Case Study: Vodafone achieves 90% faster application access provisioning, 50% faster integrations and 15% lower operating costs with Oracle

Vodafone Shortens Application Access Provisioning by 90%, Integrates Applications 50% Faster, and Cuts Operating Costs by 15%

Vodafone Group plc, a global telecommunications leader, needed to tighten security and simplify identity and access management for some 250,000 employees and business partners across many countries. The company sought a centralized, user‑friendly solution to reduce costs and complexity, accelerate application and data integrations after multiple acquisitions, and improve the onboarding/offboarding experience while maintaining local autonomy for operating companies.

Vodafone implemented a global identity‑management platform using Oracle Identity Manager, Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Identity Federation and related Oracle technologies, delivered with Accenture and Oracle Consulting in a six‑month, factory‑style rollout. The platform cut time to provision application access by up to 90 (new hires from five days to less than one), halved application integration time, trimmed authoritative data‑source integration by 30%, reduced operating costs by 15%, enabled federated single sign‑on and automated deprovisioning, and improved security, user experience and time‑to‑market for new services.

Vodafone

Nick Tuffs

Principal Delivery Manager, Vodafone Technology Security