Stability, reliability, and security for Education Payroll Limited

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Taking application development to the next level to modernize payroll services at EPL

EPL is responsible for paying around 96,000 teachers and support staff in about 2,500 schools every two weeks. Payroll processing totals about $210 million per pay period and more than $5.1 billion per year. Over the years, Deloitte and EPL have developed a strong relationship rooted in helping EPL and its stakeholders repeatedly achieve their goals. Driven by the desire to be responsive to its customers, EPL had a vision of streamlining development, testing, deployment, and speed to market using a platform.

EPL identified Red Hat OpenShift as the technology of choice for the platform and engaged Deloitte to build this new capability. Teaming with EPL, we delivered upon its vision, developing a new platform to serve as the foundation for all future solution development (including a new digital payroll system, EdPay) while upskilling EPL’s internal team.

By the numbers

TECHNOLOGY One layer of software to connect developers in a single interface for the entire system

IMPLEMENTATIONS One platform powered by OpenShift to change application development and deployment for the future

RESULTS All participants can contribute their specialized knowledge to a unified platform that supports cohesive development environments

The impact

Adoption of a Red Hat OpenShift development platform following DevOps principles provides considerable value to all of EPL—increased productivity, improved stability, higher reliability, and stronger security. The platform serves as a foundation, providing all developers with a single interface for the entire system:

		Mean time to deploy a product using the platform has gone from more than eight hours scheduled on a weekend to less than five minutes on demand during any weekday
		Processes that required more than three days for approval and scheduling are now an automated standard change that can be executed on demand
		Provides versioned dev, test, preproduction, staging, and production environments on demand
		Allows developers and testers to shift left by testing pull requests and executing automated API and UI testing
		Enables the business to rapidly experiment with new features like integrating a content management system and user guidance
		Delivers an internal self-service product that is well-positioned to provide value to EPL

Modernizing for a cloud-native world

Deloitte and Red Hat support business and technology leaders in delivering applications faster by modernizing their IT infrastructures. Using Red Hat’s open-source technology, our industry experience, and DevOps methodologies, we help drive the business integration, IT automation, and management needed to thrive in a cloud-native world. Together, we can help you accelerate innovation, reduce IT complexity, and deliver better business outcomes.

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