Solution Architecture & Operational Workflow
Technical Overview
The Client
Sri Lanka's largest employer, Sri Lanka Army comprises over 200,000 officers and soldiers deployed across the entire island nation.
Requirement
The management required an effective & vibrant system to cater to its demanding requirements in paying all the personnel who are deployed across the Island in time, especially during wartime.
It also required a strong reporting mechanism on personnel information for the Management to boost its decision making process. The management demanded a stable application architecture to support tight integration needs as the different units operated independently across the SLA's payroll processing.
The Challenge
- Replace aged multiple systems that operated independently for each military unit with a single unified, mission-critical platform.
- Apply obligatory and requisite payroll rules into the core system including highly customized different plans and exceptional business rules.
- Any modification or deviation from the existing payroll rules had to be carefully studied and applied because of potential impacts on multiple payroll scenarios.
- Procedures demanded well-established rules and methodologies to automate backdated payroll calculations.
- Train and convert hundreds of users who had been accustomed to legacy manual methods to adopt automated methodologies.
Our Approach
Our Team conducted an in-depth analysis through a pre-defined process to identify the organizational objectives, technical aspects of the project and the real operational requirements. The Team succeeded in this by establishing close interaction with subject matter experts of the organization, conducting interviews of end users, and analyzing written documentation and data structures of the existing systems.
We planned a phased iterative roadmap prioritizing high business value first to achieve expected milestones in the long run until final go-live.
Bottom Line, The Solution & Benefits
The solution based on ORACLE & JAVA technology successfully replaced the multiple systems across the organization with a mission-critical single integrated system to pay over 200,000 personnel monthly. It provides essential management information in real-time and is supported by an ongoing post-live support service.
This mission-critical application is boosted by key capabilities:
- Highly customized business rules
- Business critical operations & wartime reliability
- Location-based pay processing across the island
The management is fully satisfied as the introduction of the new solution helped to reduce operating costs drastically, and the Sri Lanka Army has reliably operated this system continuously since 2004.
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