Ready to SOLO on your 11i Upgrade

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Ready to SOLO on your 11i Upgrade

• By Sanjeev Gupta Ramu Kallepalli
• AST Corporation

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Todays Presentation

• Need for upgrade
• Upgrade v/s Re- Implementation dilemma
• Why should you upgrade yourself?
• Is it possible to do solo upgrade?
• Critical decisions
• Dos and Donts
• Information sources and tools

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Need for upgrade

• Oracle de support
• Business Reorganization
• Change in COA structure
• Consolidation of multiple systems
• Advantages of 11i functionality
• Reduce Administrative Costs

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Upgrade v/s Re-Implementation Dilemma

• Upgrade

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Upgrade v/s Re-Implementation Dilemma

• Re-Implementation

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Why Should you Upgrade Yourself?

• Cost constraints
• Availability of time
• Availability of internal resources
• Knowledge transfer

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Is it possible to do solo upgrade?

• Factors that will help in deciding
• Documentation for existing system
• Planning to upgrade how many modules?
• Customization involved
• Integration with third party software, if any
• Internal resources
• In House expertise

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Critical Decisions

• Pay back period
• Commitment from top management
• Availability of resources and commitment from
  people involved on the project
• Availability of time
• Multi Org
• Conversion of historical data

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Dos and Donts

• Dos
• Upgrade assessment
• Upgrade planning
• Minimize downtime
• Incremental backups
• Minimum recommended services
• Outside DBA services for creation of development
  environment as well as final production
  environment
• Outside Functional services for any design
  discussion
• Extensive testing
• Test on production hardware configuration
• Data cleanup and purging
• Disable user accounts

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Dos and Donts

• Don'ts
• Not to leave any outstanding payment batches in
  payables
• Dont leave any discrete jobs open
• Never leave any transactions in the interface
  tables
• Never leave any transactions un-posted

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Information Sources Tools

• Project budget calculator
• www.projectcalculator.com
• Solo checklist
• www.astcorporation.com
• Oracle support FAQ
• www.astcorporation.com
• Support assistance program
• http//Metalink.oracle.com
• HP free server offer
• http//www.hp.com/solutions1/oracle/ebizupgrade/in
  dex.html
• OAUG members site
• www.oaug.com