Learn how the Department for Education used AWS cloud to reduce payroll processing time without additional Oracle licensing
Department for Education (DfE) South Australia provides integrated education, training and child development services that benefit over 800 schools and 179,000 students in SA. DfE’s Payroll system was identified as the linchpin of the Education Business Continuity Plan. Failure to pay around 32,000 teachers would result in severe consequences. From this, the project was born to migrate a bespoke on-premise payroll system – a payroll system known as “Valeo” – to a secure cloud environment without impacting or degrading services. The Valeo Payroll System was to support payments to over 20K Department employees.
With their strategic local partners, Telstra Purple, Blue Crystal Solutions (BCS) and AWS, they were able to offer Valeo as a central cloud-based solution that schools can consume, with governance and controls in place.
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Thanks to the outcome of our Primesize Target Architecture report service, BCS identified a best-fit plan that saw them move into an AWS Cloud solution, significantly reducing their payroll processing without needing more licenses.
The Business Benefits
A reduction in processing time from 8 to 3 hours, meeting South Australia’s Auditor General’s recommendation for increased redundancy, durability, availability and cost-effectiveness compared to on-premises solutions.
“We wanted to work with a local company with the expertise and knowledge to do this. We didn’t want to reinvent the wheel and do this ourselves. We mitigated risk using Blue Crystal Solutions’ expertise” – Simon Chapman, Assistant Director, Digital Architecture and Operations, DfE.
Hear Simon, Vito Rinaldi, Managing Director for BCS and Shahin Mohamadian, Partner Acceleration Manager from AWS, recount DfE’s Public Sector Cloud Adoption journey with BCS in partnership with Telstra Purple, leveraging AWS technologies.
Learn more about their Public Sector Cloud Adoption journey in the video
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Australian-owned and operated, we have been experts in Cloud, Applications, Databases, and IT Infrastructure since 2004. We empower Governments with cutting-edge technology to maximise your security, efficiency, productivity, and growth.We understand how local, state and federal government policies and regulatory and privacy requirements need to be implemented to protect data and information. Our services use tools and AI to improve client operations and provide rapid delivery of solutions while managing costs and performance. Our vast range of services are designed to help Government agencies transform digitally to improve the lives of their customers and citizens. Whether it’s accessing our Cloud Services to accelerate your cloud adoption – from architecting and migrating ICT workloads to the cloud to the re-architecting or repurposing of legacy applications or having your data stored and managed in the best environment for you through our Database Managed Services, we can help you. Supported by a holistic and personal approach to solving business problems, we ensure our service delivery is aligned with your agency’s overall business strategy. With security at the forefront of everything we do, we can work with your cyber teams to improve your security posture significantly. Whether it’s delivering to cyber recommendations or providing an audit of your current risks that helps you understand your security and resilience, we can help you protect what matters most to your organisation.You can also rest assured that all your services with us are protected from event and service outages by our 24×7 monitoring tool, BlueDiamond. Harnessing our technology partner ecosystem, we collaborate with you, your team, and your wider organisation to deliver best-of-breed IT solutions. We can help you get to your 'next'.
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