Oracle PLM Cloud has become the solution for today with its ability to provide a platform to rapidly innovate, develop & commercialize quality products, which are regulated and profitable.
While on-premise Agile PLM allows for product development, processes, and development of product records and more; these are essential features of any PLM. Moving to the Cloud brings you a step ahead in the product conception, with the following advantages:
To make the transition to the cloud easier, GoSaaS has a clear and well-defined process that captures input from within the company to ensure every requirement is fulfilled.
The migration methodology is minimally invasive and ensures successful organizational acceptance of the solution with a step by step defined process. This starts from pre-implementation training and several workshops for key process area owners, after which the migration initiates. Once completed, user testing takes place with Conference Room Pilot(s) (CRP) and User Acceptance Test (UAT).
The process starts with product training for business process owners as they provide the requirements for the migration. The training is conducted in the lab and ensures understanding of super users.
Next, GoSaaS’s Subject Matter Expert (SME) facilitates workshops that are attended by relevant process area owners. The objective of the workshops is to collaboratively determine how the client’s current processes can be optimized and mapped to relevant cloud modules. The workshops are held in a series, each for appropriate business users, covering a specific topic. If the customer is already using a PLM system, the information regarding current configuration and business processes are included in the discussions to identify what is working and what needs to be changed.
After the workshops, GoSaaS’s team documents the migration plan of the system and gets it approved by the client.
The GoSaaS Migrator is deployed on-premise and automates the tedious and expensive process of transferring your information, configurations, or data such as change order details, from legacy systems such as Agile PLM to Oracle PLM Cloud. The GoSaaS Migrator guarantees the utmost accuracy so you can make the right decisions with the right information at all times.
There is no longer a requirement to write a code in Oracle Product Lifecycle Management Cloud for customizations from Agile PLM because those can be mapped to the same functionality using configurations. Agile PLM customizations can be mapped to:
The remaining, around 8%, can be completed using Java Customizations.
The current configurations from the Agile PLM system can be mapped to Oracle PLM Cloud as-is with the help of OIC or GS Integrator.
The GoSaaS Integrator Processes using GS Integrator or OIC include:
Once the system is configured, key process owners who participated in the migration workshops test if the configurations have been done properly. In order to keep this step focused, GoSaaS provides CRP scripts that focus only on the processes being implemented in the system. At each step, the scripts also provide a mechanism to capture feedback. Depending on the feedback from a CRP, this process may be repeated a second time “CRP-2” after making configuration adjustments. The second CRP usually involves more real data available for testing.
After the process owners have validated the system through CRPs, a broader set of users are involved to test the system and provide any feedback that may have been missed.
A complete data extraction, transformation, and loading takes place in this phase. Once the system is ready, it is made available to key process area teams to validate the system before making it available to the end-users.
The project management methodology used to implement the upgrade is a choice between waterfall or Agile methodology but to save time and yield better results mostly Agile is implemented.
With these five steps of the cloud migration strategy, moving to the cloud is simple, seamless, and fast. This means that the user can quickly start to create great business value by designing and producing profitable products efficiently while ensuring team collaboration and product visibility. So, are you ready to make this move to the cloud?
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