R12.1 Functional Upgrade Assessment

We work with you to determine if R12 is right for you. We’re skilled in reviewing your business processes to spot opportunities for streamlining work, tightening controls and adding efficiencies that save time and money. Our expert assessment allows you to determine how well the next release will meet your needs and to estimate your upgrade costs. For a fee, TruTek’s Upgrade Assessment gives you confidence that investing in R12 will bring real benefits.

The R12 Functional Upgrade Assessment Phases Include: Audit, Report, Manage

Audit

Understand the System Architecture

Modules in use

Modules to be implemented

Identify business issues

Issues must be clearly defined and measurable

Set performance targets

Prioritize business issues

Identify the gaps between the current release and the new R12.1 release to determine functional, platform, network and operating system gaps. Functional experts are required to map custom processes from 11i to R12.1. Because of new functionality in R12, existing custom processes may be replaced by new functionality in R12.1.

Assess the database, reporting and interface transition issues

Evaluate management controls required: timing, resources and training issues

Recommend an approach (Upgrade vs. Re-Implementation)

Manage

Functional Application Tuning

System setup affects performance

Improve Functional Processes

Review User Defined Functions

Review Fast Formulas

Report

Document all issues and solutions

Summarize Performance Gains for C level executives

Get Answers

Our functional consultants combine best practices learned at other organizations and Release 12.1 new features knowledge with what they learn about your organization’s unique business processes, to help determine:

Where do our current processes run into issues?
Would R12.1 address them?
Are you getting the reports needed from the system?
Would R12.1 make a difference?
Do you have any control weaknesses?
Would R12.1 resolve them?
Would you realize enough business benefits from the upgrade to upgrade now?

Functional Area Best Practices

For each Oracle module you license, we interview key personnel involved in the corresponding business processes. By systematically walking through models of best practices in each functional area, we learn how your own practices conform to, or deviate from, the model. We understand why you do things a certain way and why you experience problems…always on the lookout for potential bottlenecks, control risks and possible improvements.

Then we prepare recommendations on how you might make the most of Oracle technology and tell you whether upgrading to R12.1 is likely to bring sufficient business benefits. Our final report includes: