OPIM 5894 Advanced Project management
JD Edwards to Oracle ERP Conversion
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Team 3
Richard Buskey
Vijay Gadigeppa
Jonathan Koenig
Daniel Mahzonni
Prashant Mishra
Jonathan Weiss
JD Edwards to Oracle ERP Conversion
Overview of the project
- Conversion from JD Edwards to Oracle
Enterprise system
- Dependent systems: Siebel, Leasing and other
in-house applications
– Customer Master
– Contracts
– Install Base
JD Edwards to Oracle ERP Conversion
Key Issues
• Requirement Specifications
• Business Rules
• Meeting deadline due to expiration of the
Maintenance Contract
JD Edwards to Oracle ERP Conversion
• Requirement Specifications
– Understanding the data structure of the source
(JD Edwards) and target applications (Oracle ERP)
– Project outsourced to the consulting company.
Would work with the in-house SMEs in gathering
the requirements.
JD Edwards to Oracle ERP Conversion
• Business Rules
– Data Transformation rules to map the source data
elements to the target
– Transforming the current business processes to the new
application
• Meeting deadline due to expiration of the
Maintenance Contract
– Deadline for the Oracle support expiration = March 2011
– Would end up paying additional fee in case of system
failures
– Loss of business for the dealer network
– Limited time for detailed impact analysis.
JD Edwards to Oracle ERP Conversion
Heat Map for the Tasks
• Task 1 –
Formatting
Requirements
• Task 2 –
Developing
Business Rules
• Task 3 –
Maintenance
Contract
Expiration
JD Edwards to Oracle ERP Conversion
Cost and Time Reserves
JD Edwards to Oracle ERP Conversion
• Mitigation Strategy
– Increase consulting resources to meet the
deadlines
– Increase in-house SME involvement in the project
– Freeze functional requirements from business to
avoid scope creep
– Increase the server availability at the dependent
applications
JD Edwards to Oracle ERP Conversion
• Implications of delaying the launch
– On time to market issues
• Unsupported platforms
• Business impact to the dealers
– Project cost issues
• Over budget
• Additional resources needed to complete the project
• Opportunity Cost (Add resources from other projects)
• Success of the project: 90%
JD Edwards to Oracle ERP Conversion
Q&A