Department of Defence Case Study

The Department of Defence is the department of the Government of Ireland that is responsible for preserving peace and security in Ireland. The department is led by the Minister for Defence.

The high-level goal of the Defence organisation is: “To provide for the military defence of the State, contribute to national and international peace and security and fulfil all other roles assigned by government.”

Client Dept of Defence
Industry Government
Size 12,000+ Employees
Location Newbridge, Co. Kildare. Ireland

Report Migration

The Department of Defence along with MakoData completed a multi-month project, migrating 800+ reports from the end-of-life Oracle Discoverer to MakoDataAs part of the migration, additional improvements were made to the reports to maximise the value of the project and ongoing usage.

Complex and Legislative Data Needs

The Department of Defence have now automated their complex Single Pension Scheme and Appropriation Accounting needs needs with the MakoData solution, resulting in significant time savings and increased accuracy.

Future Proofed Solution

After a successful project and implementation, the team at the Department of Defence now have a world-class reporting and analytics solution that will cater for all of their reporting and data needs into the future.

Report Migration Success

The teams from MakoData and the Department of Defence have worked closely over the last few months to ensure all necessary reports were migrated from the now end-of-life Oracle Discoverer to the modern MakoData solution. Following on from a detailed analysis of the existing estate of legacy reports, the project was structured into a series of agile sprints to ensure success. In total over 800 reports were migrated to MakoData in a series of sprints. As part of the migration, additional improvements were made to the reports to maximise the value of the project and ongoing usage.

After a successful project and implementation, the team at the Department of Defence now have a world-class reporting and analytics solution that will cater for all of their reporting and data needs into the future. We were thrilled to work in partnership with the Department of Defence and look forward to continuing this successful relationship into the future.

To the future

Since the report migration, MakoData and the Department of Defence have worked together on countless projects. These include the single public service pension scheme roll out across all employees, continued training for Defence users and bespoke report creation.

We will continue to work closely with the Department of Defence into the future.

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What Our Customers Say

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Working with MakoData has made our critical report migration as seamless as possible. The approach and flexibility of the project approach meant that we were set up for success and allowed us sufficient time to focus on the outputs and adapt to the new system.

Following on from a successful project, we now have one reporting tool that will meet our operational, complex and strategic reporting needs. We would highly recommend the MakoData solution and service. Their solution really is world class.