Major Construction Company Deploys Boomi to Build Stable Data Core
2024年5月14日 - 10:50AM
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New Zealand’s HEB Construction uses Boomi to
connect local operations and integrate into parent company’s ERP
modernisation, guarding its local capability, governance, and AI
readiness
Boomi™, the intelligent integration and automation leader, today
announced that HEB Construction chose Boomi to enable the delivery
of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) modernisation project that
ensures global alignment with its parent company, bolstered local
governance, and established a re-use philosophy.
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Major Construction Company Deploys Boomi
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HEB Construction (HEB) is a major construction player with 1,500
employees in New Zealand. Founded in 1975, the company delivers
road, rail, marine, land, and urban development projects
nationwide. In 2015, HEB was acquired by VINCI Construction.
In 2022, HEB started the adoption of its parent company’s ERP
project, marking the first deployment outside of the European
Union. While the ERP platform typically replaces all in-country
systems, this was unsuitable for HEB due to the maturity of
existing local technology investments and the regulatory frameworks
under which it operates.
“With New Zealand’s regulatory and functional requirements
contrasting previously-deployed markets, it became clear a ‘digital
transplant’ wouldn’t be suitable – HEB required a different
approach,” said Mircel Van Der Walt, Enterprise Architect at HEB
Construction. “Instead, my team considered a hybrid integration
approach. This decision was driven not only by the necessity for a
compliant governance system, but also by our imperative to uphold
our existing expertise in local systems like HR. To ensure the new
ERP would thrive in this unfamiliar environment, we realised HEB
could only gain trust by innovating around a stable core.”
HEB implemented Boomi’s integration platform as a service
(iPaaS) to establish hub and spoke integration patterns between its
local applications, including payroll, timesheet, inventory
management, and equipment maintenance systems. Adopting the ERP’s
data structure as its data standard, HEB mirrored its local
patterns with the global ERP stack to form hub-to-hub connectivity.
This approach established seamless communication between both
companies and established re-usable integration patterns.
“Despite the ERP project’s complexity, our ‘slot’ in the larger
global rollout was kept to the same stringent 12-month timeframe.
But with the Boomi Enterprise Platform, we had a tool that enabled
us to deliver on time, plus create design interfaces that had reuse
value – it can effectively replicate what we achieved in other
parts of the world with similar local guardrails, regulations, and
operational requirements.”
HEB also implemented Boomi Master Data Hub (MDH) to deepen
collaboration and precision. With MDH, HEB can comprehensively
manage its digital assets through three abstracted layers: people,
projects, and equipment.
“By establishing boundaries between the three data archetypes,
ERP data accurately feeds through and lands where it should
locally, and vice versa. For example, new hire information now
pulls in our Boomi ‘people’ bucket and trickles up to the ERP when
minimum data completeness is reached.
“We’re becoming a digital centric business and not just a
construction company that has data. This means we aren’t just
installing shiny new tech; we’re giving systems meaning by
connecting them around the stable enterprise data core. This is
especially relevant to our AI plans, because you cannot have AI
without IA (information architecture). With Boomi, we’re now
ready.”
Nathan Gower, Senior Director for Enterprise, APAC at Boomi,
said, “This is a true representation of local innovation born out
of a global company’s recognition for unique requirements needed
in-region. HEB used Boomi to create a crossbreed of top performing
systems, and by doing so, established a mutual understanding that
there are no camps – rather, both organisations used their
respective systems and tools to create an integrated outcome
serving a common goal.”
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