Steps for a Successful Upgrade Plan

The Upgrade Roadmap is the procedure to support upgrade projects from a functional and technical perspective. Upgrade is a Phase driven approach outlining key methods and deliverables to successfully run an upgrade project.

• Modification adjustment and New functionality
• Project management
• End User training
• Test organization and execution
• Technical upgrade and Downtime preparation
• Hardware upgrade

Having a proper Upgrade Plan support transparent business processes and all systems documented such as type, release. It includes all test results included and project documents available and all the customer developments and modifications documented and All support services delivered at the right time.

Upgrade Plan addresses the following functional and technical upgrade aspects such as Process design such as application and modification adjustments, IT infrastructure planning and security concept, Test planning and execution, Technical upgrade procedure and End-User training and documentation.

What are the Steps for an Upgrade

• Define an Upgrade project
• Analyze as is IT Landscape
• Documentation and analysis of as is situation
• Document customer solution landscape
• Verify existing core business processes
• Verify existing documentation modifications, customer developments, interfaces etc.
• Define existing the to-be core processes
• Definition of target solution requirements such as to be situation
• Identify process and function release deltas
• Adapt existing business processes such as automated via comparison report
• Document adaptions to modifications, interfaces etc.
• Evaluate existing test cases
• Determine end-user training requirements
• Configure new processes
• Test processes
• Implementing and testing the upgrade
• Perform technical upgrade of non-productive systems
• Automatically determine upgrade relevant activities and documentation for configuration structures and business processes
• Perform upgrade and delta customizing
• Organize and execute acceptance testing
• Delta training
• Solution Upgrade
• Completing the upgrade
• Perform system and integration testing
• Finalize E-Learning material
• Create and use role-specific online learning maps
• Perform upgrade of productive system landscape

• Reduce project efforts using pre defined templates
• Save time with tailored access to relevant information
• Monitor key project administration activities
• Keeping track of status, issues and project documentation
• Accompanied through all upgrade-relevant phases and activities
• Savings in testing efforts and costs
• Reduction of costs for training material and end user training
• Process and role oriented creation of learning material
• Easy deployment, flexibility of updating material anytime
• Reduction of upgrade project risks

What are the Benefits in having a proper Upgrade Plan