Teatre Nacional de Catalunya Optimizes Show Production through Integrated Applications
 
 

Teatre Nacional de Catalunya Optimizes Show Production through Integrated Applications

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Created in 1996, Teatre Nacional de Catalunya is a theater company with a special focus on producing original plays written in the Catalan language. It has three stages on which cast members deliver 428 performances of 24 different shows each year to the delight of 180,000 audience members.

 
 

 
 

Challenges

A word from Teatre Nacional de Catalunya

  • “Creating a theater production involves hundreds of people with multiple job roles and working arrangements—from actors ,to set designers, to sceneshifters, and more. Our theater couldn’t work without this team spirit. Oracle E-Business Suite helps us to manage and balance all these elements and avoid the unexpected.” – Xavier Vilà Julvé, Technical Management Director , Teatre Nacional de Catalunya

  • Improve and simplify show production, a multifaceted project that includes budgeting and human resources (HR) management
  • Optimize use of diverse human resources, including actors, set designers, make-up professionals, stage crew, costume designers, technical staff, and others involved in the course of a production
  • Integrate the theater company’s e-ticketing, payroll, and HR management systems to improve the utilization of the three theater stages

Solutions

Oracle Product and Services

  • Implemented Oracle E-Business Suite in a two-step project over nine months, with the assistance of Oracle Partner Grupo Choice, enabling show production management
  • Achieved decentralized management for production subprojects that are ultimately orchestrated into the whole vision 
  • Gained the agility to manage each production as a separate project from start to finish, ensuring the visibility needed to ensure that each show is ready on time and on budget
  • Achieved real-time, accurate information from a single source and enabled the theater to trace data related to budget approvals, ticket selling strategies, promotions, and more
  • Gained efficiency in budget and HR resource allocation
  • Enabled the theater’s executive board and department heads to make more informed decisions
  • Set the stage to build on the theater’s Oracle implementation for marketing campaigns geared towards increasing tickets sales

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