Walsall Council were utilising a highly customised HR and payroll solution that was feature-rich but intricately tied to complex business processes.
The council recognised the need to improve customer services, enhance employee morale by equipping them with the right tools, and streamline processes for greater efficiency and effectiveness. To accomplish these objectives, Walsall Council opted for a fully integrated Oracle Cloud-based solution under their One Source programme. This involved consolidating multiple legacy solutions into a single Oracle Fusion platform.
Initially, the council felt that they possessed the in-house expertise to handle the critical data migration task themselves and potentially save costs in the process. However, they soon realised that an experienced data partner was required and enlisted the support of Egress.
After closely collaborating with the team at Walsall and conducting a thorough data quality assessment, Egress swiftly grasped the complexity of the situation. Egress proceeded to carry out a successful data analysis and cleansing phase, following which they were entrusted with the end-to-end migration process, which encompassed full extraction, transformation, and loading of data.
Leveraging the Egress Advance toolkit, they simplified the complexity, and automated the progression, of the migration cycles, showcasing swift and consistent enhancements in data quality.
Egress were able to adapt to the significant challenges introduced by Covid by maintaining flexibility. Their professionalism and the level of automation ensured that the migration continued successfully.
Despite the impact of Covid at the point the project was due to go live, Egress were able to provide consolidated data on time and allowed One Source to go live as planned.
