Approach
The BizTech Implementation Approach: Rapid App
Implementation costs make up a large proportion of a solution’s total cost of ownership and, without careful management, many things can go wrong in the first, critical stages. Our methodology helps to ensure predictable results, less expense, and a faster return on your investment—not just once, but throughout the entire life cycle of the solution.
As part of our methodology, BizTech utilizes the Oracle Business Accelerator tools to ensure a comprehensive, flexible and affordable implementation. As one of three Oracle Accelerate partners nationwide, BizTech works closely with their customers to identify key business flows that can quickly be analyzed, documented and deployed to create a working Oracle instance in days to weeks rather than months. Each business flow provided within Oracle Accelerate is based on industry proven business processes that leverages many years of experience and development. Some of the key benefits to the Oracle Accelerate program are as follows:
- A pre-integrated application suite - tailored for your industry, with the specific functionality you require.
- Embedded database and middleware technology - simplify setup with a complete solution that includes all the technology you need.
- Award-winning support - from the only software support organization that has won a customer service award from J.D. Power and Associates.
- Unlimited potential - the flexibility to grow your business on the same platform for years to come.
The BizTech RapidApp Methodology is the foundation for all Oracle implementation, optimization and upgrade services provided by BizTech. Each step defines scope, predictable results, and clear deliverables, regardless of your industry or the applications you select.
RapidApp comprises four phases—Prepare, Configure, Test and Deploy. The early phases help you identify, quantify, and build an effective project plan. The later phases put your plan into action.
Phase 1: Prepare
In the prepare phase, our objective is to build your project mission and definition. We will build a roadmap and framework for the entire project. We define the scope and terms; identify people and resources, milestones and targets. We work with your project team to establish and communicate expectations for the project and perform baseline Oracle training. All implementation strategies are explored and decided upon during this phase. Requirements will be confirmed and documented. We will establish the base line technical infrastructure that will be necessary to complete the project. All of these elements are the basis for developing your project plan.
At the end of the prepare phase, the deliverables include:
- A quality plan is developed for all phases and deliverables.
- A gap analysis document describing business processes that cannot be accommodated with the non-customized Oracle application functionality.
- The infrastructure necessary to prototype and test the solution will be established, including hardware, software and networking architecture.
- The project team members with roles and responsibilities will be identified.
- Functional and technical training of the project team will begin during this phase.
Phase 2: Configure
In the Configure phase, you’ll establish the boundaries of your project. From the information gathering activities conducted during the prepare phase, we’ll identify, analyze, and prioritize any affected business processes, and we’ll show you how the solution will impact your business processes, enabling you to make decisions for gap solutions if necessary. Conference Room Pilot sessions (CRP) will also take place during this phase.
At the conclusion of the configure phase, you will have:
- A Design specification document outlining the prototype solution to be developed, including any interfaces to be developed and any data migration that needs to take place.
- Application Setup Documents (ASD).
Phase 3: Test
You’re going live soon, and we’re helping you prepare. We’re with you to update and configure the final system configuration. At this point, the historical and current data will be loaded or entered into the production system. We’ll help you conduct system testing to verify that all data is converted and to ensure a smooth transition into production. We’ll also help you determine a training approach for your end users, design training material and a training environment, and conduct the training, if requested. Otherwise, a train-the-trainer approach is assumed.
When we’re finished, you’ll have:
- A fully tested, production ready system.
- A complete end user training approach ready for rollout.
Phase 4: Deploy
Your Oracle solution is live. As you make the transition, we can remain with you in a support role, helping to troubleshoot, teaching you how to maximize the value of your new system, and identifying any new opportunities to continue with the transformation to an e-business company.
At the end of this phase, you will have:
- Stopped doing your business processes in your legacy system.
- Moved all project support activities to your production support team.
- Trained your end users.
CELEBRATE YOUR SUCCESS!
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