Upgrading your Oracle ERP system is a significant investment that must deliver value to your business. Often an upgrade is required to allow the business to grow, improve operational efficiency, and to allow your business to take advantage of new developments, but how do you co-ordinate an upgrade so that it doesn't interfere with day to day operations, or become a project that delivers little or no return on investment..

Determining the value of a systems or ERP upgrade can often seem a bit hit and miss, but there is help out there to help you build a business case.

The key drivers behind the decision to upgrade existing ERP systems include

• Vendor support no longer being available
• Additional and improved functionality
• Consolidation of systems, with a view to lowering costs
• Bug fixes or statutory changes. (Sometimes it is just as much work to take a new version of software as to try to selectively patch the old one.)

Regardless of the reasons behind your decision to upgrade, the success of your upgrade will ultimately be determined by the way in which it is managed, and the end cost to your business.

Stages in the upgrade project that need to be considered include;

• Project planning
• Gap analysis
• Business Process Reengineering
• Training
• Mapping
• Configuration, customisations, retirement of existing systems
• Documentation and end user training and acceptance

An Oracle upgrade is not as stressful as you may have been led to believe. This recent survey of CIO's and Enterprise Applications Managers about their upgrades provides a great deal of insight into the impact to their business of the upgrade.
 Upgrades Arent As Stressful As You Might Think

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