Cleaning Master Data for Migration into Oracle Fusion Cloud
January 4, 2024
Get squeaky clean data fast without IT customizations.
Case Study – Financial Services Industry
See how More4apps tools helped a financial services company complete a large data cleansing project as they prepared to migrate to Oracle Fusion Cloud.
About the Client
Our client is a global company that provides a broad range of financial services, with thousands of employees and over 50 offices worldwide.
Case Study
Cleaning Master Data for Migration into Oracle Fusion Cloud
Get squeaky clean data fast and without IT customizations
Preparing Data for a Migration to Cloud
A vital part of preparing for a migration is evaluating and cleaning legacy data. The goal is to start fresh with pristine, accurate data in your new system.
With a migration to Oracle Cloud ERP on the horizon, our customer knew they needed to find and update incorrect, missing, and redundant values and any unprintable characters.
Early in the process, they used SQL to locate thousands of special characters in their data. The team also found lots of duplicate information and missing values. However, even after identifying the problems in their master data, our client needed a way to resolve these issues efficiently.
Evaluating Data Cleansing Tools
Without the right software, fixing data quality can be tedious and error-prone. Users can accidentally introduce new mistakes into the system as they work, with each error or inconsistency increasing business risk.
Our customer’s options for cleaning the legacy data were to use FBDI, make manual updates, or select a third-party solution. While FBDI is already included with Oracle, using this tool would require costly IT customization and extensive staff training that would delay project completion.
Manual data cleanup would be even slower and messier, requiring further time and resources. Using FBDI did not accommodate the company’s project timeline or budget.
Leveraging More4apps to Keep the Project on Time and Budget
In 2015, our client purchased the More4apps EBS Toolbox to provide end-users with a single spreadsheet solution for data loading. Since users were already familiar with More4apps and found the Excel interface easy to use, they decided to rely on the EBS Toolbox for their data cleansing project.
The More4apps EBS Toolbox provided an intuitive, efficient way to clean the existing data. The Customer, Supplier, and Projects Wizards let users easily remove duplicates by downloading and merging records. The Excel functionality allowed our customer to quickly replace poor and missing data and delete the unprintable characters.
The More4apps EBS Toolbox removed the need for additional time and support on the project, as IT resources did not have to perform customizations. The Excel interface allowed users to own the data and rapidly make updates inside a familiar tool without having to provide training to the team.
The advanced validation features in More4apps software, including pre-load validation and intuitive error messaging matched to exact data, helped users maintain accuracy across their work.
Case Study
Cleaning Master Data for Migration into Oracle Fusion Cloud
Get squeaky clean data fast and without IT customizations
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