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Best Practices for PSFT Upgrade Leveraging on Managed Cloud Services

Rony Schwarz Solution Manager Oracle Managed Cloud Services June 23, 2015

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Managed Cloud Services - Overview

Why Upgrade?

Best Practices to an Upgrade Project

Methodology, Tools and Resources

Summary

References

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Oracle Cloud

Consume Oracle as subscription-based services

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Private Cloud

Build and manage your own cloud using Oracle cloud products

Oracle Managed Cloud Solutions OMCS protects your existing investments in Oracle applications

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Applications to Disk – Singular Focus on Oracle “Red” Stack

Cloud Automation: Oracle Advantage

vs.

• Accelerated upgrades

• Certified configurations optimized across stack

• Advanced SIEM with predictive incident management

• Go-Live Center reduces post-go-live issues 54%


A completely transformed capability within Oracle Cloud Solutions

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Why Upgrade?



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Why Upgrade?

• Provides access to new functionality and software applications that can help keep your organization well positioned to meet your business objectives

• Leverage new and advanced functionality “out-of-the-box” solution with lower maintenance

• Facilitates regulatory compliance at a lower cost through retiring customizations

• Be able to implement new modules to manage additional business processes

• Allows you to leverage the latest usability enhancements

• Protect your initial investment

• Avoid risks related to the end of support on older versions

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Typical Upgrade Business Drivers


Why Upgrade? Moving to PeopleSoft 9.2

Free PeopleSoft from cost of customizations

Gain Access to Continuous Innovation

Easily Deploy New Features


Why Upgrade? Removing Customizations

Vanilla HCM

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Extent of Customization

Base HCM product as delivered.

•Deep functionality. •Lowest Cost of Ownership.

Standard product plus extended

capabilities

Typical customized solution

Customizations: • Increase maintenance costs • Previous upgrades have been treated as

“Technical” upgrades that do not take full advantage of new features or opportunities customization reduction

• Make it difficult to take new releases

Oracle Combined Approach Will: • Reverse the trend to customize • Rationalize functionality • Speed-up technical upgrade • Lower your TCO

Challenges: • Customizations added during initial implementations still reside in the application years later

Custom Added Extensions

Custom Modifications To Delivered Objects


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Best Practices for an Upgrade Project – Where Can We Help • Determine Your Implementation or Upgrade Objectives and

Strategy

– Upgrade to Vanilla or Focus on CEMLI Simplification

– Multiple or Single Instance

• Inventory Your System

– Examine current business requirements and determine what is still needed

• Plan the Application Architecture

– Accurate sizing information will help guide decisions on the use of resources

– Project Environment Strategy can minimize TCO

• Implement a strong Change Management Process

– Apply and automated testing approach, reduce impact on end users

– Prepare now for run&maintain

• Optimize Training Processes

– Ensure project and support teams are proficient in the new technology

– Train users at an optimal timeframe will help resolve most issues early

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• Oracle consultants and Product Experts can support you on the definition of the best strategy

• Our tools and specialized teams can assess your current customizations and address the gap to PSFT 9.2 new functioalities

• By hosting your project environments with Oracle Managed Cloud Services you have access to our Certified Configuration, built to extract maximum performance and availability of all Oracle applications and technology together

• Our Transition services will support you on the entire project duration provinding best practices and Oracle insight

• Fast provisioning of new environments can speed-up your project and also reduce cost by using additional project environments as needed

• Our strong Governance will be the single point of contat to help you manage the Change process and assure by Production Assessment processes the stability of your production

• Oracle can provide specialized training and also provide functional experts to manage your application after go-live until you build your own expertise or as long as necessary.


Upgrade Approach: How Upgrade vs. New Implementation

Upgrade toward vanilla Upgrade to PeopleSoft 9.2 while reducing your CEMLIs. New Implementation starting from Vanila or Upgrade migrating CEMLIs with CEMLIs rationalization • Leverage enhanced 9.2 functionality • Keep your investment in key added extensions and bolt-ons • Position your app for future roadmap of PeopleSoft and Fusion application enhancements

Upgrade to 9.2 with focus on CEMLI and Complexity Reduction

Vanilla HCM

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Extent of Customization

Base HCM product as delivered

•Deep functionality. •Lowest Cost of Ownership.

Standard product plus extended

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Typical customized solution

Custom Added Extensions

Custom Modifications To Delivered Objects


Moving to the Oracle Private Managed Cloud

Singular Focus on the Red Stack Unique Connection to the Oracle Machine Massive Scale

Certified Configurations Optimized Across Stack

Advanced SIEM with predictive incident management

Go-Live Center reduced post-go-live issues 54%

Find one – fix many

Early insights into patch releases

Direct access to Product Dev for fastest issue resolution

Immediate input on Development roadmap

5.5Mn business transactions per day

3.2Bn database transactions/hr

World’s largest Oracle VM and Linux Grid

11+ petabytes of managed storage

Upgrade Approach: How


Functional Upgrade Services • Functional Impact Analysis Workshops • Pre & Post Upgrade Configuration Support • Upgrade Testing Support

Why Partner with Oracle ? Oracle Combined Upgrade Approach

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Technical Upgrade Services • Upgrade Factory (PowerHouse) • Initial Technical Upgrade, Upgrade Iterations • Upgrade Go Live Support • Trial Upgrade (Initial Technical Upgrade) Support

CEMLI Upgrade Services • CEMLI Benchmarking & Upgrade Impact Analysis • Pre-Upgrade CEMLI Inventory Analysis and Cataloging • CEMLI Upgrade Retrofit • CEMLI Support during Functional Testing

Leverage New Features

Improve Operations

Reduce Cost of Ownership

Upgrade Faster

Minimize Downtime

Reduce Risk

Inventory your CEMLIs

CEMLI Impact Analysis

Reduce your CEMLIs


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Barriers to Software Currency Protect and Evolve is a roadmap that can overcome these barriers

0% 20% 40% 60% 80%

Cut-over downtime

Maintaining Customizations

Limited IT Staff

End-user Involvement (testing, reqts)

Top Enterprise Suite Upgrade Project Risks

Source: OAUG

Like-for-like upgrade

Offloaded by running in the cloud

Extensive Experience with upgrades

OMCS Upgrade Powerhouse

Mitigated by

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Protect and Evolve Removes Upgrade Barriers Stable Operations with Lower TCO and Less Staff Involvement

Protect Business continuity Oracle investment

How Migrate into Managed Cloud Modernize HW, Platform Run in Oracle Cloud (Managed/Public/Hybrid) Why Protect from HW Failure, SW Bugs Unburden your staff Stable operations to plan upgrade Lower operational cost pays for upgrade

Evolve To the latest release By enabling new functionality By applying maintenance at your own pace By keeping up to date with point release upgrades

How Upgrade using Oracle Upgrade Factory (*) Establish roadmap for turning on new features Run in Oracle Cloud ( Managed/Public/Hybrid) Why Upgrade Factory is leanest, fastest, lowest-risk upgrade 1/2 time, 1/3 cost, 40% lower downtime Integrated, end-to-end process New functionality and integration with new products

PROTECT EVOLVE

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(*) Some tools are only available for @Oracle migrations


Extensive Proprietary Tooling

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Technical

CEMLI

Functional

Proprietary tools & methods Close collaboration w/ R&D

Proprietary CEMLI Tools

Cloud Project Spaces Pre-built engagement assets


Power House Reduces Cutover Downtime by 40%

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Intensive CareTM with high performance hardware and storage

Predictable and Reduced Upgrade Time Repeatable & Standard Infrastructure Level Process Cloud Services Power House is available only for @Oracle model

Deploy Certified Configuration of PSFT

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PSFT Database to Upgrade

Extreme Performance Server

Extreme Performance Storage

Go Live PSFT 9.2

Cloud Services Power House

Reduced Downtime

ZFS Replication into Power House Storage

VM Moves into Power House

VM Moves out of Power House


Technical Upgrade CEMLI

Upgrade Functional Upgrade

Run and Maintain

Optimized, lean Start-to-Finish Process Flow

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Delivered jointly by Oracle Consulting and Managed Cloud Services

Factory Approach:

Included Database Upgrade MiddleWare Upgrade Application Upgrade Code Standardization Testing: Production Readiness Project environemnts provisioning

Included Impact Analysis CEMLI Break-fix Testing: CEMLI, Tech, SI User Acceptance Go-live

Included 3 years run & maintain

Bare bones effort: Mandatory Config Training Delta Analysis

Delivered by Oracle Combined Approach:

Managed Cloud Services

Consulting Managed Cloud Services

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Case in Brazil

• Utilities company

• Operations in multiple countries

• Runing multiple instances of PSFT versions 8.9, 9.0

• Upgrading to a Single Instance PSFT 9.2

• Approaching as new Implementation with extreme reduction in customizations

• Hosted @Oracle Managed Cloud

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