Case Study - McKesson Oracle Forms Upgrade Project

Mckesson

“We used their migration services to convert 250 Oracle Forms in four months, which with staffing at the time would have taken 3 years to convert.”

Eddie Hurt
Senior Application Advisor

Background

McKesson Information Solutions is part of McKesson Corporation, a Fortune 20 healthcare services and information technology company. McKesson is dedicated to helping its customers deliver high-quality healthcare by reducing costs, streamlining processes and improving the quality and safety of patient care. Over the course of its 170-year history, McKesson has grown to provide pharmaceutical and medical-surgical supply management across the spectrum of care: healthcare information technology for hospitals, homecare and payors; hospital and retail pharmacy automation; and services for manufacturers and payors designed to improve outcomes for patients.

Challenge

McKesson’s Horizon Clinicals™ development team found it difficult to operate on the existing system given their increasing business demands. They wanted to modernize and migrate the user interface of their primary application environment, Oracle Forms version 3.0. Oracle Forms 3.0 was out of date, not user friendly and limited their ability to integrate with other Oracle products. After researching several different migration service providers, they found that many were not able to deliver an appropriate solution. McKesson also wanted to deploy on the Linux platform that would provide them with a more open environment.

Solution

McKesson decided to reinvest with Oracle, using Unify | CipherSoft’s ExodusTM migration software to convert 250 of their Oracle Forms applications written in 3.0 to Forms 6i, a GUI based Forms solution.

Unify | CipherSoft’s migration service included changes to the character based Forms to produce a GUI application and web capabilities. McKesson recognized many benefits from this conversion project including increased ease of use for end users, increased efficiency of operations and flexibility of the converted application across various platforms. The migration project was completed on time and within budget.

Client Reference

  • Eddie Hurt, Senior Application Advisor
    McKesson Information Systems
    eddie.hurt[ at ]mckesson.com

Update:

McKesson and Ciphersoft's Conversion Project was featured in an » Oracle Customer Snapshot