Strong Focus on Enterprise IT
In many Cases, Oracle EPM and BI implementations are run and controlled by a finance organizations. All too often, the technological and procedural impact to an IT organization is discounted. Considering IT as an afterthought brings many hurdles to project deadlines. Many times, finance organizations receive push-back from IT, as proper considerations for design and maintenance have not been addressed. Often, corporate standards and processes are in place that must be followed for large enterprise corporate systems.
Finance organizations certainly know that inevitably IT must be brought in to address the basic such as operating system, third party software standards, hardware acquisition, data center racking, operating system make ready. However, there are many missing concepts that need to be addressed and are often missed.
IT shops inevitably will ask:
How does this fit into our current corporate standards?
What are the security/encryption requirements?
Can this be integrated into our corporate LDAP for authentication?
How can this be integrated into our helpdesk system?
How can we monitor the health of this system?
How will the application scale?
What are the hardware and storage requirements?
How do machines communicate to each other? What are the dependencies?
What is the service level agreement for availability and performance?
How do we start and stop the system safely?
How do we backup the system for recoverability in a disaster?
Can we get documentation on how to maintain and administer this environment?
What is IT’s role in migration and promotion of objects to production?
360 degrees. Enterprise class best practices: Equal emphasis on functional reporting design + sound technical IT design is the only way to achieve complete 360 degree delivered total performance.
Strategic Planning Equals Smooth Transition
Eric will work with your finance organization in order to understand usage needs and availability requirements, and help translate those into IT deliverables. He will then work extensively with the IT staff to co-design an architecture that meets the needs of the business and adheres to corporate standards. Once installed and configured, Eric will work to ensure the system is integrated into a helpdesk structure and monitored correctly. Finally, he provides knowledge transfer services to IT so they can be self-sufficient and autonomous to maintain, administrator, start/stop, monitor, backup, and troubleshoot the system adequately.