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Willbros Group, Inc. Enhances Project Management and Improves Enterprise-Wide Visibility

Overview Willbros Group, Inc. is a leading international contractor, serving the oil, gas and power industries worldwide for more than 90 years. Willbros wanted to update legacy IT environment to accommodate rapid growth and provide flexibility to adapt to changing business needs. The company wanted to consolidate IT systems, processes, procedures, and disparate business units under standardized infrastructure and allow better enterprise-wide project visibility - from procurement and billing to job status and job costs. Working together with Oracle Consulting Services, Willbros streamlined IT environment - replacing global, disparate systems with a single instance of Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applications on one technology platform and consolidated Financial management and reporting to a single instance utilized globally.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Oracle	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2006
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Infrastructure Management

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