Does the thought of implementing a software new software solution in your enterprise make you shudder? Even though you know that such an implementation will provide significant benefits to the organization, the process of initiating change can overshadow the rewards those benefits bring. Implementation does not have to be a feared word! Let Essential Software be your guide to a successful project launch.

1. Essential Software Solutions
Implementation
Process

2. Enclosed Presentation
• Who is ESS
• The Implementation
Process and Tools
• The Psychology of an
Implementation

3. How our customers
will achieve their growth.

4. Essential Software Solutions Inc.
• ESS has a proven track record of
partnering with clients and supporting
client objectives.
• ESS has a team of dedicated
implementation professionals eager to
bring their combined decades of
experience to the table.

5. The Gartner Group*….
• In a survey of 1,000 recently implemented
ERP solutions in the mid-market space, we
found that 75% of those customers
were unhappy with the results!

6. Keys to a Successful Implementation
Upper Clear
Management Objectives
Support
Project
Success !
Proper Plan
& Education
Dedicated
Resources Vendor Methodology
– Ampco Manufacturing Project Management

7. Why ESS can ensure Success.
• Project Charter
• Project Scope
• Project Plan
• Communications Plan
• Risk Analysis
• ESS Implementation Team
• Clear Objectives

8. Project Charter
• Authored by the customer
• Commits Upper Management to the
project
• Aligns the Project with the customer’s
Strategic Goals
• Makes the Project official
• Serves as input in to Project Scope.

9. Project Scope
• Builds on Project Charter
• Defines
• Objectives
• Scope
• Constraints
• Structure
• Roles
• Assumptions
• Deliverables

10. Project Plan
• Builds on Project Scope
• Contains
• Timelines
• Milestones
• Resources

11. Communications Plan
• Recipients determined by Project Scope
• Media
• Email
• Verbal
• Formal Meeting
• Newsletter

12. Risk Analysis
• All projects have risk
• Risk can be positive and negative
• Risk needs to be defined
• Good planning will reduce negative risk
and increase the positive outcomes.
• “You cannot manage what you do not
measure”.

13. Implementation Team
• The ESS team is comprised of individuals
with a broad range of expertise and
certifications (CGA, CPIM, BSc Computer
Science, BCom. ….) and real-life
experience. Our project teams are known
for delivering as promised, on time, every
time.

14. Clear Objectives
• Defined in the Project Charter
• All the Project Implementation tools ESS
uses support the strategic goals of client
• ESS views its relationship with it’s
customers as a partnership, all successes
are mutual.

15. Triangle of Truth
Scope
Quality
Resources Time

16. Project Emotional Life Cycle
Workload
Confidence Level

17. Review
• ESS uses a planned, methodical approach
to Project Management and ERP
Implementation
• ESS uses tools and techniques aligned to
support clearly defined objectives
• ESS is prepared to support it’s customers
with the emotional highs and lows of the
Implementation.

18. Next Steps
• Select Essential Software Solutions as
preferred vendor.
• Demonstration
• Review and sign contract.
• Define Project Charter.
• Define Project Scope.
• Implementation Kick-Off and Planning
Meeting.