Our Services
Why it is a good idea to have us at your side?
- As we walk with you in your EPM journey, we share our expertise and ideas to get critical components right the first time itself to make the journey joyful and reach destination on time.
- We help you stay focused, kick start and keep moving at the right pace from day one. We provide you value compass and yardsticks to run, measure and our team brings in infectious energy complete EPM journeys successfully.
- Because we’ve been where you are, we feel pain points, severity of your pains, effectiveness of your plans, actions in your overall scheme of EPM journey.
- With our deep cross functional and sectoral expertise, technology levers and limitations, we help you get a clear view of the road ahead by asking right questions and challenging you to think beyond the obvious or the expected.
- Not succumbing to the trap of “the best practices”, we help to get the right fit solutions specific to your company and industry.
- We help you make right choices amidst plethora of choices faced across full life cycle – from concept through design, architecture, implementation, support and transition to operations.
- We make sure the solutions are aligned and balanced with your operational & strategic intents and demands
Your EPM Journey & Our Expertise
EPM Journey does not start and end with EPM. It goes beyond above applications and it demands for through understanding of existing operational systems, high level policy on meta data decisions across applications (including those of merged entities), reporting needs as per local GAAP/IFRS, operating models, business drivers, seasonality, taxation and integration between on-premise, cloud and hybrid systems. This is precisely the challenges our consultants are well equipped to handle with their expertise/experience and deliver successfully EPM program/projects and planned business benefits.
We have extensive experience leveraging Oracle EPM suite of applications to deliver solutions in the following functional areas.
Typical questions clients ask us –
- Is there something we need to have in place before we can start implementation?
- Is there a way we can conserve the hours we spend with FirstRight team during implementation?
- Time to Go Live – > Smooth Operations?
Implementation Services in a snap shot
Functional Requirements
- Familiarization Demos
- Requirements workshops
- Timing on
- when to stop further requirements
Solution Build
- Detailed Design
- Configuration
- Integrations
Solution Acceptance
- Sprints
- Testing
- Fine Tuning
Go Live & Operations
- Dress Rehearsal
- Cut Over
- Hypercare
- Enhancements
Typical questions clients ask us –
- How to define the goals of EPM initiatives and what measures to use to track progress?
- What kind of license is suitable for now and later years?
- Is it free from risk when we go for a big bang implementation approach?
- Do we get timely benefits and alignment when we go with waterfall, parallel or spiral methodologies?
- How do we spring board and validate our internal ideas ?
Advisory Services in a snap shot
Business Case
- Business Case, payback period and ROI
- Non-financial objectives
- License cost optimization
- Systems maturity and stakeholders’ readiness check
Blueprinting
- Finance Process specific blue printing
- “As-Is” and “To-Be”
- Gap Analysis
- Benchmarking
- Program or project scoping
- Phase gateways and value tracking
Health Check
- Identify opportunities to unclutter and simplify operating models, current systems, tools, processes and data quality and compelling business case for upgrade or new ones.
- Organic and M&A growth lead to multiple, disparate operational ERP and EPM systems. Assess need for creating single source of unified master data management.
- ” What on-premise applications can we migrate to EPM Standard EPM Enterprise Cloud Service? “
- “What is the correct solution for my environment?”
- “How do I move data, metadata, and configuration with minimum risk?”
Upgrade Services in a snap shot
Upgrading On prem applications to cloud services require deep understanding of both on premise and cloud services architecture, framework and technical components.
Getting upgrade tasks in right sequence is important to move incrementally and faster in upgrade path.
Then comes assurance on data quality, business logic and comprehensive migration of technical artifacts and tools-based operations.
Many a times question from clients “Are upgrades as complex and time consuming as fresh implementations?” sums up complexity and expertise needed in planning and execution of upgrade projects.
- What is the way out to manage applications smoothly as hiring FTE on EPM is expensive/unmanageable?
- How to free up multiple process owners’ time in monitoring an controlling multiple finance processes – consolidation, planning, budgeting, reconciliations, GAAP/IFRS/Tax reporting, profitability and cost control?
- How to upgrade skill levels of users on one or more EPM applications?
Application Maintenance
- On going support till client teams get up to the speed
- Quick resolution of configuration issues and customization issues.
- Resolving data integrations and building new integrations.
- Managing meta data
- Process assurances as per SLAs– data interfaces, users actions, scheduled activities, data security audits, period opening, closing and locking
Enhancements
- Developing new features
- Application re-architecting
- Fine tuning complex business logics requiring extensive coding
- Large scale User interface and Reports developments
User Engagement
- We offer business and technology focused documentation for functional /technical teams including FAQ
- We assist the users to develop ways and means of keeping an eye on data quality and make it actionable.
- Go Live and Hypercare coaching
