AECOM's Global Utilization of Proliance

AECOM

• Ranked 352 in Fortune 500.
• Began to migrate to Proliance (from Prolog) in 2005.
• Uses 80/20 rule on projects using Proliance - 80% is standard best practices/processes & 20% customized to client specific needs. Try to keep to standards so as folks move from project to project there is consistency. - this is a key reason for our standardization goal as well
• Discovery session held at the outset of a project that lasts from 30 - 90 days.
• Internal program champions established as first line of support.
• Proliance - single version of the truth.
• 100B of 342B of work managed through Proliance.
• Try to embrace UI (User Inetrface) and only use OBAs (Office Business Applications) as needed.
• Various projects that Proliance is being used for -- UAE (Zayad National Museum & Louvre Abu Dhabi), Saudi Arabia (Knowledge Economic City) & Canada (Royal Canadian Mint).
• Data Center is in Texas 24x7 - "Sun never sets on projects" - multi servers, load balancing
• 100s of users - try to get external users to use it to improve collaboration but difficult at times.
• System used more for interfacing with the client facing systems than interfacing back to corporate AECOM for internal reporting.
• AECOM uses 5 organizations in Proliance.
• AECOM uses multi-currency functionality - personally have not seen this yet.