1. Our Successes Lessons Learned
Hardware was all in place Product had lot of bugs in 12.0.3 and 12.0.4
Transition was very well planned TCA – watch out for Banks cleanup
Hired Strong Consultants Under-Resourced on Finance initially
Strong Patch Management Poor Quality of Accounts Payable
Close Team Work with Oracle Support UAT took a lot longer than planned
Good Technical, Functional, DBA Team Trying to do other projects at the same time
made it tough…….
Strong Post-Production Support
Oracle Support quality of analysts vary widely
Study gave a good view of Upgrade
Quality of Patches varies widely – test on
Automated Source Control Deployment Patch System before installing on any other
Strong Planning system
Spreadsheets Tracking Customization Progress Oracle has moved away from one-off patches.
Be prepared to apply very large patches
Spreadsheet Tracking Testing Progress
Check all Database Parameters and Sizing
Identified Oracle Payments as significant
upgrade task
Careful Simulation of Month End Close and
Cutover
Strong Documentation in Setup and
Deployment
Great Business Team willing to work extra
hours for UAT