Why Oracle EBS Projects Fail? and How to Fix Them - Part II

4. The Right Resources Aren’t Assigned or Available

It’s difficult to participate in a project and also do your regular job. It sometimes seems that a few people in the organization are asked to do everything. Be realistic when assigning people to different project responsibilities and allocating their time, and recognize when external skills would be more efficient even though the cost might be higher. For example, hiring resources for the upgrade to R12 may seem more expensive than having your DBA try to do it internally, but consultants who perform upgrades day-after-day develop a variety of “lessons-learned” and ways to streamline the process. Additionally, it does not make sense to have your internal DBA spend months on learning to do something that he or she will never need to do again. The time could be better spent on other projects.

Why Oracle EBS Projects Fail? and How to Fix Them - Part I

The start of a new year is often a good time to reassess the status of your Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) environment, and how effective its current structure is to your company. As a mission-critical system, considerable time and attention should be devoted to maintaining, improving, and optimizing EBS. While most tasks are relatively routine in nature, sometimes — either due to organizational changes, updates in management and regulatory reporting requirements, or the need to upgrade — a change is needed in your EBS system that requires the initiation of a more complex project.

Even with the best of intentions, planning, and hard work, complex EBS projects can fail for a variety of reasons. Whether you’re planning for an R12 upgrade, completing a post-M&A consolidation, implementing OBIEE or Hyperion, or simplifying your EBS footprint (or more), reviewing and recognizing common Oracle project management failures and their respective best solutions can ensure that your projects succeed in 2016 and beyond.

Here are some specific and common reasons why Oracle projects fail, including advice on how to prevent them in advance.

Top 5 Mistakes while implementing ERP

The promises of an integrated ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solution can inspire any business owner to approve a costly, time-consuming planning and execution process.  However, not all ERP implementations are successful; many end in frustration, failure and wasted resources. To prevent a disaster with your implementation, arm yourself with the right resources to avoid failure, including this article from Software ThinkTank (thinktank.net).

Thinking through the Top 5 Mistakes made when implementing an ERP system, we can identify the common problem areas most customers face and take the proper steps to avoid them.