EPI-USE Labs built North American Lighting's entire Employee Central Payroll system with data migration in 5 days using EPI-USE Labs proprietary tools, with validated payrolls running. The PRISM service includes a parallel run and validation of the payroll results with historic master data and payroll data. With a traditional ECP implementation, it would have taken a number of months to stabilize the payroll.

In a short amount of time, EPI-USE Labs was able to get ECP back on track within the timeline. They lifted the whole SAP instance on-premise, and moved it to SuccessFactors. They took our existing payroll configuration, and drastically minimized the amount of time we had to spend configuring our ECP instance in SuccessFactors. EPI-USE Labs used their Data Sync Manager solution to migrate production data, with a transfer rate of 85GB an hour across the duration of the Sync. In the first hour, we frequently saw over 100GB transferred. Another benefit was that the EPI-USE Labs’ solution allowed us to bring over much more history and enough data to meet legal requirements.

Don Parker, AGM of IT Department, NAL

NAL also discovered that the EPI-USE Labs’ Query Manager and Variance Monitor could help them with reporting and comparing data before, during, and after Go Live. They were struggling with validating data on both on-premise and SuccessFactors, and Query Manager and Variance Monitor solved this. Prior to this, NAL was manually extracting data from multiple sources and doing v-look ups offline in Microsoft Excel, which runs the risk of manual or data conversion errors and security considerations.

Query Manager looks at our on-premise data, and the data in our SuccessFactors system, and allows us to compare that data and determine if there are any inaccuracies. Once we run the replication, we can look at the ECP to EC side, and see how many errors there are, what’s not right and what’s not matching. It’s so quick, we can filter out the noise we don’t need and focus on what’s important. On the reporting side, we needed this tool urgently! We expedited the process and have already delivered eight out of eleven reports. The tool has expedited the process, including finding errors. It’s also saved the Payroll and HR teams huge amounts of time. Time is the most valuable commodity and it’s in short supply - especially as we near the end of a project.

Don Parker, AGM of IT Department, NAL

The major benefit for us was the time savings. The data went up in 12 hours, which is a small fraction of the time it could have taken us. The value of the PRISM Migration Service is how quick it is; and there are no errors. There is no manipulation done, it moves the data from Point A to Point B as is. It’s a seamless process. It took away the manual process, and took out the room for error

Don Parker, AGM of IT Department, NAL