IT landscape
The existing landscape is an aging set of on-premises solutions and makes heavy use of human processes. To establish some direction, it is obviously necessary to both understand the existing and desired IT Landscapes.
The core components of the existing landscape are made up as follows:
Financial processes
All the financial processes are realized by an on-premises ERP fronted by services deployed on top of Oracle SOA Suite. The data to be consumed by ERP comes through several approaches:
- Keying or rekeying of data
- Manually imported from spreadsheets and CSV files, driven through the UI
- A number of Oracle SOA Suite services receiving SOAP/WSDL calls from other systems within the organization or exposed by VPN tunnels with a few service providers and protected and exposed through the use of the previous version of Oracle API Gateway
- Data extraction through reports driven by manual processes or scheduled jobs
The financial processes cover activities including:
- Artist management-this covers...