Case Study: KU Children’s Services achieves 50% faster month-end close and lower maintenance costs with Oracle Cloud ERP

KU Children’s Services lowers costs and drives revenue with Oracle Cloud

KU Children’s Services is a not‑for‑profit Australian provider of early childhood education and childcare with more than 120 years’ experience and multiple centres. Faced with an on‑premises mix of Oracle E‑Business Suite and several third‑party systems that demanded ongoing external vendor support, KU needed to modernize finance, cut maintenance costs, gain a single source of financial truth, and free finance staff from spreadsheet-heavy tasks.

Working with Oracle and partner Evosys, KU migrated to Oracle Financials/ERP Cloud in three months, eliminating multiple vendor contracts and substantially lowering maintenance costs. The move halved month‑end close time (from 10 to 5 days), reduced manual journals by 40% (50 to 30), and let finance staff spend 70% more time on analysis through live dashboards—improving visibility into centre-level spending and supporting better decision-making.

KU Children’s Services

Ajay Patankar

Systems Accountant