Business Challenges
- Failure to meet user requirements and integrate
- Incompatibility with technical infrastructure
- Vendor support problems
- Expensive and complex installations
What TCS Provides
TCS provides the following three types of JD Edwards System Assessments:
- JD Edwards Implementation Audit: We assess the health of the implementation process including the following:
- Management
- System design
- Change management aspects
- Knowledge sharing process
- Transition readiness of the organization
- JD Edwards System Audit: We assess the effectiveness of the current JD Edwards system.
- Failed JD Edwards Implementation Audit: We undertake a post-facto analysis to understand the causes of failure and recommend a corrective action plan.
We leverage our domain expertise and JD Edwards’ functional knowledge to cover the following aspects of the system assessment:
- Whether the system designed addresses the key challenges of the client?
- Whether the system design considered present practices and future plans of growth?
- Whether best practices are followed in similar industries (key to identifying and optimizing non-value-adding activities)?
- Whether the system adheres to application security and control aspects (segregation of duties)?
- Whether the system is capable of generating reports as per requirements?
- Whether the system suggested can be easily integrated (for example, capability to support the latest integration technologies like web services, fusion middleware, etc.) with other peripheral systems?
- Whether customizations have been done considering upgradeability and maintainability?
- Whether the system is maintainable and scalable?
the TCS Approach
Considering the criticality and complexity of the implementation at a particular site, we, at TCS, suggest the following approach:
- Organize a kick-off meeting to highlight the objective of the engagement, identify key process owners and seek organizational responsibility for the study
- Form a multi-disciplinary team consisting of business domain experts and JD Edwards functional and technical (covering development, integration, CNC) consultants as well as hardware and networking experts
- Visit the deployment site to interview key functional / process owners / IT personnel and select group of end users as per discussions with the program director to capture the relevant information
- Closely co-ordinate between TCS personnel and the core client team
- Review and validate the draft version of the assessment report prepared by the core client team
- Present to the client project sponsor
- Deliver the final assessment report to the client
Business Value
- Nearly risk-free deployment, safeguarding the internal controls and compliance of the enterprise
- System design is aligned to achieve organizational objectives and is compliant with the financial audits
- Improved operational effectiveness, efficiency and security