Cognizant’s Co-Existence Solution Leverages Cloud Technology for Adoption of Oracle Fusion Applications by a U.S.-based Fast-food Chain

Cognizant Oracle's Co-existence Solution Enables EBS 11i Customer to Adopt Fusion The customer is a U.S.-based fast-food chain with 1,850+ restaurants and 1600+ employees Background The transition was Replacement of existing planned in a phased manner: Fusion General Ledger (GL) go-live → Fusion Sub ledger go-live Oracle EBS 11i with Oracle Fusion Customer Applications planned to archive EBS 11i by Implemented year-end 2016, whereas support across the U.S. for EBS11I ended in 2010 Business Pains Higher TCO as a result of R12 upgrade, Drawback faced by EBS 1li Software release needs to be kept reasonably up-to-date customers to co-exist and leverage Financials Accounting Hub (FAH), as Oracle only implementation and change management supports co-existence from EBS R12.2 onwards costs Associated functionality Change Management - limitations in standard Chart of Accounts FAH integration with restructuring Fusion GL Solution Features Enhances Improves ease of Leverages SoA/ODI tech stack, flexibility to extend maintenance by without incurring FAH integration with removing need to upgrade to additional any version of licensing Oracle EBS R12 costs Overcomes Oracle Improves time to reconcile through an Reduces the need for a complete Fusion integration with peripheral systems such as third-party financial budgeting standard limitations by providing automated, end-to-end detailed journal process balances 快 transfers system, profit & loss & financial reporting systems Benefits Business Gains Process Gains ~20% reduction in solution implementation Eliminated the need to upgrade to R12 to cost as the solution handles data conversion, achieve co-existence capability with FAH removing the need for a separate program Improved time to reconcile through early detection of errors & effective reconciliatory Saved license cost for GoldenGate, a database resource consuming application mechanisms Reduced implementation cost for Fusion Financials co-existence solution Cloud ready: Easily ported to any cloud base as it's developed on W3C standards Flexible integration options with any cloud/ Reduced solution building, testing & deployment time by 30% on-premise third-party budget system, P&L system & reporting system Lesser time spent on source data cleansing, Improved time to close through automation of data conversion, reconciliation & data processes consolidation Cognizant Platinum ORACLE' Partner Visit us online at www.cognizant.com or follow us on Twitter: Cognizant © Copyright 2015, Cognizant.