Atlanta OAUG Meeting

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Atlanta OAUG Meeting

• Automation, Centralization and Simplification
• with Oracle Applications
• Eric Stouffer
• VP-Information Systems

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About National Data Corporation

• Premier provider of information services for the
  health care and electronic commerce markets
• Global Payments offers end-to-end solutions for
  electronic commerce and payment processing
• NDC Health offers the broadest scope of health
  information products and services in the world

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About our Technology and Resources

• NDC Health
• Intelligent network processes over 2 billion
  real-time health care transactions annually, peak
  rate of 650 transactions/second
• Connected to over 4,000 payer plans
• 39 of nations hospitals gt 400 beds, about 1,200
  hospitals
• 90 of nations pharmacies, about 50,000
  pharmacies
• gt 150,000 physicians
• 25 terabyte Oracle database for the
  pharmaceutical industry, over 100 pharmaceutical
  manufacturers
• Over 3.5 billion prescriptions on file
• Global Payments
• Processes billions of business and consumer
  transactions
• Over 1.2 million points of service
• 750,000 physical merchant locations
• Growing number of virtual sites
• Solutions used by more than 700 financial
  institutions
• Numerous federal and state government agencies

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The Road to Oracle Applications

• Antiquated and non-integrated financial systems
• Mergers and acquisitions created an arsenal of
  different systems and chart of account structures
• Lack of management information
• Inability to support international operations
• Desire for centralized shared services, i.e,
  procure-to-pay
• Undefined financial systems strategy
• All leading to Oracle Applications

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Current Environment

• Production use of Oracle GL, AP, PO, FA, Cash
  Management and Alert
• Extensive use of procurement card in AP
• HR/Payroll on Lawson w/Sybase database
• Standalone billing/AR systems
• Disparate sales force automation systems
• Manual sales compensation
• Next Step Execute the strategy!

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The Strategy

• Create integrated financial information system
  effectively supporting company goals and
  objectives
• Plan to implement, integrate or replace
• Leverage Oracle investment to be implemented
• Receivables, Sales Compensation, Projects,
  Self-Service Expenses, Self-Service Purchasing,
  Service
• Evaluate OracleSalesOnline.com
• Keep an eye on international requirements
• Upgrade Lawson HRIS to Oracle DB
• Prepare for Release 11i
• Be Flexible and Evolve!

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The ResultWere Getting There!

• ERP solution employing standard functionality on
  a manageable technology stack
• Centralized customer management
• Employee self-service - lower cost of internal
  transactions
• Accurate and timely information
• Business intelligence
• Scalable for Growth and Change!

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In Summary

• Automation
• Replace manual, inefficient processes with
  standard application functionality
• Seamless integration from sub-ledgers to General
  Ledger
• Centralization
• Ability to support corporate procure-to-pay
• Financial information centralized in single
  database
• Simplification
• Single, standardized chart of accounts structure
• Ability to effectively cross-train end-user and
  application support personnel