ABSOLUTE EPM
Ensure Client Success with Partner Services
We work with other Oracle partners and SI’s to provide expert advice and ensure success for the client. We can support your teams if you have a particularly challenging implementation, or want to ensure your project goes smoothly from the start.
How we can help
Absolute EPM has over 40 years+ experience implementing EPM solutions at FTSE 100 clients and government.
We can provide expert EPM Planning guidance, to assist clients or Oracle partners in the following areas:
Implementation Support and Recovery
Our team of experts can often recover a sub-optimal implementation quickly, restoring client confidence in the software and getting them back on the road to success.
Solution Architecture and Quality Assurance
We can support consulting teams with solution architecture, or Q&A design guidance, to ensure the implementation is delivered successfully the first time.
How it works
One of experts will assess the challenges at the client, no financial commitment.
We will recommend a roadmap for success, whether that be remedial actions for a stubborn problem / failed implementation or appropriate expert guidance for
the existing team.
SERVICE
Implementation Support and Recovery
Our experts can often recover a sub-optimal implementation quickly, restoring client confidence in the software and getting them back on the road to success. Some common issues and questions that arise from clients are:
Performance / Capability Optimisation – “is this the correct software for our needs?”
- Poor system performance
- Lack of capability relative to initial use case
Business Process – “This is more complicated to manage than I expected”
- Solution implemented is complicated to manage on a month end / year end basis
- Data Integrations to other dependant business systems are complex and prone to failure
- Solution is hard to sustain, cost to client of continually fixing / maintaining the solution as is
Roadmap – “I thought this solution would have more impact on my business”
- Missed opportunities to develop long term roadmap for clients with a view to new functionality / tools in the pipeline
- Client looks at alternative options for e.g. Reporting, Dashboarding, Commentaries
We have an established track record of supporting and recovering challenging implementations with large SI’s, Oracle and direct clients over the years.
- Partnered with big 4 accountancy firm on global implementation projects. Re-work of workforce planning implementation by a SI
- Requested by Oracle to review SI global implementation and be design QA
- Large SI design review, subsequently leading to us delivering the project
- Recovered an implementation by a large partner for an allocations application which wasn’t performing
- Rebuilt reporting application from unskilled overseas SI in two days when client was questioning abandoning the software after implementation had taken months and it wasn’t performing.
- Used by OCS as experts to help deliver model office
- Saved failing project using modules by partner with low knowledge
Example Implementation Recovery Case Study:
Avis Budget Group
- PBCS model implemented by a platinum partner was not performing
- Oracle S.E.A.L team had been engaged to review and change code but the model was still too slow to be practical
- Absolute EPM reduced calculation times by 99.7%. Restoring the client’s confidence in the software.
SERVICE
Solution Architecture and Quality Assurance
We can support consulting teams with solution architecture, or Quality Assurance design guidance, to ensure the implementation is delivered successfully the first time.
- Business Requirements - Support with identification, ratification and articulation
- Infrastructure recommendations - On Premise v Cloud (IaaS v PaaS v SaaS)
- Software configuration Choice - Module v Module+ v Customisation
- Data Integration guidance - To third party systems and Other Oracle assets
- Quality Assurance
Beyond this we can also support
- Finance Process transformation
- Supporting clients considering an Oracle EPM implementation
- Corporate Reporting Model definition
- Metadata management approaches
- Governance and Best Practice
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- Financial Strategy
- Modelling client's strategic objectives e.g. Acquisitions and Divestitures