American Airlines Merger-Driven Data Transformation Takes Off with Data Migration and Data Governance Project
Key Takeaways
⇨ American Airlines, with Syniti's assistance, successfully migrated and consolidated HR and payroll data for over 335,000 employees from legacy systems to SAP SuccessFactors and HANA Enterprise Cloud Platform.
⇨ Syniti's tools and expertise ensured the secure, accurate, and automated data transformation, creating over 10,000 business rules and generating 2,600 reports to support error resolution and validation.
⇨ The project, one of the largest cloud-based HR and payroll integrations in the industry, resulted in more than 99.9% automation of employee data transformation, demonstrating significant improvements in data quality and governance.
The merger of American Airlines and US Airways required a major initiative, called “Project Spring”, to consolidate HR and payroll data across the newly combined airline’s 130,000+ active employees and 500,000+ former employees. A Premier SAP Solution Extensions Partner, Syniti partnered with AA to lead data migration
and information governance efforts for this program. The project involved migrating employee populations in legacy US Airways and AA systems to SAP SuccessFactors and HANA Enterprise Cloud Platform, a single, cloud-based platform.
American Airlines, Inc. (AA) is the world’s largest airline when measured by fleet size, revenue, scheduled passengers carried, scheduled passenger kilometers flown, and number of destinations served. AA, together
with its regionaL partners, operates an extensive international and domestic network with an average of nearly 6,700 flights per day to nearly 350 destinations in more than 50 countries. AA has ten airport hubs and
handles 51.1 million passengers annually with an average of 140,000 passengers daily.
As one of AA’s largest post-merger data transformation programs, Project Spring demanded superior data migration and information governance capabilities to effectively migrate comprehensive legacy employee data from SAP HCM, Oracle HR and multiple supporting system into SAP SuccessFactors and HANA Enterprise Cloud Platform. The new cloud-based HR and payroll solution would then serve as a single, cloud-based solution to manage all HR data.
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