Oracle Upgrade solution
To align your HR strategy with the changing market conditions, you need to invest in robust IT applications and processes. Also, as the scope of the HR function increases with business growth, you must upgrade your IT applications to ensure that scalability and innovation aid HR strategy implementation. It ensures that the upgrade process retains the competitive edge in the future while leveraging the new features and capabilities of the new system.
Before embarking on the Oracle applications upgrade journey, it is important that your enterprise has answers to the following questions:
- What business needs led your organization to consider an upgrade?
- Have you assessed the impact of upgrading your Oracle applications on your business processes and business users?
- Can existing Oracle customizations and enhancements be reduced using new features/functionalities?
- Will your upgrade approach lead to improved business processes, while lowering the operational cost?
Upgrade Methodology
Infosys' Oracle upgrade methodology leverages the Global Delivery Model (GDM) to ensure faster go-live and quicker recovery of investments on Oracle upgrade projects. A phased approach, comprising multiple upgrade passes helps de-risk the various challenges while detailed cutover planning, prior to upgrade, ensures minimal business disruption.
Our Oracle upgrade solution is aimed at redefining and streamlining mission-critical business processes. Our offerings are flexible to accommodate different business needs of various enterprises. The 'Vital upgrade' offering addresses an enterprise's need to upgrade to 11i touching only the most important customizations. The 'Desirable upgrade' offering encompasses all the associated benefits of an upgrade, where an enterprise would have the benefit of implementing new functionalities/modules along with the upgrade. The 'Essential upgrade' offering is an intermediate solution that enables an enterprise to reduce customizations, through an increase in usage of newer tools/functionalities in the latest release.
Upgrade Solution Offerings
Accelerator Tools
11i Upgrade Toolkit
Our toolkit gives an automatic listing of extensions and set-ups, and generates an impact analysis report of extensions and complexity that helps in effort estimation. The toolkit enables auto upgrade of extensions to the target version and an automatic commenting of code. It also performs automatic upgrade of customizations and pinpoints all manual efforts with details of changes required. It ensures a consistent and quality upgrade with significant reduction in effort, time and related costs in the assessment phase of the upgrade.
Web-based Collaborative Project Management Dashboard
Our tool facilitates knowledge consolidation and dissemination during various stages of an upgrade, which provides a dashboard for tracking customization conversions indicating various workflow stages. It is also an online repository of problems encountered during an upgrade and their solutions, which can be shared by the entire project team for faster issue resolution.
Migration Assessment Questionnaires
Infosys has developed unique, innovative and structured questionnaires which help in reducing time and effort during the assessment phase.