Home Box Office Upgrades Applications to Improve System Performance and Reduce Dependence on IT
 
 

Home Box Office Upgrades Applications to Improve System Performance and Reduce Dependence on IT

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Home Box Office (HBO®), a subsidiary of Time Warner, offers television programming to approximately 85 million subscribers worldwide via its HBO and Cinemax® premium networks. Among HBO’s many acclaimed original programs are True Blood®, Boardwalk Empire®, Game of Thrones℠, Hung® , Bored to Death® and Curb Your Enthusiasm®. *

 
 

 
 

Challenges

A word from Home Box Office

  • “We are focused on maintaining overall operational efficiency through our increasingly diverse business. Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1 has enabled us to move toward an automated system that enables our business users to do their jobs more efficiently. It helps us meet today’s goals and serves as a platform for future growth.” – Mike DiPietro, Director of Financial Operation and Reporting, Home Box Office

  • Improve performance and stability of business applications and set the foundation for future upgrades for the growing entertainment company
  • Streamline patching process to minimize IT involvement and enable business users to do their jobs more effectively

Solutions

Oracle Product and Services

  • Worked with IBM’s Global Business Services to upgrade to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 to improve business application performance for 200 daily users and 2,000 total users
  • Centralized business data and supported online approvals and workflow—eliminating reliance on spreadsheets, enabling repeatable processes, and driving toward business process consistency across the company
  • Used Oracle Financials, Oracle Project Costing, and Oracle Project Billing to capture data at a very detailed level and analyze it from multiple angles to determine how specific shows/titles are performing in various distribution channels
  • Provided business users with direct access to information, minimizing reliance on static reports built by IT
  • Leveraged Oracle iProcurement to automate time-consuming, paper-based processes, such as invoice payments, where the system routes invoices to the appropriate approver, based on cost center, type of expense, and amount
  • Put a foundation in place for an eventual migration to Oracle Fusion applications
  • Worked closely with IBM on the upgrade, testing early and often, as well as involving key stakeholders throughout planning, testing, and execution—completing the implementation on time

Partner

  • Oracle Partner
    IBM





*HBO, Cinemax and related trademarks are the property of Home Box Office, Inc