Agility by Design – an Oracle E-Business Suite Blog and Technical Tips 

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Years of working as a consultant with marquis customers around the world provided the opportunity to understand what makes companies successful. One of the major drivers of success is the ability for companies to align their data and business processes throughout the enterprise. Another driver of success is the flexibility to change the systems as the business changes through mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, compliance to new statutory and regulatory requirements, and reorganizations.

When a company first implements Oracle E-Business Suite (OEBS), the system can be set up to accommodate diverse business requirements and many different industries. However, because of the hundreds of thousands of relationships among different data elements, once transactions are entered into the system it becomes very difficult to change the underlying infrastructure. It is like changing the foundation of an already-built house. One small change can impact related data everywhere. In the course of implementing OEBS for many organizations, we would find that several years after going live, the business had changed substantially. The complexity of OEBS meant that customers had few options other than re-implementing if they wanted to keep their systems aligned with the business changes. We came up with the mantra of “Finished but not done” to describe the cycle of going live (being “finished”) and then having to go back several years later to re-implement (not done). The founders of eprentise realized that there must be a way to automate changes to OEBS in order to keep it aligned to the business. A series of re-implementations is not only costly, it is unnecessary. eprentise software was architected from the ground up with the purpose of providing enterprise agility to organizations that rely on OEBS for their financials and day-to-day operations. Our business and our passion is to provide OEBS customers the ability to change their systems quickly and easily and without a re-implementation.

Agility by Design is a blog hosted by eprentise for the Oracle E-Business Suite community.  The purpose is to share insight, ideas, and solutions for problems that arise in your EBS environments.