Oracle Customer Case Study
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Published October 2007
UWV Upgrades Financial IT System in 3.5 Months
with Careful Planning and New Training Tools
Employee Insurance Schemes
Implementing Body (UWV)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
www.uwv.nl
Industry:
Public Sector
Annual Revenue:
US$10.9 million
Employees:
18,196
Oracle Products & Services:
PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial
Management
General Ledger
Accounts Payables
Accounts Receivables
Oracle User Productivity Kit
Oracle Partner:
Capgemini
www.capgemini.com
“Thorough preparations, excellent cooperation between all
project partners, and the efforts of our own team, we achieved a
successful upgrade to our PeopleSoft Enterprise implementation
from Oracle. In other words, we completed the project on time
without interrupting production.” – Jos Waanders, Head of
Financial and Economic Affairs-Data Processing and Provision
of Information, Employee Insurance Schemes Implementing
Body (UWV)
The Employee Insurance Schemes Implementing Body
(Uitvoeringsorgaan Werknemersverzekeringen), also known as
UWV, is a multi-billion euro organization that provides temporary
income when it is impossible for its citizens to work. The UWV’s
Financial and Economic Affairs department is responsible for
supervising these finances and the Data Processing and Provision
of Information unit registers all financial activities.
The UWV requires a robust and reliable financial infrastructure to
efficiently and accurately compile reports, annual accounts, and
annual financial statements, according to Jos Waanders, head of
Financial and Economic Affairs – Data Processing and Provision of
Information for UWV. “We must be able to provide insight into all
cash flows for our own operational management, but also for
justifying policy decisions. We support al