Countless Hours Saved Maintaining Oracle Projects
February 1, 2024
Multi-Day and Multi-Week Timelines Reduced to Minutes and Hours
Case Study – Energy
See how a Canadian energy company improved data accuracy and accelerated business processes with the More4apps ERP Cloud Toolbox.
About the Client
Our client is a large publicly traded Canadian engineering, logistics, and energy holding company with subsidiaries including electric utilities, construction companies, and natural gas production and distribution companies.
Struggling with Month-End on Oracle Fusion Cloud
Our customer used our EBS Toolbox suite for over 10 years to manage their Oracle projects data accurately and efficiently. These tools enabled rapid data entry and updates, allowing the company to complete critical month-end processes on time.
After switching to Oracle Cloud, the energy company attempted to use FBDI and ADFdi to manage project information. However, these data loaders were insufficient for the job. Users had to update thousands of project demographic items on fields unavailable in the Oracle-provided tools, such as task DFFs.
The team needed help with using FBDI for creation purposes and with using the forms to update data. Ultimately, this impacted the company’s month-end because the Finance and IT teams didn’t have adequate means to manage projects on Oracle Cloud.
Replacing FBDI and ADFdi with More4apps Suite of Tools
Continuing with FBDI and ADFdi was out of the question. The energy company needed software that would support mass downloads, updates to existing projects, and entry of new project data from across the enterprise.
To address their month-end delays and corresponding frustrations, they decided on a known and trusted third-party solution, More4apps’s Excel-based software for Oracle Cloud.
Massive Time Savings in Maintaining Oracle Projects
Using the More4apps ERP Cloud Toolbox Projects Module gives the company team members the power to efficiently download, modify, and validate mass amounts of data before interfacing and posting to Oracle.
Users can rapidly edit information with familiar, user-friendly Excel functionality.
The advanced validation features, including pre-load validation and intuitive error messaging, matched to exact data, help users maintain accuracy while moving fast to meet business timelines. In addition, the ability to download information from Oracle gives users a better view of current data configurations and allows them to identify and correct anomalies.
The More4apps Projects Module provides a complete management system for project teams. Beyond enabling the energy company to meet month-end deadlines, it has streamlined the entire project data process. Team members can now complete mass updates in minutes or hours.
Without the Projects Module, many of these tasks would have taken weeks and required numerous FBDI and ADFdi templates. The work would have been slow with a high risk for error, with some information simply inaccessible through Oracle FBDI or ADFdi.
Our customer can modify projects data and processes that they would never have touched without More4apps suite of tools. These improvements have freed up hundreds of hours of manual work in maintaining Oracle projects. For example, the company decided to add six new project class codes for reporting. More4apps software helped them to populate the new codes on 25,000 existing projects in just one day.
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