A multimillion-rand project, to replace 45 legacy systems with the Oracle e-Business suite at the Airports Company of SA (ACSA), is set for launch.
After pitting enterprise resource planning (ERP) giants SAP and Oracle against each other in a private tendering process, Oracle emerged as the most suitable company when mapping its solutions against ACSA's requirements.
Theunis Chamberlain, IT and telecoms director at ACSA, says his team is in final consultations over how to begin work on the project. A 20-strong team of project managers and IT architects will work with arivia.kom, IBM Consulting, Oracle Consulting and Bula Solutions.
A service-oriented architecture (SOA) project, which will also be deployed at ACSA over the coming few years, will help to loosely connect architecture, adds Chamberlain. If a new requirement arises in two years' time, for instance, it will be easy to assimilate it into the systems, he says.
Although less visible than ACSA's recent deployment of FlightCheck terminals, allowing passengers to complete a "do-it-yourself" check-in, the ERP deployment is expected to generate greater cost-savings.
The SOA and ERP deployments should be complete by 2009, adds Chamberlain.
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