CARE - FSCM Upgrade and Migration from Oracle Hosting to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
CARE.org is a global leader within a worldwide movement dedicated to ending poverty. They work to save lives, defeat poverty, and achieve social justice.
The Challenge
The Solution
Results Delivered
Business
Focus on Core Mission
CARE wanted to improve the finance and administrative productivity of its global field staff, get out of the data center business and focus its limited resources on more strategic opportunities
Comply with non-profit audit requirements - GDPR, SOC2
Reduce Cost, Improve SLA
Get out of the data center business
Modernize Finance productivity tools for global field staff
Technology
Customized PeopleSoft, Global Footprint, Older Version
CARE was operating on an older version of PeopleSoft FSCM, V9.1, that was nearing its end of support term and was running on outdated underlying technology including Oracle database and PeopleTools. CARE was looking for an agile approach to PeopleSoft support and maintenance which they lacked in their current hosting service.
Upgrade FSCM V9.1 to V9.2 and Move to OCI in one project
Include all customization retrofits, integrations, and security updates
Migrating from Oracle OMCS/ACS managed services on OCI Classic to OCI Gen2 Cloud Infrastructure
Implement Selective Adoption Strategy for PeopleSoft FSCM V9.2
Cloud
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Astute developed a solution on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to meet's CARE's global needs and to perform a Move and Improve, which included a PeopleSoft V9. Application and PeopleTools 8.56 Upgrade as part of the migration to OCI.
Secure, compliant design on OCI
Global PeopleSoft Implementation on OCI accessible from 100 countries
PeopleSoft Cloud Manager for Lifecycle Management
Terraform for Infrastructure and Platform automation
Consulting
FSCM V9.2 Upgrade, Cloud Manager, Terraform for OCI Build
With field staff and volunteers in over 90 countries serving the needs of 63 million people during disasters, like hurricanes, earthquakes, and war, CARE needed uninterrupted PeopleSoft operations which is a critical part of their global financial backbone of transactions. CARE wanted to free up field staff and IT resources that were tied up managing the day-to-day availability and performance of our PeopleSoft applications running on a hosted private cloud solution.
6-month Move and Improve project to upgrade and migrate PeopleSoft to a modern Gen2 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Performance Tuning and configuration to achieve better performance improved SLA, and robust DR.
Modernize PeopleSoft to reduce operational costs with Fluid UI based Mobile Time Entry
OCI Compliance with requirements including GDPR, and SOC2
Business
Productive Global Team
CARE was able to focus on its core mission of defeating poverty, saving lives, and achieving social justice around the globe versus having in-house resources manage its PeopleSoft applications and infrastructure.
Speed of new feature deployments
Mobility applications for global field workforce
Improve Service Levels and performance
Technology
Reduced TCO, Improved Performance, Leading SLA
CARE's Global IT team supporting PeopleSoft for users in over 90 countries is now spending less time managing the application and reacting to changes, and more time implementing new features from the latest images of PeopleSoft.
90% increase in instance deployment using PeopleSoft Cloud Manager
100% automation of Peopletools Upgrade with a 1-Click upgrade in Cloud Manager
Fluid UI-based Time Entry application implemented
Rapid implementation of new BU's in India and Canada
A Global Team Serves The Vulnerable and Needy
Powered by PeopleSoft on Oracle Cloud
32%
Cost Reduction
85%
Performance
90%
Faster Deployment
50%
Higher Efficiency
Learn How You Can Gain the Same Benefits as CARE
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