Summary
Ascendum offers our clients a series of Enterprise Package Lifecycle Solutions that support their organization's deployment, integration and lifecycle management needs. Our team can engage at any stage of a project with resources of any level from senior level strategists to architects, DBA's, developers, and report writers.
Client Challenges
Ascendum's EPL Solutions offering can help with these common challenges:
- Complex Deployments - Ascendum has developed a world-class process for the deployment of enterprise packages for any size of organization. Based on many years of experience with these implementations, this process is designed to minimize the risk of complex implementations while at the same time maximizing the return on those investments.
- Full Lifecycle Planning and Support - Many enterprise package application implementations never reach their full potential because only the initial implementation phase of the project is adequately planned for, budgeted, and executed. While the initial implementation phase is critical in setting a strong foundation for future success, what happens after the implementation is where the real difficulty lies. Ascendum can provide this critical strategy, planning and execution with our Enterprise Application Roadmap processes.
- Integration - Often, organizations fail to achieve the ROI targets for their enterprise package implementations due to the complexity of integrating the applications into the larger IT environment. Whether the need is data integration, application integration, network integration or seamless integration with external systems, Ascendum has the experience and the proven methodologies to get the job done.
- Optimization - Many organizations that have implemented enterprise package applications experience one or more of the following problems to some degree: poor application performance, inefficient data entry, limited reporting capability, and/or a proliferation of side applications to perform business operations that could and should be performed in the ERP application. Ascendum can bring the right resources to analyze and optimize your implementation to make your organization more effective.
- Upgrades - Upgrades are the Achilles Heel of enterprise package application implementations. Having a solid methodology for handling small and large upgrades, as well as planning for them, is vital to the success of any enterprise package application project. Ascendum has successfully managed many of these upgrades through our Intelligent Upgrade process.
Business Value
An optimally-implemented and successfully integrated ERP application will help an organization streamline operations, improve the order-to-cash cycle and reduce cost. An intelligently implemented ERP application is also very important in creating and managing successful international operations. Doing these implementations in the right manner the first time will reduce total cost of ownership and pave the path for future organization growth, change and success.
Toolset Excellence
Ascendum's seasoned and certified consultants maintain full lifecycle experience in implementing and managing ERP applications including needs assessment, requirements analysis, architecture, design, development, deployment, hosting, support and knowledge transfer. Our staff is very experienced with PeopleSoft, Oracle, SAP and JD Edwards software. Our flexible delivery model is built on a strong commitment to customer service and quality, reinforced by a high level of management oversight. Our deep knowledge of this broad set of enterprise platforms, applications and techniques facilitates a speedy return on investment.
