Transform Your Business Applications with an Oracle E-Business Suite Upgrade

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1 Transform Your Business Applications with an Oracle E-Business Suite Upgrade The Smoothest EBS Upgrade in history of Byer California - Byer California Executives

2 Introduction

3 Speakers Mandar Ghosalkar (IT Director) Sunny Todkari (Solution Architect) Started Oracle journey with Oracle Version 6 Oracle Certified SME with 11+ years experience 3 Major Digital Transformations in 15 years from EBS 10.7 to Paper Presentations in Oracle conferences (Oracle Open World, Collaborate, Reginal OAUG Conferences) B2B/B2C, DevOps, Infrastructure, Operations, Digital BI Strategy Worked on End to End Implementations and Upgrades for Oracle Cloud and EBS

4 Byer California Founded in 1964 and Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Los Angeles, New York and Hong Kong In 2016 Byer California was ranked #3 in retail sales generated by Branded Product in Department Stores and National Chain Stores Major Source of Junior, Misses and Girls fashions for National and Regional Department Stores, Specialty Stores and Online Retailers

5 Jade Global

6 Jade Oracle Services Oracle ERP, HCM, SCM, PLM, PPM Cloud Implementation Cloud 360 Assessment Oracle EPM Cloud Implementation Cloud Services Business Enablement & Training Global Rollouts and Shared Services Implementation B2B/A2A Integrations Managed Services BI Services Application Development Services Common Services (Cloud & On Prem) EBS Health check EBS Implementation EBS Upgrades Hyperion Implementation WMS Implementation On Prem Services Industry Solutions Jade Accelerator Solution Oracle CEI Partner Oracle Certified Accelerator

7 Byer s History with Oracle Early 1980 (Oracle SQL*Calc a spreadsheet based on SQL used at Byer California) 2001 (Upgrade from Oracle Financials 10.7 to ) 2017 (Migrated from to R12.2.6) Late 1980 (Beta Customer for Oracle General Ledger) 2007 (Migrated Home Grown Forms 3.0 Based Apps to )

8 The Journey

9 Upgrade Drivers Use of R Functional and Technical Features Sustainable Enterprise Application Platform for Future Investments Infrastructure Migration to Public Cloud Opportunity for Process Redesigning Reduce Overall Support and Operational Cost Keep Business Running with Minimum IT Hiccups

10 Key Concerns During Feasibility Phase How to sell to various stakeholders? Identify current pain points Prepare business worst case scenarios What-If scenario analysis Upgrade Partner Selection Past Experiences Are they Hungry for My Business Cultural Fit Proven Framework to Retrofit the Customizations Customizations + 3rd Party Integrations Partner s Retrofit Strategy Partner s Past Experiences Testing, Testing and Testing Upgrade Tool

11 Key Concerns During Project Planning with Jade Who? How? When? Where? Key Project Team members Key Business users Past experiences Technical or Functional Upgrade Retail calendar Weekend Window Team Member Vacations On-Premise or Cloud Performance

12 Key Concerns During The Project Training & Testing Cutover Impacted Customizations How to Adapt to New R12 Processes Training Sessions User Guides Train the Trainer Customization Testing 3 Phases of Testing Automate the Tasks Complete the Tasks before Cutover Mock Upgrades (24*7) Rollback Plan Negotiating Cutover Window Form: 169 PL SQL:521 Views: 176 OAF: 177 XML Reports: 112 OBIEE, QlikView Delphi, VBScripts Total Custom Objects: 9129

13 Propero Comes to the Rescue Comprehensive Tool for EBS Upgrade Efficient to use in Proposal, Planning, Retrofit and Testing Phases PROPERO Upgrades takes much less time and money as compared to traditional approach

14 Propero Comes to Rescue Code Extractor Impact Analyzer Impact Drilldown Repository Automation Toolkit Propero

15 Journey Discovery Phase Kickoff Apr 2017 Analysis & Design Functional Design of Mandatory Changes Upgrade CRP0 Jun 2017 Code Retrofitting Functional Testing Data Cleanup DBA Activities Cutover CRP1 Jul 2017 UAT Aug 2017 Mock Upgrade End of Aug 2017 Sanity Testing Go-Live &Support Sep 2017 Upgrade Code migration Data Reconciliation User Training Testing & Testing Upgrade Code migration Data Reconciliation Testing & Testing & Testing

16 Lessons Learned Freeze Process/Code Changes Source Code Control Wholistic Performance Tuning Multiple Test Upgrades Clean/Archive/Purge before Upgrade Read Oracle Documentation

17 Take A Pic! Release Content Documents (Doc ID ) Module Specific Release Notes (Doc IDs , , , , ) Oracle E-Business Suite Upgrade Center - Home (Doc ID ) EBS Data Model Comparison Report Overview (Doc ID ) Developing and Deploying Customizations in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 (Doc ID ) Search for R12 How To documents Search for R12 Master GDF Diagnostic How To Upgrade 11i Custom Forms To R12 (Doc ID ) Upgrade Considerations by Product (FINANCIALS) (Doc ID ) Oracle E-Business Suite R12.1 Financials Pre-Upgrade, Setup, and Operational Tips (Doc ID )

18 Project Management Tools Smartsheet Azure Devops SharePoint Snagit Zoom Meeting

19 End State for Customer

20 Now What. Reduced Risks Reduced Opex Business Innovations Scalable Sustainable EBS R12.2 Supportable

21 Thank You Q&A