Shift happens
Things you won’t love

Less feature-rich
Things you will love

Mobile Expenses
Things you will love

No Customisations!
Things you will love

Continuous innovations
Things you will love

Employee Enablement
Things you will love

Planning & Budgeting

integration
Things you will love

Speed & Cost

Things you will love

SmartView / Dashboards
Things you will love

Fewer Outages
Why it doesn’t matter If you’re not at the table,
you’re on the menu.
- Michael Enzi / Safra Catz
 Three questions:
Where are you now?
Current State & Key
Business Drivers
Where are you going?
Target Application
Footprint How (and when) will
you get there?
Roadmap

Driven over time by

FSG Better Supports OLR
Growth

• Ability for OLR employees to

Higher Maturity of FSG Business Processes

request supplies
Extend Automation of FSG
Responsibilities • Better visibility of spending and
allows for negotiation of better
prices with vendors
Accounting Foundation • Accounting Automation • Sales and Marketing variable
Established – Transformation eliminates need for majority of compensation easier to track and
Begins manual processes and Access pay, regardless of sales
databases headcount
• Confirm application footprint to • Consolidated Receivables gives
2008 2009
support FSG and Account Sep Oct one view
Nov of customer
Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep
Services
Account Services • Consolidated Receivables
• Detailed Design of Accounting
Roadmap
facilitates supporting shared
Automation ensures elimination responsibilities by FSG and
Software
of unnecessary manualSelection Account Services
processes and Access databases
Accounting Automation

Design

Implement

2008 H1Process
2009 H2 2009
Transformation

Budgeting & Cash Accounting

Process Transformation

Procurement

Process Transformation

Sales & Marketing Accounting

Process Transformation
 Q&A
Nicole Mackew
Sales Director
07901 510 770
nicole.mackew@fronteraconsulting.net

Gary Patterson
Practice Director
gary.patterson@fronteraconsulting.net
+1 803 445 7722

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