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Two decades of data successfully migrated as Birmingham City Council change ERP system.

Egress Group
Tue, Jan 10, 2023

Birmingham City Council is implementing Oracle Fusion after almost two decades of using and customising their legacy SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.

Egress Group were undeterred in taking on the significant and complex task of migrating the breadth of highly customised data held by Europe’s largest authority. Despite other project challenges, Egress successfully completed their data migration commitments in good time and to budget.

Back in 2019, Birmingham City Council (BCC) was using an on-premise SAP system which had become complex and was nearing the end of its support.

Two decades of data successfully migrated as Birmingham City Council change ERP system.

The system had been customised extensively over the years to suit the business needs, requiring a sizable in-house team to maintain and support it.

To move towards a more standardised Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform, BCC made the decision to migrate to Oracle Fusion.​ However, BCC faced a significant challenge with the migration process due to the large volume and customised nature of their data.

More than 300,000 employee records, payroll balances, accounts & invoices  successfully migrated

The council’s cabinet recognised this risk and sought out a partner with a proven track record to help mitigate the potential issues that could arise during the migration.

Egress were engaged to lead the Human Capital Management (HCM), Payroll, Finance, Procurement Migrations, Business Reconciliation and BI Reporting.

The success of the data migration programme led to the Egress team’s involvement in providing additional data management services and support.

James Couper Programme Manager, Birmingham City Council, commented:

“Egress was engaged to provide services bringing together a dedicated, experienced team and developed toolsets. The services provided by Egress enabled the early identification of data issues, which significantly shortened the time in moving data from our legacy system to Oracle and addressed our data quality challenges. Their tools and experience enabled an accelerated data migration process from end-to-end.”

In total, Egress migrated 40,000 employee records, 200,000 payroll balances, 40,000 customer accounts and 42,000 customer invoices.

You can read the full success story from our work with Birmingham City Council here.

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