Project CornerStoneAtlanta OAUGNovember 18, 2005.ppt

Project CornerStoneAtlanta OAUGNovember 18, 2005 Kriss Poll, Director, ERP Development Nancy Patin, Director, Enterprise Resource Planning David Fearnley, Director, IT Operations Erik Mogelgaard, Director, Data Center Operations About Cox Multi-service broadband communications company with approximately 6.6 million total customers in 23 regional markets The nation’s third-largest cable television provider High-speed Internet Digital Telephone service Cox Business Services offers commercial voice and data services New Wireless product line Free-Cash-Flow growth Sustaining Strategies Cornerstone – Supporting our Strategies The first phase of a multi-year program focusing on improving our financial, supply chain, and capital management tools. Benefits Identified Wave 1 Goals Establish foundation for future business operations Integrated technology applications for finance, accounting, supply chain management and capital management New reporting capability that will leverage the strength of Oracle as well as existing reporting methods Oracle enabled process improvements inherent in the software - Off the Shelf Version of Oracle Future stability and flexibility of CCI’s technical infrastructure Project Scope Wave 1 Schedule March 2004 - Selected Capgemini May 2004 – Selected Oracle January 1, 2005 – Three locations and Corporate Live April 1, 2005 – Nine systems converted July 1, 2005 – Final seven systems All milestones on-time, on-budget eBusiness Suite Assets General Ledger Inventory iProc Incentive Compensation Payables Purchasing Receivables Warehouse Management Projects Third-party applications Vertex – sales and use tax More4Apps – capital projects workbench Noetix views – packaged Discoverer views Applimation – Configuration management Kintana – Migration control Challenges Linux Decision Made in August 2004 Timing, not the decision slowed development Hurricane Ivan Impacted one of our ‘pilot’ cable systems New Data Center Migration in November and D