Overview
For over 17 years, SYSTIME has been helping global customers, across industries, successfully address business challenges and upgrade to newer versions of JD Edwards. Our expertise spans almost all versions of JD Edwards WorldSoft and EnterpriseOne product families, making us the partner of choice for JD Edwards consulting, globally. Our proprietary tools and methodologies, refined and matured over years of close engagement with large, global enterprises, ensure that our customers derive the maximum value from their upgrades.
The CTO’s imperatives are far too many and critical when it comes to getting an upgrade done. Every new upgrade brings with it a whole new potential of functionalities and capabilities. In which case, not having a deep understanding of the product could result in under-leveraging the technology.
Plan your upgrade
- Are you trying to determine how to start an upgrade project?
- What approach should you take?
- What are the risk areas associated with the upgrade?
- What are the areas where new functionalities can be utilized?
SYSTIME’s proprietary Upgrade Assessment Pack ensures that enterprises plan adequately and follow a tried, tested, refined and structured approach to upgrading their applications.
Know more about how SYSTIME can help you define your enterprise’s upgrade strategy with the Upgrade Assessment Pack.
Oracle and SYSTIME Webinar: Upgrade Like a Pro!
In order to help with the upgrade analysis process, SYSTIME, the largest JD Edwards practice globally, has put an assessment approach that helps you with a comprehensive cost benefit analysis on different approaches. This webinar will help to understand the future of JD Edwards from Oracle and SYSTIME’s assessment approach, then you can confidently plan your next upgrade.
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Case Study
Maximum business value, minimum interruption to operations
Businesses across industries, across the world, trust SYSTIME with their JD Edwards upgrade initiatives. Read how our experience and expertise has helped enterprises in successfully upgrading to newer versions of JD Edwards, with minimal disruption to operations.
Minimal disruption to ongoing operations while conducting switchover
A leading gas transmission company in US needed an upgrade from their older software version of JD Edwards Xe to JD Edwards Tools Release 8.97® on JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.12® and their unsupported Windows operating system. The challenge was to ensure minimum downtimes. Even a day's delay meant significant financial losses to the company.
With SYSTIME´s comprehensive upgrade methodology, the upgraded systems were up and running in less than 24 hours of go live, with no interruptions. In addition, the company achieved 20% reduction in project costs by using a hybrid resource approach. The end result: a project delivered on-time and under budget. Read more.
Upgrade with the existence of disparate processes and legacy systems
SYSTIME helped a diversifying grower and distributor of fresh vegetables and juices to upgrade their existing 8.0 ERP Suite to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.12®. With a legacy system comprising of eight disparate applications, the challenge was to have a functioning, integrated system running on a single platform.
SYSTIME conducted a thorough assessment with the proprietary Upgrade Assessment Pack (UAP) and implemented a full suite of modules in 270 days. Resulting in a completely integrated environment that could track its products from the farm to the store shelf. The solution also reduced application maintenance costs by over 45%. Read more.
Elimination of customizations by replacing with standard functionality and workarounds
A leader in the greeting cards industry, the customer was using JD Edwards EnterpriseOne XE and wanted to upgrade to EnterpriseOne 8.11(SP1). The biggest challenge was the heavy amount of customization on the older version. Retrofitted objects required fresh impact analysis and execution as there was no previous documentation.
SYSTIME experts eliminated 50% of the customizations by carrying out exhaustive technical analysis. For the remaining 500 objects, 90% were delivered in first attempt with no defects. Rest 10% of objects were delivered, with one additional iteration. Detailed documentation of all objects was done and retrofit work was done offshore resulting in lower costs. The customer had future-ready applications with minimal customizations required for future upgrades.
Testimonial
Abhishek heads the global delivery of the Business Process Management (BPM) - Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) practice at Infosys. He has more than 16 years of experience in the IT industry. He has worked extensively with leading companies in the U.S., Europe and Australia. He has expertise in product development having worked with niche product Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) during the entire lifecycle of product development.
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"SYSTIME is a strategic partner for us, and our efforts to co-develop integrations to Oracle's Agile PLM will give JD Edwards EnterpriseOne customers new tools with which to drive product innovation."
Lenley Hensarling
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"The single largest benefit we had from SYSTIME for the JD Edwards World Upgrade was that they completed the project on time. The second benefit was that our employees continued with their job while we did the upgrade. SYSTIME has saved us considerable amount of money."
Perry Mullinix
Director - IT, Gilead Sciences Inc.
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"If I had to pick one word, SYSTIME is reliability and getting it done. I've been working with JD Edwards for 10 years. When you talk about CNC expertise, which is the first thing SYSTIME brought to the table, it was incredible. There was no one that could have made me more comfortable, considering the endeavor and the timeline. The resources were phenomenal. They were the best. Working with the resources SYSTIME brought to the table, it was clear we were going to select SYSTIME for the upgrade."
Jeff DeSandre
Director - IT, The Paper Magic Group
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Tools & Methodology
SYSTIME’s Upgrade Methodology
SYSTIME's upgrade solutions are based on the proven SYS-on-TIME™ methodology that provides a standard and consistent framework, proven guidelines, templates, and how-to and why-to
documents to de-risk and smoothen enterprise upgrade initiatives.
Challenges
Top Upgrade Challenges
Your upgrade needs the guidance of someone experienced in helping enterprises derive the maximum value from JD Edwards. Our deep and wide experience has helped us delineate a few common challenges that enterprises typically face while going through an upgrade. Our experts assess your enterprise’s specific needs and help you prioritize your upgrade components appropriately.
Limited insight into the potential of upgrade
This is one of the bigger challenges of a typical upgrade. Upgrade planners need to possess a clear understanding of the scope of the current set of applications and how it can change with the new release. Not having this insight could mean missed cutovers and unrealized opportunities to improve the application functionality and benefits.
Solution: As a part of our proprietary SYS-on-Time™ Methodology, we conduct a Project Strategy Workshop wherein detailed planning and scoping is done and a clear upgrade process is defined along with timelines.
High level of customization and lack of documentation
Itemizing existing customizations to the system and determining plans on handling them is a critical task and should be a part of the upgrade planning process. In addition, the lack of proper documentation often proves to be a major hindrance.
Solution: Our experienced consultants help enterprises determine which customizations to retire, which to keep, which to update, and which to replace with new functionalities. Intensive retrofit analysis has helped our customers in reducing customizations, making their applications future-ready. As a part of our assessment process, our consultants deep dive into your system and create the necessary documentation, and ultimately eliminate customizations by replacing them with standard functionalities and workarounds.
Limited understanding of functionalities, tools and technologies
Lack of experience, combined with a lack of real information upgrade is the undoing of any upgrade plan. Here are some essentials that go into planning for a successful upgrade:
- Information on what new functionality you will implement in the next release
- Knowing which customizations you will be able to retire and which ones you will be forced to retain
- Understanding how the new application will change your core business processes
- Knowing what new technology will you need to implement to make the upgrade a success
- Identifying what upgrade tools you will need to learn to successfully upgrade
- A complete understanding of the upgrade process.
Solution: SYSTIME’s proprietary Upgrade Assessment Pack (UAP) has been designed based on our vast experience in JD Edwards consulting. UAP arms you with critical information and an accurate assessment of your need to upgrade. In addition, it delineates a roadmap for the upgrade comprising timelines along with procedures that must be followed before an upgrade. UAP significantly increases the success rate of a project and ensures faster ROI.
Finding the right resources to staff the upgrade
Perhaps the most critical challenge while going through a JD Edwards upgrade. Our experience tells us that the kind of people you choose to staff your upgrade initiative with have a direct impact on all the outcomes of your investment.
Solution: SYSTIME’s highly-experienced technical and functional consultants continuously upgrade their skills and ensure that your enterprise derives maximum value from the upgrade.
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