Size does Matter! Say Goodbye to your Sizing Estimation Woes with Package Points
In today's business environment, many organizations are undertaking IT-enabled transformation programs or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations to drive business, increase profitability and enhance operational efficiency. The nature of these programs is such that their success or failure can have a direct impact on the company's financial performance. Often, these programs are built with off-the-shelf application packages and there has been no industry standard to measure the size of these package implementations. Further, in Enterprise Solutions projects, estimating package implementation efforts with reasonable accuracy is crucial as inaccurate estimation results in substantial time and cost escalation.
Estimation for such projects is a major challenge in the absence of a well-established and scientific framework or an industry benchmark. Moreover, due to the inherent nature of work involved in package implementation, universally accepted techniques such as Lines of Code and Function Points cannot be applied to derive an effort estimate.
Infosys' Package Points, a patent-pending solution, is a package implementation sizing methodology that helps enterprises derive consistent and repeatable estimates. Our methodology helps in estimating the size of an implementation project in terms of 'Package Points', based on Solution Size, Tasks and Complexity Factors.
Based on our Package Points methodology, we have designed the Enterprise Solution Package Implementation (ESPI) Sizing Tool. Developed with the Oracle eBusiness suite of products, the Tool makes an implementation predictable, resulting in better effort estimation accuracy. In addition, it improves customer confidence in project estimates.
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Our experts address the challenge of estimating the package implementation size to execute your ERP projects within the budget and deadline. They blog on critical aspects such as the scope, tasks and complexity of the project to define a scientific methodology for consistent implementation.
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