Cloud Implementation Methodology

Our implementation methodology, is based on our team’s experience of hundreds of successful PLM implementations, is minimally invasive and ensures successful organizational acceptance of the solution. The following are the key steps that GoSaaS proposes for this project:

• Pre-Implementation Training: 

  Product training for business process owners are conducted which have been proved to be more productive. As they provide the requirements with a much better input.

• Business Process Workshops & Functional Design: 

  GoSaaS’s Subject Matter Expert (SME) facilitate workshops which are attended by relevant process area owners. The objective of the workshops is to collaboratively determine how the client’s process can be optimized and mapped to the system. After the workshops, GoSaaS’s team documents the functional design of the system and gets it approved by the client.

• Configuration: 

  Based on the approved functional design, GoSaaS configures the system.

• Data Migration: 

  GoSaaS provides a format to the client in which the extracted and cleaned data is provided to GoSaaS to be loaded into Oracle Cloud PLM. GoSaaS recommends that businesses test the process with partial data before doing a complete data load to help in identifying any issues.

• Conference Room Pilot(s) (CRP): 

  GoSaaS provides CRP scripts which focus only on the testing of the processes implemented in the system. At each step, the scripts provide a mechanism to capture feedback. According to the feedback, the process can be repeated.

• User Acceptance Test (UAT): 

  A broader set of users are involved to test the system and provide feedback.

• End-User Training: 

  GoSaaS employs a train-the-trainer approach. The process area owners conduct the training of the broader team based on material provided by GoSaaS for the system modules implemented.

• Go-Live: 

  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 being available to the end-users.

• Post-Go-Live Support: 

  GoSaaS’s implementation team is made available for a limited number of days to assist any requests which may hinder adoption. This type of support can be extended for longer durations or even permanently through a separate maintenance and support contract with GoSaaS.

Communication Process:

• Project kick-off meeting: 

  This is a meeting to introduce the project, timelines and expectations with the broader client team.

• Project Status Updates: 

  GoSaaS updates all team members with a project status update each week and holds weekly or bi-weekly meetings with the project steering committee.