Global rollout and Finance application upgrade
Client: Dassault Systèmes — Software publishing sector.
A worldwide upgrade of a single Finance instance deployed across three regions (EMEA, North America, Asia), including the integration of newly acquired entities.
Context
- Version upgrade of a single instance for 3 regions (EMEA, North America, Asia) and rollout tied to the acquisition of new entities.
- 150,000 clients of all sizes worldwide.
- Finance: GL, AP, PO, AR, PC, BI, EX, CA modules.
Objectives
- Realign and optimise business processes to support growth.
- Improve user productivity through system performance and ergonomics.
- Maximise application usage by reducing customisations.
- Ensure continuous maintainability.
Levers
- Systnaps software used across 60 entities worldwide for several years.
- Creation and duplication of a configuration repository across the application scope.
- Securing configuration deliveries.
- A significant reduction in data-entry time, to prioritise testing phases.
- A tool that identified the processes used by each entity.
- A globally distributed team committed to the project's success and its long-term upkeep.
Approach
- Selection of features for the upgrade with business and IT teams.
- Estimation of development-carryover effort, with optimised carryover.
- Building the technical and functional repositories.
- Updating objects not delivered by Application Designer.
- Technical, functional and data-model audits of acceptance environments at each Move to Prod.
- Support for updating Business Objects universes (reporting).
Results
Our savings exceeded our expectations.
— Nicolas Malsch, CIO DSX, Dassault Systèmes
- Harmonisation, optimisation and productivity goals achieved.
- Automation aligned with strategic ambitions.
- Restructured management of technical changes.
- Reclaimed history of changes.
- Audit precision for a project plan that was respected.