Mamta Gerg
3 min readDec 3, 2014

Key Requirements for a Successful Oracle R12 Upgrade

Each and every organization has its own unique business requirements including the upgrade services.

With Oracle E-business suite, one can choose to upgrade basing on their needs. This is possible with partnership between them and IT convergence to ensure that the Oracle upgrade will be completed both on budget and on time. However, there are different types of upgrades for Oracle R12.1 and 12.2 which includes technical, transformational and hybrid upgrades.

With the technical upgrade, it delivers an operational Oracle R12.1 and R12.2 system which mirrors the transactional processing in the previous versions without transforming the business process. The services include;

· Ability to access the existing 11.0 or 12.0 oracle environment.

· Also the ability to validate the functional qualifications of the environment.

· To verify the complexity and count of the projects by configuring extensions and integration framework.

Transformational upgrade is gearing towards those companies that have a large Oracle footprint and needs to move to Oracle R12.1 and also R12.2. They are the ones which;

· Have significantly grown whether because of acquisitions and mergers or just organically.

· Are using 30 or more modules in the Oracle suite.

· Supports several countries having complex localization requirements for instance Latin America.

· Maintains complex structure of enterprise for instance shared services model.

The hybrid upgrade will now combine the elements of transformational and technical upgrade services in order to give a predictable and rapid upgrade timeline as well as strategic configuration upgrades with latest functionality designs.

The Oracle cloud services will enable different organizations to have a chance of leveraging their investments in order to extend themselves to the cloud with confidence, choice and also greater value. It delivers upgrade of enterprise, middle-ware, hardware technologies and end-to-end cloud services across the broad business applications they deal in. There are latest applications from Oracle that will help one re-imagine his or her business.

An example is the best-of-breed application which is integrated with mobile, social and also analytic capabilities in order to help one deliver his or her experiences according to the customers’ expectations and also their talents to excel in the performance of market demands.

The Oracle upgrade services utilize both standardized tools and best class methodology to ease the upgrade process either in the cloud or on the premise. With the current capabilities of the factory of Oracle Upgrade, the experts will assist one to finish the upgrade faster and with low costs and risks.

Some of the benefits of these upgrade services include improved efficiency of delivery, low costs because of automated processes and accelerated time with fewer risks.