Manage Change

After you have created your Change Management Plan, ensure that you update the plan as required.

To help with this process, review Create a Change Management Plan.

Here are some key areas to consider as part of your ongoing operations:

• Help employees understand the benefits of change and share the readiness plan

• Ensure consistent, accurate communication based on your communication plan

• Consider agile rapid deployment. Some organizations include scrum masters.

• Find ways to transition skills to the cloud. Some typical examples emerge when looking at your own EPM implementation. For example, resources that have Oracle Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management for Hyperion Enterprise in the background can easily move to Data Management. But it is also important to look at your EPM roadmap. There are always new requirements for what to add and change. Let’s say one of the requirements is to be able to see the process and bottlenecks in order to shorten the cycle. In that case, you might want to invest time in building skills around Task Manager.

• Understand updates in Cloud Readiness and What's New. Review the feature summary matrix that shows where some features are automatic, others are opt-in, and others might require effort to implement. The Oracle Cloud EPM team has expanded the information in the release notes to provide you with more detail, especially for the features that Oracle believes have a bigger impact. Always keep in mind that for certain features you can opt-in, or turn them on. This allows you to pick the time that is right for your projects.

• Oracle is responsible for the change management process involved in updating the software and configuration of all environments. Any issue caused as the result of this process is defined as a regression.

  You (not Oracle) are responsible for the change management of custom artifacts such as dimensions, forms and reports in all environments. The migration of artifacts from one environment to another is a self-service operation.

• Refer to these User Assistance and Training resources to help you adapt to change.

• Use the Oracle EPM Cloud Operations Guide for information on troubleshooting, release change management, making EPM Cloud-related requests, and asking questions about EPM Cloud.
• Review these helpful resources.

• Join the Cloud Community to learn from the community, receive timely announcements, and take advantage of webinars about updates and new features. Consider reviewing this Oracle Cloud Applications webinar.

• To learn more about ERP and EPM change management, review this session on Cloud Customer Connect.
• Subscribe to the EPM Events Forum on Customer Connect to receive notifications to upcoming events.
• Be a part of local user groups and identify individuals and roles for attendance at conferences, such as:
  • Oracle Cloud World - leaders, visionaries, and functional leads
  • ODTUG Kscope (Oracle Development Tools User Group) - practitioners, implementers, developers application administrators, and power users
  • OATUG (Oracle Applications and Technology Users Group) - application administrators and power users to ensure a strong alignment to Oracle ERP
  • UKOUG (UK Oracle User Group) - application administrators and power users