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Your digital transformation journey with Deloitte’s Oracle Operate to Transform

Deloitte’s Oracle Operate to Transform

To achieve these objectives, Deloitte is pleased to introduce the Deloitte’s Oracle Operate to Transform program. It incorporates 3 phases of execution on your digital transformation journey:

Operate legacy ERP

Implementation

Operate in Cloud

Operate legacy ERP

Legacy ERP takeover

Deloitte will take ownership of support for your legacy ERP platform to enable your team’s capacity to upskill, address foundational issues, and prepare for the planning and execution of a successful cloud migration

  • Data cleanup
  • Cybersecurity
  • Cloud assessment
  • Process improvements
  • Tax services
  • Analytics and automation
  • Onboarding transformation team
  • ESG lab

Implementation

ERP cloud modernization

We’ll engage our proven cloud migration methodology and work with you to modernize your platform, focusing on the changes that meet your current business priorities. Our approach will be tailored to the urgency of your needs, availability of resources, and ability to adopt change.

  • User stories
  • Design and development
  • Testing
  • Training
  • Conversion and deployment
  • Hypercare

Operate in Cloud

Sustainment model

We will use our proven Operate methodology to stabilize the application and work with you to drive continuous improvements and innovations. We’ll manage the Oracle releases and use automation to perform regression testing so that you can focus on trying new release features.

  • Cloud incident and problem management enhancements
  • Application monitoring and analytics
  • Service reporting
  • Continual improvement
  • Faster stabilization and value realization via greater user adoption

Operate legacy ERP

Key activities

  • Onboard support services of the legacy ERP
  • Incorporate best practices and processes to elevate service levels
  • Assess and cleanse baseline data
  • Conduct a cloud migration review to assess the benefits of your environment and develop a business case and road map
  • Perform a cyber-risk assessment of your current environment
  • Review payroll optimization
  • Examine existing configuration and business processes to identify potential short-term areas for improvement
  • Provide a tax evaluation of current IT budget allocation
  • Attend an ESG education and strategy session

Opportunities we help you uncover

  • Identification of areas for business process optimization
  • Leveraging synergies between business units
  • Knowledge of automation and industry best practices
  • Evaluation and modernization of your current cybersecurity infrastructure
  • Value maximization of the latest features relevant to your business

Challenges we help you address

  • Management of existing resources and capacity for a complex migration project while sustaining the current platform
  • Forecast and budget for the capital cost investment for the ERP modernization
  • Lack of an integrated improvement and innovation program tailored to your unique business needs
  • Need for an education program about the complexities of cloud implementation

Benefits for you

  • Improved planning, scheduling, and forecasting for the business
  • Recruitment of high-demand talent with a global network
  • Increased cybersecurity awareness and protocols
  • Upskilling for your current workforce to become Oracle Cloud-certified as well as experienced subject-matter professionals and champions of assigned functional areas
  • Flexible fee structure
  • Enhanced cash flow by maximizing tax benefits between operational and capital expenditures
  • Access to a global community of Deloitte clients on similar journeys

Implementation

Key activities

  • Collaborate with business stakeholders to uncover their needs and business problems
  • Bridge the gap between the IT and business units
  • Provide a business assessment, project blueprint, implementation road map, risk assessment, and resource and budget plan
  • Plan scenarios that align with desirable business outcomes
  • Assign project management teams with recurring status reports

Opportunities we help you uncover

  • Business process optimization
  • Robotics process and automation
  • Growth and innovation
  • Support to upskill and train existing team members on Oracle Cloud
  • Value maximization of the latest features relevant to your business

Challenges we help you address

  • Transparent understanding of current enterprise IT environment
  • Current application support landscape and health assessment
  • Budget overruns and fluctuating costs
  • Business stakeholders’ expectations

Benefits for you

  • Top Canadian talent skilled in cyber, tax, and ESG matters working with your teams
  • Centralized and dedicated team in a talent- constrained market assigned to your project
  • Continual improvement through leveraging global client and industry best practices for R&D
  • Cloud application learning and development opportunities provided for your current workforce
  • Integrated innovation plan for modernizing your current ERP system
  • The Deloitte and Oracle Alliance relationship
  • Contract and renewal support from Deloitte, a leading reseller of Oracle
  • Dedicated, skilled, and experienced Canadian team to plan, implement, and sustain a complex ERP platform with a single source of truth for data
  • In-house finance, supply chain, HR, and IT teams enabled to focus on core business functions and the end-user experience
  • De-risking of key aspects of large technology transformation programs (e.g., data, custom development, integration) with the support of global resources
  • Use of Deloitte assets such as Ascend and Command Center

Operate in Cloud - Cloud Sustainment Centre of Excellence

Key activities

  • Provide extended hours of support in more than 13 languages
  • Share an on-demand cloud environment that will align your ESG initiatives and sustainable development goals (SDGs)
  • Onboard and train a dedicated business support team

Opportunities we help you uncover

  • Short, effortless procurement process
  • Reliable and sustainable end-user service
  • Global network of experienced and skilled talent
  • Identification of areas for improvement, automation, and innovation
  • Best practices, industry blueprints, and cases for solution development

Challenges we help you address

  • Rising costs of licensing and maintenance
  • Impact of supply shortages in hardware products and IT equipment
  • Finding and retaining top talent who will maintain service quality
  • Business planning, scheduling, and forecasting

Benefits for you

  • Agile, secure, and sustainable hybrid work model
  • Opportunities for continual improvement through tax benefit programs
  • Identification of key differentiators in your organization to create a competitive advantage
  • Release Management planning
  • Automated Regression Testing
  • Continuous improvements
  • Environment planning and management
  • Deloitte’s proprietary OperateEdge™ tool that provides operational insights, and automates critical workflows
  • Rated by analysts as leader of managed services
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