Bringing the technology of tomorrow—smart cities, sustainable energy, cybersecurity, and more—to regions around the world, this multidisciplinary company took a similar innovative approach to their North American back office. Managing all HR operations on a maturing, highly customized platform offered little opportunity for future technical support and scalability without significant cost to the company. Company leaders saw that moving to the cloud could unlock opportunities to advance their processes, staffing models, roles and responsibilities, and data and analytics. Beyond that, adopting an out-of-the-box solution would allow them to invest in all elements of their back office rather than on the software alone.

Thinking ahead, KPMG worked with this client to evaluate back-office products. Moving forward with Oracle Cloud HCM, the company migrated tens of thousands of active employees in North America to the new system. Accuracy was of the essence in this deployment, with a large union population, legacy payrolls, and many different time captures and general ledgers in need of integration. Together, we built a customized engine to analyze and streamline data for compatibly with Oracle Cloud. 

By moving to Oracle Cloud HCM, the company achieved what was once the largest Oracle Fusion Payroll in North America. Incorporating a heavily unionized workforce and many legacy payrolls into a standardized system and streamlining data and operations, they were able to: