Zanett Assessments
JD Edwards Assessment Program
Upgrade / Migration Assessment
A fully customized assessment which will aid in crafting a business case to upgrade or migrate your current release of JD Edwards through:
- Evaluation of Key Criteria – Application Functionality, Technological Enhancements, Operational Considerations, Support Availability
- Identification of Business Value – Revenue or Market Share, Profitability and Cash Flow, Asset Management and Control, Operational Core Competency
- Making a Decision
Deliverable: A comprehensive outline of what it will take to upgrade/migrate your current environment and the steps required. The deliverable will contain an Executive Overview, a Functionality Assessment, a Technical Assessment, and an Infrastructure/Hardware assessment. A recommended strategy will be proposed, the impact to the business will be documented, and a proposed timeline and budgetary estimate will be provided.
Applications and Technologies Optimization Assessment
A fully customized assessment which will provide valuable insights as to any existing functional and/or technical inefficiencies within your environment and help you develop a roadmap to maximize the value of your current investments through:
- Increasing operational efficiencies
- Improved supply chain automation
- Improved HR and employee lifecycle management
- Managing primary operating costs
- Improved financial compliance
- Adopting scalable solutions to manage growth
- Improved analytics to further improve strategic analysis & operational execution
- Integration across the Enterprise (Integrate new modules)
- ‘One stack, two stack, Red Stack, Blue Stack’
Deliverable: A future state roadmap consisting of recommendations on system and processes inefficiencies, identification of “quick wins”, and identification of short-term and long-term initiatives. This roadmap will address the overarching objective of ensuring that your IT investments are optimized to their fullest capacity. The roadmap will also provide estimated staffing, time and money requirements for each identified initiative so you can move forward with confidence that you have a concise roadmap and a partner to help you ensure that your Oracle investment is optimized to the fullest extent.
Merger & Acquisition Integration Assessment
Develop an approach for integrating various companies together, both short term and long term, via assessment of the business strategy, assessment of current operations, assessment of current applications, assessment of current infrastructure, and definition of future state and roadmap.
Deliverable: Develop an essential future state application footprint and high level project roadmap of initiatives to move from the current state to the future state, as well as facilitate a 2-hour workshop with the Executive Team and review findings. Roadmap will include an integration approach via:
- People – Staffing Impact/Skills and Capabilities, Change Management, PMO Establishment
- Process – Business Process Review, Operational Alignment (Measurement and SLA’s)
- Technology – Data Center Consolidation, Applications Consolidation, Contract Analysis
- Information – Consolidated Reporting