King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals Becomes Digitally Empowered
 
 

King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals Becomes Digitally Empowered

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The successful management of Saudi Arabia's vast petroleum and mineral resources poses a complex challenge for scientific, technical, and management education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, which enrolls more than 8,000 students, meets these challenges with technical and engineering programs that offer bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate degrees.

 
 

 
 

Challenges

A word from King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

  • “King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals has the majority of its functions running on Oracle E-Business Suite. The adoption of Oracle was a paradigm shift that changed the way we do business. We are now more digitally connected.” – Dr. Mansour Al-Dajani, Director, Information Technology Center, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

  • Simplify a heterogeneous computing environment with diverse operating systems and more than 40 mission-critical academic and administrative applications to reduce costs and cycle times
  • Deploy a comprehensive enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform that empowers user self-service, shortens transactional times, and streamlines management reporting
  • Provide students, teachers, and employees with centralized, personalized access to all campus information and services
  • Ensure high availability of the university’s IT services through application load-balancing, advanced database technology, and seamless integration between systems
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Solutions

Oracle Product and Services

  • Worked with Oracle Partner Tata Consultancy Services to implement Oracle E-Business Suite after a thorough in-house re-architecting of the university’s 160 core business processes and 3,200 subprocesses, meeting all documented functional requirements and maintaining a single source of data
  • Enhanced the productivity and accountability of employees with ERP-enabled business processes, producing considerable reductions in transactional costs and cycle times
  • Achieved seamless integration of all mission-critical applications with Oracle E-Business Suite, simplifying access to the university’s services for all registered students
  • Created a portal with a secure single sign on interface that is personalized to each user’s needs as well as a shared environment where students and teachers can collaborate easily
  • Established a business intelligence platform with Oracle Warehouse Builder ( a feature of Oracle Database Enterprise Edition 11g), facilitating data warehouse creation and reducing extract, transform, and load (ETL) requirements
  • Leveraged Oracle Database Enterprise Edition with Real Application Clusters to achieve almost no unplanned IT platform down time in three years of operation

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