Introduction
Oracle Projects is a complex suite of powerful application modules that offers major business benefits if used correctly. At Projected Consulting we sometimes find that this software does not always realise its full potential.
Ask yourself these questions about your Oracle Projects implementation:
- Are we realising all the business benefits we expected from our implementation of Oracle Projects?
- Is our implementation of Oracle Projects as good as it could be?
- Are we using the most efficient business process for the software?
- Are some of our business processes now out of step with our software?
- Are we using this software as much as we could?
- Do we know how to effectively use what we already have?
- Would an upgrade to a later release help us at all?
- How can we get reliable answers to these questions?
As the only consultancy in Europe specialising in the Oracle Projects Suite, Projected Consulting firmly believe we can help you get clear answers to these questions through our fixed price Projects Health Check service.
Business Benefits
Our health check is carefully focussed on identifying the obstacles that inhibit full realisation of business benefit in an Oracle Projects installation and then setting out a clear road map by which these obstacles may be overcome.
Key Benefits
- Establish if Oracle Projects is under-used in any area and if other Oracle Projects modules would be beneficial
- Identify areas of Oracle Projects that are not fully understood and so impair effective use
- Identify bottlenecks in key business processes as a result of any of these issues
- Assess the impact of new releases of Oracle Projects on the existing implementation
Other Benefits
- Suggest related software that may complement and improve the existing installation and business processes
- Suggest particular areas for additional training
- Configuration changes
- Amendments to business processes
- Use of additional modules
- Additional training
- Use of complementary Oracle or third-party products
- Project Foundation
- Project Costing
- Project Billing
- Project Management
- Project Collaboration
- Project Contracts
- Project Resource Management
- Project Portfolio Analysis
Services Overview
After defining the scope of the Health Check we will provide Project Planning assistance. The Health Check itself consists of these phases:
Implementation Approach
Our Health Check is made up of these short phases:
Orientation: During orientation Projected consultants sit down with you and your staff to get the background to the current installation and the issues and challenges you face. This is essentially a short “scene-setting” exercise and defines your major areas of concern.
Discovery: Our consultants then carry out a functional review of the major business processes and the related Oracle Projects implementation configuration. This discovery phase seeks to identify any additional related issues, “pain points” and bottlenecks. Our team will then seek out the root cause in implementation terms of all issues.
Gap Analysis: We can then compare the existing applications configuration with the desired business processes and identify any gaps between the two. These gaps are the main obstacles to realising the full benefit that could be enjoyed by the use of Oracle
Projects.
Report: In this last phase we produce an outline time-phased road map showing what steps need to be taken to eliminate or significantly close the gaps, highlighting those areas where greatest benefit may be achieved. The steps required may include:
Business Processes and Application Modules
As specialists in Oracle Projects we have the skills to examine in a health check the use of any of the Projects modules listed below:
We will also look at the standard interfaces between any of the Projects modules and other parts of Oracle EBS.
Costs and Implementation Timescales
| Cost: |
£6K |
| Timescales: |
5 days |
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