Case Study: Scottish Government achieves unified HR and finance operations with IBM

Transforming services, unlocking value with Oracle Cloud

The Scottish Government needed to replace fragmented, outdated legacy HR and finance systems that relied on spreadsheets and manual workarounds, creating inefficiency and operational risk. It turned to IBM and Oracle Cloud to support its goal of building a shared services model across public bodies and improving finance, HR, payroll, and purchasing operations.

IBM helped design, configure, migrate, integrate, and test the new Oracle Cloud platform, while also supporting change management and post-go-live stabilization. The solution successfully processed payroll for 20,000 employees within three weeks of go-live, fully integrated HR and finance data for the first time, and created a foundation for extending shared services to hundreds more public bodies.

Scottish Government

Brian Reid

Director of Corporate Transformation