Oracle

If your organisation wants to achieve greater control and manageable ongoing costs, it is vital to have a single source of financial information, with automated processes and timely visibility of both headlines and underlying assets.

Oracle Financials software

• Meets global financial reporting and tax requirements
• Makes it easy to operate shared services across businesses and regions
• Delivers pre-integrated financial and industry-specific processes

By implementing Oracle software and using our considerable consulting experience and our accelerated solutions, we can help you deliver the business improvements you need at a price appropriate for your organisation.

Examples of how we have helped our customers include:

• Replacing the complete back-office and successfully migrating from old to new in a seamless way
• Defining, refining and implementing charts of accounts to meet consolidation. reporting and analysis needs
• Back-office transformations (e.g.: process improvement)
• Multi-site roll-outs, including European roll-outs
• Dealing with the complexities of the differing statutory and legal requirements of multi-country implementations
• Time recording, project management, costing, billing for a project-based organisation
• Implementing a pan-European shared services environment

Human Resources departments are being driven to reduce costs, while improving the effectiveness of HR programs, such as competency management and time tracking. They may also need to accommodate growth via acquisition and respond to significant additional compliance burdens, such as the Working Time Directive.

Oracle Human Resources software, whether PeopleSoft or E-Business Suite, helps organisations to

• gain enterprise-wide control of information, including payroll
• reduce cetral costs by devolving responsibility to managers and staff
• develop talent and reduce staff turnover
• reduce training costs and ensure compliance
• streamline the recruitment process
• build performance-based compensation and reward schemes
• understand and address workforce trends through Business Intelligence

2e2 has developed Human Resources solutions using Oracle software for many clients and its consultants understand both the software and the business processes to which the software relates. By using the latest templates and accelerated approaches, we can help you drive out the key benefits fast and at an affordable cost.

Manufacturing companies in all industries today are facing an ever-intensifying set of competitive pressures in response to changing customer requirements and market conditions. These include product customization, reduced prices and shorter lead times.

Oracle Manufacturing software provides companies the ability to plan, execute, measure and continuously improve their operations. This includes both internal operations and interactions with supply chain partners, such as suppliers and service providers.

By introducing a lean manufacturing approach, companies can

• drive productivity
• make efficiency gains
• improve quality
• meet governance and compliance requirements
• introduce cell/flow concepts

2e2 has implemented Oracle Manufacturing solutions for a number of its clients, and is well-placed to offer pragmatic and relevant advice on how best to configure the software with the way your business works.

Many organisations find that a small number of out of control projects has a disproportionate impact on the overall profitability of their activities.

Oracle Projects software applications support the full lifecycle of project and portfolio management with a single, accurate view of all project-related activities, which can be used to allow project teams to collaborate effectively and bridge the gap between the Operations and Finance departments.

Industry leading functionality allows users to select the best portfolio of initiatives, execute projects in adherence with methodologies, assign the right global resources, proactively streamline project delivery, and track profitability via accurate budgeting, forecasting, and billing.

2e2 has worked and continues to work with many project-focussed customers to enhance their project management capabilities through the use of clear and innovative software, ensuring they can both capture, report on and act on key program information in a timely and appropriate way.

Organisations today struggle to find, collate and understand information within their departments and divisions. Information gaps and silos prevent executives from understanding their current business health and responding fast enough to the need for business change. Governance and compliance concerns only add to the burden of the FD.

The Oracle Business Intelligence platform provides pervasive, relevant visibility and insight to everyone, everywhere, using appropriate and user-driven tools. It is built on a unified enterprise information model, and delivers knowledge through rich, interactive dashboards.

2e2 understands our clients business models, works with you to gather the information in the unified information model, and then receommends and helps to implement the appropriate Oracle tools to deliver real business value back to the business at all levels of management.

An Oracle upgrade or hardware migration is often seen as a relatively small technical exercise, but a large business risk. Why do upgrades go wrong? Usually it is down to lack of planning and poor expectation management. To maintain the best level of Support from Oracle and to continually improve your Oracle footprint, you need to build a strategy to stay up-to-date.

With such a significant business risk, you need to choose a partner who can work with you over the whole period of change, guiding you and helping your team manage all the risks, rather than one who will perform a technical upgrade and disappear or charge significant sums for issue management.

2e2

• has completed upgrades successfully many times before, including R12
• has a prudent and proven methodology (E-Volve)
• maintains a strong relationship with Oracle to escalate key issues
• will help you manage any customisations
• will use its Config Snapshot tool to lower the risk even further and present a baseline for the future

Organisations have to address continually evolving markets, by building adaptive business processes, and supporting these with relevant technology.

These organisations are also concerned about preserving their investment in Oracle solutions and other technology systems.

Oracle Fusion Middleware is the industry's most comprehensive family of middleware and SOA tools and solutions, enabling your organization to increase its capacity for growth and change; improve insight into business operations; mitigate risk and drive compliance. These improved processes allow you to connect with customers, partners, and workers. Oracle is driving business improvement with its current Fusion tools and its next generation Fusion Applications.

As a partner of 15 years standing, 2e2 is best-placed to start customers on the journey and to channel energy into the best use, now and in the future, of Oracle software. We work as business partners, advising our customers about reliability, direction and compatibility across the broad range of Oracle software tools and applications, soon to include BEA Systems.

Oracle Database 11g extends Oracle's unique ability to deliver the benefits of grid computing with more self-management and automation, making it easier for customers to:

• Innovate faster and with confidence
• Manage more data for less
• Securely protect data and enable compliance

Our DBAs are all specialists in areas of Oracle such as E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft and Fusion Middleware and provide proactive advice and guidance to customers in making the best and most pragmatic use of the Oracle technical platform.

As an example our DBAs have worked in Partnership with a major UK telecommunications company, to rationalise and consolidate over 600 Oracle database environments and utilise the latest Oracle technology.