grade strategies and philosophies ranging from building an up-grade business case to deciding who bears the project costs, were conducted by Unisphere Research and Oracle. The surveys found a considerable amount of upgrade activity among OAUG and Quest members. For OAUG, more than a third of the respon-dents say their organi-zations have already moved or are in the process of moving to the latest release of Oracle E-Business Suite. For Quest, close to 50 percent are in the process of upgrad-ing or have already made the move to the

Although upgrading to a new version of an ERP system can be viewed as a daunting task, a vast majority of enterprise application managers say upgrade projects are often short in duration, fall within budget estimates, and rarely disrupt business operations. Those are some of the conclusions in “ERP Upgrades: What’s Your Philosophy?” a new survey of mem-bers of the Oracle Ap-plications Users Group (OAUG), and “ERP Upgrades: New Func-tionality, New Opportu-nities” a new survey of members of the Quest International Users Group. These surveys, which explored up-

New Surveys Show ERP Upgrades Provide Clear Benefits

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latest of Oracle’s Peo-pleSoft or JD Edwards releases. Among respondents who provided informa-tion about ERP up-grades, 12 percent from OAUG and 8 per-cent for Quest said the projects were transfor-mational in nature, meaning that the or-ganizations used the upgrade opportunity to change the way they work and how their business processes are handled. When asked what the

anticipated benefits of

upgrading to the latest

releases were, both

OAUG and Quest

members ranked ac-

cess to new functional-

ity in first place, and

improved performance

in second. Improved

user productivity and

continued alignment

with latest Oracle tech-

nologies rounded out

the top four anticipated

benefits.

The typical length of

time for an ERP up-

grade is between 6

and 12 months, the

survey found. A major-

ity of respondents re-

ported that disruptions

to business operations

were minimal, with

almost half of the ex-

ecutives saying they

experienced five days

or less of downtime.

WorkBox is an advanced platform designed to create and manage business processes. It is a practical tool to define simple documents flow such as flow of in-voices, absences, sick leaves, business trips as well as modeling complex business processes based on com-pany’s IT systems. Thanks to implementation of state workflow model, processes may be modeled in ex-tremely easy and legible way.

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Our staff Steve Yu from YGL Convergence HK visited KL and Penang recently to demonstrate

Datapolis Workbox to our customers. Datapolis Workbox is a user-friendly, GUI-driven tool for

modelling and managing workflows in the SharePoint 2010 environment. Its unique architecture

enables dynamic process management and adaptation to the changes in the environment and client

requirements. Its features include, but are not limited to, designing document flows, implementing

the ordering process, project and work time accounting, as well as designing help-desk systems.

Datapolis Workbox utilises two logical layers: a business and a technical layer. The former illus-

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Yeap KC (left) and Steve Yu (right) at the E&O

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Hedy Tan (left), Yeap KC (centre) and Steve

Yu (right) having lunch at the E&O hotel

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