Our client is a large engineering-led construction and mining company with around 50,000 employees working across leading infrastructure and resource projects around the world.

It is an Australian listed entity, though it operates internationally in over 20 countries, undergoing a variety of activities in construction, contract mining, operation and maintenance, development, and delivery.

The client’s existing ERP solution consisted of Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne (JDE) and Business Intelligence (BI) solutions (OBIEE and Hyperion Planning) used to manage its core Financial business functions. The ERP solution provided services for multiple business entities spread over the various locations around the world, each requiring secure business transactions between on-premise applications, external third-party organisations and other Cloud SaaS providers.

As part of its strategy to consolidate and modernise its operating environment, the client initiated a business rationalisation program with the core IT objectives of:

• Cloud deployment model to provide global accessibility and scalability;
• Locally deployed production environments to cater for data sovereignty;
• End user experience and system efficiencies equal or superior to legacy systems;
• Reduced capital and operating costs over five years.

As a long-term partner to the client, ASG were engaged to help the organisation find a solution, or set of solutions, that would help them to restructure their business operating model aimed at centralisation and strong governance. After thorough analysis, ASG put forward a proposal to transition the client’s ERP systems to an outsourced delivery model. It was proposed that the new model would not only provide the client with immediately
reduced overheads, but would also simplify its global IT landscape, providing a greater return on investment over time, whilst contributing to broader transformational objectives.

As an experienced Managed Service Provider and Oracle Platinum Partner, with extensive experience in delivering successful integration strategies and services – ASG was selected to define and develop a roadmap to transition the client to a cloud model and deliver the following:

• A JDE solution across their global operations – Australia, the Americas, Africa and Asia; running on an Oracle Cloud Platform;
• Offer a complete Oracle ecosystem back to the client, leveraging the automation available in Oracle’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Cloud
  offerings;
• A “as a service” package offering including all core applications on a subscription role-based per user model removing legacy platforms and transitioning from a Hybrid IaaS/PaaS/Apps layer to a next-generation end-toend pay per use service;
• Sophisticated visual outputs sourced from a robust yet flexible and scalable data management and storage platform.