eprentise and Information Technology

Your team implemented E-Business Suite (EBS) five to fifteen years ago. At the time, it was state-of-the-art and you spent a lot of time understanding how the business was going to use the software. The EBS implementation, the license, and the support fees were very expensive. You had read about many botched ERP implementations, and you were sure that your implementation was going to be different and support the business for a long time to come because you spent a lot of time understanding requirements, planning, and executing 2 or more conference room pilots. You were busy retiring the legacy systems and preparing for the future. The only thing that you weren’t prepared for was that the business would change over time, and as flexible as EBS was in the beginning, once you were live you would lose that flexibility and it would be difficult to change the underlying configurations. Now the business is asking you to change the chart of accounts, the calendar, or the way the org structures were set up. The original configuration accommodated different operations for different lines of business or locations. There really was no need to standardize or to have a consolidated environment (and the infrastructure didn’t support it anyway).

All that has changed now. You can’t keep up with the changes. Your team doesn’t want to spend its time coding and doing translations between old and new and developing a lot of custom reports to get the data that the business needs. Having multiple instances is very expensive – for each production instance you have one or more development instances, one or more test instances, a back-up instance, and a training instance. That means you are maintaining at least 5 environments for each production instance. All of your resources are spent in maintenance mode – applying patches, improving performance, writing interfaces, and supporting users, all of whom are operating in a different environment. You’ve lost control of all of the spreadsheets and stand-alone applications that are required for business users to get the data they need. It stopped being fun a long time ago, and now you have been told that once again, you need to reduce your costs. You’d like to standardize the system, standardize the configurations, and work in an innovative environment.

The business users have requested that you make changes to the EBS instance, or you are ready to upgrade to R12 and understand that changes will need to be made to take advantage of R12 functionality. You’ve researched it thoroughly on Metalink and concluded that you may be facing a reimplementation. You are dreading going back to your users to ask them for a huge budget increase and to tell them that it can be a year or more until the change is made.

There’s good news – you don’t have to. eprentise software was designed to enable you to automate these changes and get these results you need quickly. If your IT department is stuck in one of these no-win battles with a business that needs to change EBS configuration setups like charts of accounts, calendars, operating units, legal entities, or even consolidate entire instances, eprentise software is the tool that can align IT with the business and align the business with constantly changing business processes – within budget and on time. If you are running E-Business Suite and you've got an IT problem, take the time to glance at the various problems our software solves. It's likely you'll find a fit for your organization, and the business will love you for it.

eprentise software helps you give the business the results it needs and lets you focus on adding value. There is robust exception handling and a full audit trail so that your organization can comply with statutory and regulatory requirements. And you don’t have to write any code.

Using eprentise software tools will bring your project in under budget, you’ll get the job done quickly, and you’ll have time to spend on more interesting things that provide more value. You'll be using state-of-the-art technology – the only commercial software that is risk-free and adapts to any environment without any coding – to make changes to your existing EBS and to get the results you need (and look like a hero or heroine). When you are done, all the data integrity is maintained. That’s right – the software knows everything that needs to be changed, and makes most changes without any manual intervention – that’s our secret sauce. Your E-Business Suite operates as though the changes were in place from the time EBS was originally implemented. You will be able to meet the needs of the business without adding a lot of cost. It's a win-win situation for both the business and IT.