Take the lead, unlock new opportunities with Oracle E-Business Suite Upgrades.
As an Oracle EBS customer, you must know that Oracle has been releasing newer, modern, and more stable versions of Oracle E-Business Suite while deprecating older ones. Most importantly, Oracle has decided to discontinue the support to the EBS version 12.1 by the end of 2021.
To future proof, your Oracle E-Business Suite investments migrate to the EBS 12.2 platform to stay supported by Oracle for another 10+ years. Take a lead and unlock new opportunities by leveraging various functionality innovations, critical fixes, and statutory compliance related patches.
Modernize your Oracle E-Business Suite through Birlasoft’s "Route to 12.2" upgrade solutions with low-risk execution and save up to 30% of the cost involved in upgrade initiative.
Birlasoft offers differentiated solutions for fast-tracking your EBS application upgrades through realistic project sizing, automated custom code retrofit and multiple test iterations. We touch upon every aspect possibly impacted due to application upgrade and ensure that they are aligned for long term sustenance.
Get Future Ready. Upgrade to Oracle EBS 12.2 Platform.
Modern ERPs are constantly evolving to cater to the changing needs of the business. With new functionalities getting added with every next release, Oracle E-Business Suite is becoming more feature-rich, intuitive, and stable. As an organization, it becomes imperative to embrace the new versions as they offer more robustness, fewer glitches, better performance, better business visibility, and insights so that you worry less about your IT and be more productive at core business. You also get benefited from the fixes, critical patches, and localization-related changes that Oracle keeps releasing on an ongoing basis.
With 12.2 innovations, Oracle EBS customers will benefit from:
Online patching to reduce downtime involved in patch application to a few minutes
Embedded analytics through the enterprise command center
Numerous feature and functionality enhancements
Better digital and mobility capabilities
More intuitive and productive user interface
"Continuous Innovation" release model to eliminate costly upgrades
Key Considerations While Planning EBS 12.2 Upgrade
Typically, EBS upgrades are under-estimated due to inaccuracies and limited availability of data points, critical for planning. This leads to surprises during upgrade execution resulting in time and budget overruns. A careful evaluation of your environment is needed to plan and design your upgrade execution.
Upgrade Path
Multiple options varying in degree of functional changes adopted during the upgrade are available. These range from shortest and least disruptive like-to-like upgrade to transformational upgrade involving large scale changes to an existing solution. Most organizations conduct like-to-like upgrades and adopt innovations in an incremental manner subsequently through smaller, more focused projects.
Upgrade Scope
Mostly, application upgrades also involve tech-stack upgrade, infrastructure refresh, or even re-platforming and upgrade of interfacing third party systems as well. These activities, along with current database size, the volume of retrofitted customizations also determine the downtime needed during the final production upgrade.
Code Retrofit
There are more than 50,000 changes between 12.1 and 12.2 which can potentially impact the customizations deployed. The break-fix approach of fixing only what is broken is reactive and a more scientific approach of impact assessment to drive project planning is recommended. Impact of 12.2 EBR compliance also needs to be assessed and factored into project planning.
Testing & User Adoption
Upgrade projects involve rigorous test iterations to ensure that nothing is broken in the upgraded environment. For a like to like upgrades, the majority of this testing is conducted by the IT team. There are additional considerations around delta training to business users as well.
Birlasoft’s Route to 12.2 Solutions
End to End Coverage. Accelerated Execution.
Birlasoft "Route to 12.2" solutions provide comprehensive end-to-end services to cover your needs through-out the upgrade lifecycle and beyond. These services keep your cost and execution risk low through innovative usage of automation that was created based on the deep experience of successfully executing such projects. The benefit to you is accelerated low-risk execution and up to 30% cost savings for your upgrade initiative.
Upgrade Advisory
- Optimal load, route planning
- EBS version selection
- Upgrade vs implementation
- Oracle Cloud infrastructure business case preparation
- Upgrade best practices and tools
- Execution approach recommendations
- RFP preparation and vendor selection
Upgrade Assessment
- Upgrade impact assessment
- Project scoping covering functional, technical, DBA, IMS and 3rd party systems
- Migration path to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Project execution plan and budget estimates
- User change management recommendations
- Readiness assessment and recommendations
Upgrade Execution
- End-to-end upgrade execution
- Program management
- Organization change management
- Database and infrastructure management services
- Application functionality and performance testing
Elevate/ Modernize ERP
- Cloud infrastructure adoption
- Digital enablement
- Automation roadmap
- Address pain areas
- Return to native
Solution Highlights
- Drawing on extensive intellectual capital and in-depth experience with Oracle application upgrades, our "Route to 12.2" approach covers every step of the upgrade, including readiness assessment, impact analysis, code retro-fitment, system integration & regression testing, user adoption, cutover, go-live, and post-upgrade support
- Birlasoft's "Route to 12.2" rapid Oracle application upgrade solution comes with various built-in accelerator tools to save up to 30% of the cost of your upgrade initiative
- Our toolkit creates a baseline of current solution based on application configurations and deployed custom code and carries out the most comprehensive impact analysis for accurately sizing the project. This helps in reducing the execution risk and ushers in a high degree of predictability
- Our toolkit creates a baseline of current solution based on application configurations and deployed custom code and carries out the most comprehensive impact analysis for accurately sizing the project. This helps in reducing the execution risk and ushers in a high degree of predictability
- A thorough health check on the environment helps in identifying any code quality issues, code redundancy, performance bottlenecks, and other improvement opportunities to help drive initiatives to get more value out of your investments
Business Benefits
Drawing on extensive intellectual capital and in-depth experience with Oracle application upgrades, our "Route to 12.2" approach strives to bring excellence in execution at every step of the upgrade project. Key business benefits to our customers are:
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Most accurate solution discovery and impact analysis to eliminate guesswork with your upgrade project planning
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Accelerated execution at significantly lower risk through the proven toolchain
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Save up to 30% of the upgrade cost
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Drive ERP modernization initiatives
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Cloud Advisory and Migration Services
Solution Highlights
- Assessment of your IT landscape to identify opportunities for benefiting from cloud
- Creation of blueprint for augmenting EBS with Cloud SaaS applications or a long-term roadmap for a complete migration to SaaS platform
- Creation of roadmap for adoption of Cloud Infrastructure for hosting your EBS workload
- Migration to cloud infrastructure and implementation of SaaS solutions
Benefits
- Comprehensive assessment for a creating realistic roadmap
- An automated solution to derive cloud application setups based on EBS configurations
- End to end seamless data extraction from EBS and load into SaaS thereby saving 30% of the effort involved in manual execution
Value Harvesting
Solution Highlights
- Identify process improvements and drive better user adoption & system usage
- Create a roadmap for adopting digital solutions like mobility, digital assistants, user experience solutions to bring more value to your business community
- Identify opportunities to automate business processes through RPA to transfer execution of voluminous mundane tasks to bots
- Identify solution redundancy and create a roadmap for retirement
Benefits
- Use of proprietary tools reduces the assessment duration by 40-50%
- Modernize ERP
- Help get more from existing EBS investments
SmartAMS Application Maintenance and Support
Solution Highlights
- Fully managed next-generation application maintenance solution that is proactive, quality-focused, predictable, and flexible. SmartAMS undertakes harmonization of people, process, and technology to achieve improved customer satisfaction & increased value centricity of IT
- Our solution is digitally enabled to realize latent opportunities around automation, proactive issue detection & diagnosis, operational intelligence and knowledge management and drives focus towards more pre-emptive, preventive, and perfective maintenance
- Our factory-based approach institutionalizes the incident management and communication processes to ensure that affected users have a consistent and high-quality experience with AMS services
- We provide committed on-time completion of critical application processes like planning cycle runs, supplier schedule generation, financial month ends, and reporting
- Our solution is a huge evolution of how tickets are traditionally handled. The platform provides a portfolio of tools that apply to the entire lifecycle of an incident, right from issue manifesting itself, from incident avoidance through proactive monitoring and automated pre-emptive steps to resolve issues before the user noticing it. The platform enables a reduction in Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and optimization of Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR)
- Our perfective maintenance approach evaluates and spawns continuous improvement initiatives for better solution stability thereby reducing incident volumes. This helps in providing significant cost reductions year on year and improved user experience
Benefits
- Zero risks accelerated transition enabled by our SmartTools that generate solution baseline on Day 0
- Flexible engagement models tailored to meet your requirements
- Next-generation automation to pre-empt issues and automate resolution
- Real-Time Dashboards designed to report on Leading indicators & proactively alert on delivery risks
- Short runway to stabilize maintenance operations to enable AMS team to focus on value-added and transformative AMS
- Committed year on year OPEX reductions through incident reduction and improved operational efficiency
The Birlasoft Advantage
As an Oracle cloud go-to-partner, Birlasoft’s EBS consultants are positioned to work alongside your company to deliver differentiation using technology. With our deep Oracle expertise, we have created an unenviable record of accomplishment of successfully delivering 12.2 upgrades across the globe. We commit to save up to the 30% of cost in executing your upgrade initiative through the differentiated offerings and innovative solutions.
Partnerships
Birlasoft is a global Oracle Platinum Partner having earned numerous Oracle specializations under different categories, and has been recognized, from time to time, for various reasons such as being a visionary, demonstrating outstanding performance, innovative solutions development based on Oracle products, customer satisfaction, and sales.
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