205200 tunneling our way to success at aegion

www.partnersconsulting.com

enterprise

talent

cloud

mobile

Tunneling Our Way to Success at Aegion

Daniel L Williams, PhDOracle Practice Manager

Partners Consulting


Topics

• History of Aegion

• Planning Growth

• Taming the Enterprise

• Project Lifecycles

• Systems Used

• Tying it all together

• The Nitty Gritty Details

• Project Close


History – Insituform and the Cured-In-Place Process

Patent: 1974-1997

Wet-out facility

“Over the Hole”


Growth: Organic

Madison Ave, NYSalt River Outflow

San Diego Airport


Growth: Acquisition

Different:

• Customers

• Accounting Systems

• Project Mgmt Processes

• Company Culture

Corrpro – live on JDE Jan 2013

Aegion – integrations live Jan 2013


Growing Pains

• Higher volume of work

• Larger projects

• Globally dispersed

• New subsidiaries

• Need to create corporate-wide

system to manage current and

future work


Solution:

• Establish company-wide processes

• Enforce process through best-of-breed

software

• Integrate data to enforce processes

Enablement:


Partners Consulting • Integration

• Automation

• Project Controls

1995-2005 AniWorld

Custom application development (estimating &c)

Integrated Expedition 7.0 JDE World

Took up TGIF integrations

Primavera Technical Partners

-> General Contractors

2005-2008 IT Resources

PeopleSoft & E-Business Suite

Dimension Integration Framework

->Public Sector work (School Districts)

2008-2012 Partners Consulting

• Oracle Partner

• Primavera Implementation

• Oracle BI Publisher

• Utilities, Oil & Gas

2012 Partners/Calance

• Global Reach

• Enterprise + Cloud + Mobile + Talent


The Partners Family

Partners Consulting provides managed

services, hosting, and custom application

development across a number of

industries. Our combined experience of

delivering high-quality solutions to our

clients spans over 25 years. We offer a

wealth of knowledge and expertise that

can be leveraged for our over 150 clients.


Partners Consulting Clients


Aegion: State of the Enterprise in 2012/2013

Winning Jobs

Estimating Work

Accounting for Costs

Scheduling Tasks

Managing Costs


P6 Projects Link From JDE

P6 Projects Update From JDE

PCM Projects Link From JDE

PCM Projects Update From JDE

PCM Companies Update From JDE

JDE Budgets Add From EDB

PCM Budgets Add From JDE

JDE Budget Changes Add From PCM

PCM Commitments Add From EDB

PCM Owner Contracts Add From JDE

PCM Owner Payments Add From JDE

JDE Commitments Add From PCM

JDE Commitment Cos Add From PCM

JDE Commitment Payments Add From

PCM

PCM Invoices Update From JDE

PCM Inventory Issues Update From

JDE

PCM Job Costs Update From JDE

PCM Approvals Update From JDE

JDE – JD Edwards 9.1

PCM – Primavera Contract Manager 14

P6 – Primavera P6 8.2

EDB – Estimating Database

CRMOD – CRM On Demand

The Integrations


A Step Back: What are we trying to do?

• Remove duplicate data entry

• Enforce data integrity

• Automate transfer of data at appropriate

timesPrincipals

• Integration ONLY does what a human could do

• Integration replaces ONE clearly defined task

• Integration has explicit tests and success criteria


Opportunity

Job

Project Level

Project

Link on CRMOD

ID

Status Close

Project

Status Start

Create P6 Project

from CRMOD

Create, Link, and Update project

Statuses

Project

PCMP6JDE

Job Project

Status Start

Status Close


Cost Account

Planned Costs

Upload

Budget

Budgets, Self-Performed work, and

delivered materials

Budget

PC

M

JDE

Tube

Contract

EDBCost

Tube

Materials

Upload

Budget

Budget COUpload

Budget CO

Tube

Delivery

Budget

Budget CO

Inventory

Issue

Self-Performed

Job CostsJob CostsUpload

Job Costs

Upload

Inventory

Create

Tube PO

Create

Self-

Performed


Committed Costs Contracts, Changes, and Payments

Companies

PCMJDE

Payment

Purchase Order

/Change Order

Invoice

Committed Contract/

CO

Synch

Companies

Create

Commitment / CO

Vendors

Create

Invoice


Owner Costs Contracts and AR

Owner Contract

PCMJDE

AR Invoices Payments

Update

Contract

Update AR

Owner Contract


Approvals JDE Approval levels translated to

PCM review cycles

Original Budget

Approval (RFI)

PCMJDE

Commitments

Approval Levels

Commitments

COs

Budget COs

Payments


Assessment Requirements Design DevelopmentUser

TestingDeployment

• Project Duration: 6 months

• Development Time: 3 months

Integration Project Lifecycle


Aegion is everywhere!


Recap

• Integrations are only a means to an end

• Understand client business and goals

• Develop overall process workflow (unique to

Aegion)

• Decompose workflow into simple, repeatable

processes -> integrations


Questions?Daniel L Williams

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6610 Gunpark Dr, Suite 200B

Boulder, CO 80301

1-800-929-8128

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