R12 Financials Re-implementation at Unitary Council

Here’s my notes from another good presentation on re-implementing R12 from the recent public sector SIG (UKOUG). Presentation by Dave Maskell, PDG Consulting

Why re-implement rather than upgrade:

• New chart of accounts
• Platform migration (to Linux)

Interesting points:

• PDG performed this at a fixed price for Neath Port Talbot Council
• NPT were on 11.5.8
• PDG stands for “Pretty Dam Good”
• PDG took NPT staff onto their own team. This worked well because of their ability to share workload, provide NPT specialist knowledge and give an “insider” to co-ordinate NPT efforts. This didn’t work so well because it made it harder for PDG to manage the contract resource for this fixed price contract.

Lessons Learned

• PDG stick to their word and kept to the fixed price agreement even though it cost them more than they anticipated.
• Dot matrix printers don’t work with BI Publisher and PDF output. Don’t waste time trying to get it working, just get decent hardware.
• GRC/data access (Governance Risk Compliance manager) doesn’t secure bank accounts in R12 (but they do in 11i).
• Re-implementation DBA (database administrator) work is very different from BAU (business as usual) DBA work.
• One small error in requirements confirmation can have significant consequences for go-live (a NPT legacy configuration of forcing upper case in KFF (one tick box) wasn’t included in the requirements and is now irritating for users, who are used to the previous way of searching for and entering KFF’s).

NPT would be delighted to talk to other public sector organisations who would like to learn from their experiences (ask me for contact details).

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