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Top 5 tips to cut the effort of your
Oracle EBS R12 project by a third
Delivering Quality Through Innovation
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Oracle EBS is…
Critical & Integral – runs the business
Very complicated – a mystery to most
Often customized
Challenging to test
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What is your company’s current situation?
Already upgraded to R12.1
Plan to upgrade to R12.1
Plan on deciding when to upgrade to R12.1
Are discontinuing use of EBS
Getting support for 11i via 3rd party
Re-implement EBS
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Situation Assessment
End of life coming for 11i
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Upgrade responsibilities
IT responsibility
Database Changes
Customization redevelopment
Project Management
Business responsibility
Functional & process changes
System validation
UAT
Training Materials
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Stakeholders
Training
Business Analyst
Power User
DBAProgrammers
Help Desk
Project ManagersBusiness Leaders
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How many Power Users do you expect to
involve in Testing & Validation?
Less than 10
10 to 30
31 to 50
50 to 70
Over 70
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Biggest challenges
Confirmed top 3 Challenges
Inadequate
validation processes
Poor communication
and collaboration
Limited access to needed
business resources
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Optimized validation
Current 11i functionality defines
requirements of R12 testing
Customizations add to complexity
“ALL about TESTING and
VALIDATION” a business perspective
You need to involve business to test –
in a big way
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Are you enabled for success?
Are your current scenarios
well documented?
Are your business users
easily accessible?
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How well documented are your business
processes?
Poorly
Some documentation, likely out of date
Customizations documented, little else
Well documented
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Knowledge transfer is key
Transform “Tribal” knowledge
into formal
It’s all about collaboration
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Why do you need a
knowledge base?
Sheer volume
Prioritize
» Business critical vs. low impact
» High risk vs. low risk
Categorize
» Standard vs. Customizations
Various & Numerous people
involved
Different skills & areas of expertise
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What to collaborate?
Project plans
Resources
Timescales
Tasks
Progress
Coverage
Re-use
Knowledge
Data
Environments
Availability
Audit
Traceability
Customizations
Complexity
Process
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Collaboration – How?
How to establish a Knowledge Base?
Workflow & Process to “herd the cats”
Dashboards & Visibility
Time saving tools
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Once upgrade process starts…
All ongoing initiatives
stop until upgrade is
done
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Technology can help
Provide Structure & best practice
Unified collaboration
Capture knowledge
Manage validations
Effective automation
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What is the most important success factor for an
Oracle EBS upgrade at your organization?
Minimize the risk of the application not supporting
core business
Minimize the project cost
Deliver as quickly as possible
Minimize the time business users
participate in the project
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Technology benefits
Ensure Success
Greater coverage, less risk
Increase Visibility
Shared problem, shared success
Minimize Impact
Start Quickly
Easy to use
Save 30% Time, Money
During upgrade
On-going patches
Eliminate a CRP
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