Business Need

Operating in a highly competitive and rapidly changing market, a leading daily newspaper needed a scalable, lower cost alternative for their current on-premise Oracle R12 environment

The customer chose to implement Oracle ERP Cloud to modernize their transactional and reporting capabilities, deliver greater agility and reduce spend on internal IT maintenance

Technology Platform

Oracle ERP Cloud

Financials

General Ledger

Fixed Assets

Accounts Payable

Financials Reporting

Finance Reporting Studio

BI Publisher

Cognizant – KBACE Solution

KBACE, a Cognizant company led the implementation of Oracle ERP Cloud applications payables and reporting-to-close business processes which included:

Legal entity, ledger and business unit definitions for the United States

Conversion of suppliers and employees, invoices, and three years of General Ledger balances

Configuration of corporate asset book

Custom Payables Automated Clearinghouse, Positive Pay and Check files to a leading bank in America

Financial Reporting integration with Adaptive Insights, a Cloud-based Planning, Reporting and Analytics application

KBACE Cloud Central Integration with Concur incorporating inbound vendor creation, expense reports and invoices from Concur to Oracle, and outbound vendor updates and payment details back to Concur

Oracle ERP Cloud Implementation for a Leading Daily Newspaper

case study | october 2016

• Case Study

BACEA Cognizant Company

Custom refund process to support 500+ transactions on a monthly basis. The process supports both the supplier creation and associated invoices from a legacy refund system

Instructor-led training for Cloud system administration, financial application navigation and Oracle reporting tools

Benefits

The customer is now operating on a single and completely integrated ERP Cloud system with best of breed functionality

This transformation has allowed the customer to upgrade their entire financial ERP system to a Cloud-based solution within a six month timeframe, and within budget

They now operate on a flexible and modern Cloud-based platform, which delivers the functionality and analytics their workforce needed to innovate and grow

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BACEA Cognizant Company

Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.), Cognizant combines a passion for client satisfaction, technology innovation, deep industry and business process expertise, and a global, collaborative workforce that embodies the future of work. With over 100 development and delivery centers worldwide and approximately 244,300 employees as of June 30, 2016, Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 2000, and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world.

The merger of Cognizant and KBACE places the joint company as the top Oracle Cloud Applications vendor in the market. By merging our capabilities customers are now able to leverage Cognizant’s capabilities in Oracle-led consulting, system integration, and outsourcing services and KBACE’s deep product knowledge and Cloud consulting capability.

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