Oracle E-Business Suite
Move the data you need into Oracle Fusion. Preserve everything else in a secure historical archive. Switch off EBS.
Oracle E-Business Suite rarely gets switched off at go-live. It stays up for prior-year ledgers, closed purchase orders, leaver records, payroll history and the attachments nobody could migrate — and keeps consuming licence, hosting, database and DBA cost while it waits to be asked a question.
Oracle Fusion goes live. Open balances, active suppliers, current employees and in-flight transactions come across. Closed accounting periods, terminated assignments, historical payroll runs, completed purchase orders and every FND_ATTACHED_DOCUMENTS row stay behind, because they do not belong in the target data model.
Twelve months later EBS is still running. The finance team pulls prior-year comparatives from it, HR retrieves leaver records from it, payroll answers queries against it, and internal audit asks for transaction-level evidence out of it. The programme closed; the cost did not.
A Legacy Exit extracts EBS financials, procurement, HCM and attachment history into DataVault, reconciles source-to-target counts, makes the records searchable and exportable through DataLens, and then lets the EBS environment be decommissioned against a documented plan.
Two flows, run by the same platform. What the new application needs is migrated. Everything else is preserved and made accessible, which is what allows the old environment to be switched off.
Scope is agreed in discovery. On an EBS retirement it usually covers the following, along with the reference data those records resolve against.
Journals, balances, closed periods, chart of accounts and the code-combination history that historical reporting depends on.
Invoices, payments, holds, supplier history and the scanned invoice images attached to them.
Transactions, receipts, adjustments, customer history and ageing at period close.
Requisitions, purchase orders, receipts, approvals and the approval hierarchy that authorised them.
Asset records, additions, retirements, depreciation history and the asset register at each year end.
Assignments, effective-dated employment history, elements, deductions, payroll runs and year-end records.
Inventory transactions, on-hand history, order management and shipment records.
FND attachments — scanned invoices, contracts and correspondence — archived against the record they belong to.
Change and approval trails, without which the archived transaction loses its evidential value.
The parts of this platform that decide whether a retirement succeeds or stalls.
Nobody signs off a decommissioning on the basis that the archive looks right. Each extract is reconciled back to Oracle EBS and the evidence is retained as part of the decommissioning pack.
Illustrative figures shown to explain how reconciliation evidence is presented. They are not drawn from a specific customer engagement.
A single-module EBS archive with modest attachment volumes is typically a matter of weeks after discovery. A full multi-module financials, procurement and HCM retirement with large attachment volumes and custom objects runs longer, and the duration is established in discovery before implementation is committed.
Work is delivered as fixed-scope packages priced against the scope established in a Legacy Exit Discovery. Projects typically start from £25K. UK public-sector buyers can call the work off through G-Cloud 15.
Published SyntraETL engagements on the same architecture. Every figure below comes from the referenced case study rather than from a marketing claim.
A government body migrated Oracle EBS financials to Oracle Fusion with a controlled, repeatable and reconciled migration process.
Read the case study →Historical records retained in a searchable archive so the source environment could be reduced.
Read the case study →Finance, procurement and master data migrated out of SAP ECC with source-to-target reconciliation at every cycle.
Read the case study →A Legacy Exit Assessment establishes exactly which EBS modules, which years and which attachment volumes are still in play, what the environment costs to run today, and what a scoped retirement would take.