Case Study: First American Launches CHAMP II

The nation’s largest data provider, First American Corporation supplies businesses and consumers with information in connection with the major economic events of people’s lives, such as getting a job, securing a mortgage or opening a business. Headquartered in Santa Ana, California, this Fortune 500 company traces its history to 1889.

Challenge: Coordinate Hierarchy Data with Payroll by Ultipro

First American outsourced its payroll systems to Fidelity Investments years ago. To manage the corporate organizational hierarchy at the time, RBZ&A created CHAMP (the Corporate Hierarchy All-Purpose Maintenance Program). CHAMP identifies each segment of the organization and its relationship to other segments. This information is critical to the accounting involved with payroll.

First American decided to switch payroll providers to Ultimate Software’s Ultipro service. Ultipro had different hierarchy requirements than Fidelity. As a result, First American decided to rebuild their corporate hierarchy management system and asked RBZ&A to develop a new version of CHAMP.

Solution: CHAMP II Maintains Hierarchy Information

RBZ&A created CHAMP II. This ASP.NET web application maintains the corporate organizational hierarchy from the highest level (the chart ID) to the lowest level (the cost center). The information is stored in an Oracle database. Hierarchical data integrity is ensured by the constraints built into the application and the database. CHAMPII allows multiple people to simultaneously update hierarchy information and displays those changes in real time. An extract process automatically collects the updates and sends them to Ultipro daily.

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