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Collier & Associates brand mark featuring the core services: Business Transformation; Enterprise Systems; AI-Enabled Execution.

National Radio Astronomy Observatory — Government-Funded Scientific Organization, 250+ Engineers · Project 3 of 3 (1994)

Client Challenge

  • Three autonomous JDE installations in three data centers needed consolidation into one — on a two-year plan

  • Encumbrance procurement and financial processes had to be re-engineered in the same move

Client Solution

  • Conversion Design: Project manager, technical lead, designer, and developer for the conversion program suite — merging data, converting the chart of accounts for Job Costing, and converting Fixed Assets structures

  • Process: Led Encumbrance Procurement and fiscal/procurement procure-to-pay re-engineering

Client Impact Results

  • A two-year plan completed in five months

  • 19 months of projected consulting fees eliminated, plus two redundant JDE subscriptions and two data centers of OpEx

Client Technologies

  • JDE World A7.3 (GL, Encumbrance Procurement)

  • Data conversion program suite — RPG on AS/400-DB2

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