IT consultancy Accenture has recently completed the deployment of the General Fund Enterprise Business System, one of the largest enterprise resource planning setups in the world.

The GFEBS will be used to handle the Army’s entire financial and infrastructure assets, as well as to manage cost management and performance data. The ERP setup also includes a core sub-system for the Army General Fund, and is the most comprehensive solution that the military branch has ever put in place.

“Our defense clients are facing tremendous financial and budgetary pressures. GFEBS is helping the Army realize cost savings while increasing efficiencies,” said John Goodman, who leads Accenture’s defense and intelligence agency business. “Accenture provides decision makers with systems and processes to better manage the enterprise and generate savings.”

The services provider released some statics to go along with update.

The GFEBS is apparently replacing no less than 107 legacy systems, and over twenty of those have been retired so far. Accenture says that it system processes over one million transactions per day as of now and supports over 52,000 users, two figures that will grow substantially as the roll-out finalizes.

The platform can be deployed to Unified Combatant Commands, manage foreign national payroll and do a number of other things that the Army couldn’t do before.  And Accenture certainly knows a thing or two about managing data and enabling new services to scale.  Accenture Senior Manager and Big Data R&D Lead, John Akred noted some exciting and challenging developments in the space at the Cassandra Summit earlier this month, commenting on the sustainability of relational databases during a time when NoSQL is all the rage.

In all, Accenture’s deal with the US Army covers a lot of things beyond the actual development and implementation of the ERP system. Accenture says it held about 4,000 training sessions to educate Army and civilian staff on how to use the software, and is also in charge of the 24/7 help desk that offers troubleshooting to end users.