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February 10, 2011

Who holds the key to success in ERP led business transformation programs

Many analysis has been done and many artifacts written about the success of the ERP projects but the question which primarily remains unanswered and less explored is who holds the key to success of the program.

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November 8, 2010

Looking for the most cost-effective and complete content management platform? Use Oracle Content Management

In today's scenario, organizations are facing many problems in managing content with nearly 80% of the unstructured information, lots of content duplication and spending around 15-20% of the operating revenue in fixing problems that arouse from inappropriate data.

To maximize content management efficiency, improve security and reduce costs, organizations need a comprehensive enterprise content management solution that fits easily with their business processes. Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite 11g meets these demands delivering the high performance and scalability required to face the challenging enterprise content management environments.

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October 11, 2010

Need to change your policies and intimate your customers instantly? Use Oracle Policy Automation!!!

Policies keep changing at turbulent pace in most public and private sector organizations. In such a case, it becomes very important to continuously update policies, in particular those impacting decision making and funds disbursement in order to avoid the risk and cost of non compliance.

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September 15, 2010

Is IT an 'enabler' or 'creator' of Business Value?

Recently I attended a debate on 'Is IT an enabler or creator of Business Value'.  I went in to the hall with a mindset that IT is enabler for Business value, the reason may be my background on working in a construction industry where one of the main reasons to use IT is to track material availability or to get a top management view of the happenings in a project from head office located across the globe or to get a MIS reports within seconds on any areas of review.

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May 22, 2010

Go Lean: Minimize customizations and reduce overall TCO in Oracle ERP implementation (Part 3)

There are many ways to achieve Leaner ERP implementation, and I have discussed some of the strategic levers for it in my previous blogs Go Lean (Part 2) and Go Lean (Part 1) like senior management and executive sponsorship, robust decision making framework, effective change management approach, upfront planning for middleware and reporting platforms, solution design workshops, selection of appropriate edge products and leveraging localizations. However, there are many tactical and operational levers also available for enterprises to adopt, which are primarily part of implementation execution cycle. I am discussing here some of these levers and best practices to minimize customizations:

  • Boot Camp Trainings - Before initiating the solution design phase, organizations must seriously consider to conduct the boot camp trainings on chosen ERP to their key super users, business analysts and implementation core team, facilitated by System Integrator (SI). The intent for boot camps must be training to the team for vanilla features and functionalities of ERP relevant to their industry processes. This will enable them to bridge many gaps and requirements through seeded ERP functionality, and increase the overall fitment of the package application, leading towards reduced customizations.

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