Best upgrade practices for adopting Oracle E-Business suite

INTRODUCTION

This blog describes major upgrade areas to consider in determining whether an upgrade is appropriate for your Organization. It also offers practical advice from Oracle support, consulting and development Organization on how to do a R12 upgrade. This blog tells you “things you need to do” before and after R12 upgrade project.

Why Upgrade?

There are many compelling reasons for upgrading yourEBS version such as:

• Unlocking new mature functionalities to keep your organization well positioned to meet business objectives.
• Staying current with the highest and latest levels of the product support. The extended support to R11.5.10.2 is ending on December, 2014.
• Upgrade allows you to see best performance and usage of enhanced features like functional capabilities, technical infrastructure etc. which enables you to increase application’s efficiency for your business.

[Refer Oracle Applications Documentation Resources Release 12 Note 394692.1] For more detailed information of finance and procurement upgrade impacts, see Oracle Financials and Oracle Procurement Functional Upgrade Guide: Release 11i to Release 12.

The Upgrade phases

An upgrade is similar to implementation; however upgrade can be more efficient than implementation as it leverages earlier implementation efforts and business processes. Also, upgrade can be executed within existing change management system by your organization.

Below graphic presents the standard upgrade phases at a high level:

Upgrade – Best Practices

This section describes Oracle R12 best practices for pre and post upgrade and testing activities.