Cranking up the volume

We recently went live at a Financial Services firm in the Southeastern United States. We helped the customer transition from a procurement point solution for managing services to our hosted, Oracle-based Category Spend Manager platform, which we integrated with their current Procurement, Financials, and HR infrastructure. It was a "Big Bang" implementation -- something we normally don't recommend, but they really wanted to get off their legacy solution as soon as possible.

Speaking of big bang, here are a few statistics from the first week:

• $242M active Work Orders in system
• 2,929 Timesheets entered
• 44 Progress Logs entered
• 996 Invoices created
• 103 Requisitions

We expect some of these numbers to moderate slightly in the future, as there was some pent-up "demand" to use the system during the cutover. Starting with $242M in work orders on Day 1, however, speaks to sheer size of the deployment. It definitely speaks to Oracle ERP technology's ability to handle large volumes of transactions.

- Henry Hwong