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The Xerox Office Group has successfully completed a simultaneous
implementation of Oracle 11i and Virtual Trader across
54 companies in 26 countries. At the outset of the project, some major areas of concern
were the replacement of large customizations
around accounting and integration with their
3rd Party service product OpenUPTIME.
Their 10.7 environment had been heavily customized to facilitate
operating multiple companies within the same shared operating unit.
Despite the many business advantages this afforded, they had considered
retuning to a standard ‘silo’ model to reduce upgrade cost,
timescales and project risk.
They chose Virtual Trader as their partner in this project
to address all these functionality gaps using a standard
and supported product. They are now running 54 companies within two shared work
spaces, including fully automated multi-tier Commissionaire
and Buy/Sell sales models. Virtual Trader now provides
the complete integration of OpenUPTIME into both Receivables
and General Ledger.
As with all projects, there were unexpected changes. For
Xerox this was the need to undertake a significant change
to the organizational structure across Europe three months
before go-live. However the flexibility of the rule based
approach used by Virtual Trader absorbed much of the impact
and minimized the disruption to the project as a whole. |
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