AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Los Angeles
County Office of the Assessor has successfully migrated its
Assessor operations from a paper-based, legacy mainframe
environment to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). By moving to
Oracle Cloud, the Office is able to speed up data processing,
reduce risk, and improve the user-experience. Using a series
of OCI services including Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Oracle
Analytics Cloud, Oracle Exadata Cloud Service, and Oracle Database
Cloud Service, LA County is seeing dramatic improvements in
performance and achieving significant cost savings by eliminating
its on premise infrastructure.
As the largest local assessment agency in the country, the Los
Angeles County Office of the Assessor reviews more than 400,000
property documents and completes 500,000 physical property
appraisals each year. This work was previously conducted with a
paper-based process using 40-year-old mainframe technology that
required manuals to interpret its code. With such a high volume of
assessments, compounded by California's complex requirements, the
Assessor's Office realized this model wasn't sustainable.
The Office began work on a five-phase Assessor Modernization
Project (AMP) to develop an in-house custom application with Oracle
Consulting. After three successful phases, the AMP application
became the go-to production system for the Assessor. During the
fourth phase of the project in February
2021, Oracle Consulting and the Assessor's Office extended
AMP functionality and moved the application from on-premises to OCI
with no disruptions, while eliminating 80 servers.
"The decision to move AMP to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure midway
through the project had huge benefits, including cost savings,
better performance, flexibility, and resource efficiencies," said
Kevin Lechner, CIO, Los Angeles
County Office of the Assessor. "We could now focus our attention on
application development and increased productivity rather than
infrastructure requirements and maintenance."
On OCI, data processing jobs that once took up to eight hours
are now processed in four; built-in Disaster Recovery is helping
mitigate risk; and end users are seeing faster page loads than ever
before. Soon, the Los Angeles County Office of the Assessor plans
to open access to AMP for other counties in the state.
"The Los Angeles County Office of the Assessor's modernization
project is one of the most forward-thinking government agency
endeavors we've seen in recent years," said Jeff Kane, group vice president, Oracle
Consulting, North America. "We're
looking forward to seeing additional performance enhancements and
cost savings they'll realize on OCI services, freeing up their IT
staff to innovate with new features and functionality on the
platform."
"One of my top goals coming into this Office was to make sure
that we provide public service that is both effective and
cost-efficient," said Jeff Prang,
Los Angeles County Assessor. "This
milestone of the project with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is our
biggest success to date."
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