Case Study: City of Atlanta achieves faster month-end closes and $17.5M savings with Oracle Cloud

Atlanta goes all-in with Oracle Cloud back-office applications

The City of Atlanta moved to modernize its finance, budgeting and HR systems ahead of the February 2019 Super Bowl to better handle event-driven demands (temporary hires, payroll and high visitor volume) and to streamline business processes. Because the NFL typically restricts major projects within six months of the game, city leaders secured a waiver before replacing a highly customized on‑premises Oracle E‑Business Suite and Hyperion environment.

Atlanta chose an all‑cloud deployment of Oracle Cloud ERP, EPM and HCM, implemented with Deloitte in under 15 months. The city expects $17.5M in 10‑year savings, cut month‑end close from 10 days to 5, reduced procurement paper by about 80%, moved 64% of invoices to electronic processing within six months (90–95% by year‑end 2019), and enabled mobile self‑service for employees.

City of Atlanta

John Gaffney

Deputy Chief Financial Officer