Beacon’s customers span a wide range of businesses and industries. However, they all share the same requirement when it comes to their PeopleSoft Enterprise applications – the need to implement, optimize, update and maintain those applications without interruption to their daily business needs and at a reasonable cost.
Here are a few examples of how Beacon’s services and software have brought value to our customers.
Company Profile: | Provider of real estate development and management, brokerage and real estate services, and business telecommunications to commercial clients. | |
Key Business Issues: | Manage PeopleSoft upgrade with introduction of new functionality. Streamline testing.. Minimize interruption of users in testing process. Establish testing methodology and platform.. Provide centralized issue tracking and documentation. |
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Products: | BEAM Test BEAM Change |
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Business Benefits Realized: | Developed an automated regression test and quick, repeatable validation process. Relieved users of manual burden of repeated test cycles. Provided auditable testing results. Consistent testing and documentation across modules. |
Company Profile: | A natural gas-focused energy company with core operations in the Rockies and Midcontinent. The company finds, produces, gathers, processes, transports, stores and distributes natural gas. |
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Key Business Issues: | Lack of integrated, cross-application testing. Inconsistent testing approach and documentation across modules. Issue tracking system only focused on bug fixing . |
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Products: | BEAM Test BEAM Change |
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Business Benefits Realized: | Developed and implemented testing standards, approach, and naming convention methodology. Created test library which can be used for upgrade and beyond. Issue tracking used to centralize documentation and activity tracking . |
Company Profile: | A financial services holding company offering complete banking, asset management, health spending solutions and related financial services to commercial, institutional and personal customers nationwide |
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Key Business Issues: | Automation/elimination of manual processes. Facing costly SAP upgrade and decided to convert to PeopleSoft. Integration with banking systems. Automation/elimination of manual processes and spreadsheets. Management reporting and automated consolidation. Enhanced control and reconciliation processes. |
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Products: | GL, AP, AM, AR, Expenses, Projects, HR, Payroll, Ben Admin, T&L, Absence Management, Performance Management, e-Apps, UPK, OBIEE |
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Project Status: | Financials and HCM live |
Company Profile: | A global private equity firm investing exclusively in mid to upper mid market buyouts and selective growth capital investments |
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Key Business Issues: | Maintenance of all financial data centrally while supporting secure system access and data entry from all worldwide subsidiaries. Reporting and consolidations, 150+ entities. Deal costing. Global multicurrency support, including multiple calendars. Integrated budget and forecasting capabilities that will support business modeling and management reporting.. |
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Products: | GL, AP, AR, Cash Management, AM, Expenses, HCM, Portal | |
Project Status: | Initial Financials Implementation live |
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