ERP Upgrade Management
Most of the organizations go for upgrades voluntarily to benefit from new functionalities or feature enrichment or to support their expansion needs or might be due to mergers and consolidation.
Sometimes rapid technology advancements necessitate the upgrades like changes in hardware and software. There could be scenarios where ERP Vendor might be discontinuing the support for an earlier version and upgrade is required to maintain basic supportability. Compliance and statutory changes, bugs and design weaknesses, new and improved Features could also be some of the valid reasons.
Why Upgrade:
- Architectural Changes
- Functionality Enrichments
- More Security
- Technical Enhancements
- Ongoing Product Support
- Business Reasons like Expansion
- Compliance and Statutory Needs
Upgrading Benefits:
- New Functionalities
- Reduction in Customizations
- Robust and scalable architecture
- Advanced Database Capabilities
- Advanced Integration Capabilities
- Advanced Collaboration Capabilities
- Advanced Administration Capabilities.
- Improved Security
- Reporting and Business Intelligence Capabilities
- Compliance with Regulations
- Reduced Cost of Operations due to Efficiency or Effectiveness
Upgrading Challenges:
- Strategy and timing of ERP Upgrades
- Initial Assessment of Upgrade and Impact Analysis
- Understanding the changes warranted by upgrade
- Understanding Impact on Reporting
- Retrofitting of Customizations
- Justification of changes & their business benefit
- Identification and availability of resources required – Technical & Functional
- Planning & Stakeholder Commitment
- Cost of Upgrades – Hardware, Technology and ERP
- Relevancy of New Functionalities
- Change Management Impact
- Business Process Impact
- User Training Needs & Learning Curve Impact
- Time Required to Implement
- Existing Customizations and Extensions - Impact
- Availability of Technical and Functional Resources
- Availability of Business Users
- Organizational and governance options
- Testing and Training Approach
- Post Upgrade Supports
Upgrade Solutions:
- Overall Program Management
- Upgrade Assessment plan
- Upgrade Process Planning
- Demo – Installation and Functionality Showcase
- Database Upgrades and Administration
- Patching – Analysis and Application
- Data Conversion – if required
- Report Remediation
- Customizations - Assessment, Retrofitting or Re-deployment
- Testing, Validation and Move to Production
- Training and Change Management
- Post-Upgrade Support
Solutions for ERP Professionals:
If you have practical expertise in ERP strategic planning and implementation along with proven ability to lead and manage ERP Implementation teams to deliver within the timelines, and, you are searching for challenging and remunerating assignments to work on ERP Project Management, we are here to assist you. For Upgrade Projects following roles may be available:
- Project Manager
- Project owner
- Functional Consultant
- Technical Consultant
- Solution Architect
- DBA
- IT Developer
Once you Register with us and completing your Online ERP Resume there are sections to provide details about your ERP Project Management Experience in detail. This helps us in short-listing you for Project Management Assignments. Also there is a field to indicate whether you are PMP Certified or not. Please complete these sections by providing details about your ERP Experience and we will be happy to assist you in getting assignments matching your expertise.
There are also opportunities to manage End-to-End delivery of fresh implementations which also includes liaising with client to understand requirements and ultimate delivery of the solution. You need to be an ERP Expert with 5+ years of active ERP Project and Team Management Experience along with leadership skills to be eligible for such assignments. Please ensure that your Online ERP Resume reflects your competencies well so that you may get benefit of being assigned for such assignments.
Register Today if you think you are readily available for these assignments. We follow a strict Service Level Agreements and your performance assessment is purely on the basis of Delivery.
Oracle Rel 12 Upgrade
If you have worked for Release 12 Upgrade for Oracle Applications and you are interested in assignments pertaining to the same, Please fill in this form and our representative will get back to you.
