Oracle Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Assessment
CLIENT:
Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)
CHALLENGE
In today’s economic landscape, the cloud is a highly attractive proposition offering the promise of immediate return on investment and long-term strategic benefits. To manage OPIC’s unique federal financial requirements including loans and insurance guarantees, the agency was considering cost-effective financial solutions such as Software as a Service (SaaS) platforms for EBS. This meant evaluating the agency’s technology landscape to determine technical feasibility of migrating OPIC’s current Oracle EBS environment to Oracle SaaS, estimating implementation costs, calculating return on investment (ROI), and recommending a high-level roadmap into a Final Report delivered in 8 weeks.
SOLUTION
Led by our firm’s Oracle expert, the team quickly evaluated OPIC’s system architecture to determine the technical feasibility of adopting Oracle’s SaaS EBS offering and the associated level of investment to achieve sustainable cost savings. This effort included determining the impact on the applications and systems employed at OPIC and recommending strategies to transfer and communicate data within a blended on-premise and off-premise ecosystem. Our team meet with Oracle representatives regularly to understand the SaaS/PaaS solutions and obtained quotes to compare costs between the various offerings.
RESULTS
Delivered on time, our team compiled all observations, findings and recommendations into a comprehensive Final Assessment Report with supporting documentation that included the following key components:
- Detailed summary of technical feasibility for on-premise vs. off-premise
- Estimated Oracle Cloud ERP implementation costs compared to the current Oracle EBS (FY21 – FY3)
- High-level Oracle ERP Cloud implementation roadmap
The detailed report provided OPIC’s senior leaders with an objective third-party assessment to determine when, where and how the agency will make the leap to Oracle Cloud ERP.
