Case Study: Petmate cuts code-correction time by 30% and halves consulting costs with Panaya

Petmate Finds the Right Companion with Panaya & Oracle EBS 12

Petmate, a 50+-year-old maker of pet products with roughly $250M in revenue, needed to upgrade its aging Oracle EBS 11.5.10.2 to 12.1.3 after an IT assessment showed the older release would lose support. Facing aggressive growth plans, acquisitions, and tight timelines, the company sought a solution that would preserve operations while enabling new corporate capabilities.

Petmate engaged Lucidity for functional consulting and Panaya for automated impact analysis, which used Petmate’s data to pinpoint code changes and let the team leverage more junior developers. Panaya identified about 95% of objects needing correction, cut code-fix time by 626 hours (30%), halved consulting costs, and produced $124,000 in savings; the upgrade went live over Thanksgiving weekend with minimal issues.

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Mike Lynch

Vice President of Information Technology