2. Agenda
• What is Fast Track?
• What does it do?
• How is it different from PS Compare Reports?
• How can you reduce project timeline and cost?
• Where else can it be leveraged?
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3. Fast Track
Value Proposition
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4. Company
Overview
Corporate Overview Competency Overview
• Est. 2005 - in USA East, Midwest, West), • Domain Expertise – HCM, Higher Ed, Financials,
Canada and India Supply Chain
• 175 employees, Minority Certified • Rich Experience - Multiple PeopleSoft Upgrades
• Core team with an average of 15+ years from 8.x to 9.1
industry experience • Multiple Fast Track Upgrade Assessments for
• Oracle Partner - Specialize in Cost Effective V9.x Upgrades
Solutions for ERP • International rollouts of HCM, CS, Financials,
• Acute Focus on PeopleSoft, BI, Middleware, Supply Chain
Integration • Roadmap and Strategy planning services for
• Global Delivery Centers V9.1 and Fusion/SOA
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5. Leveraging Fast Track before the upgrade
improves project predictability and mitigates risk
Upgrade Challenges Fast Track Approach
• PeopleSoft Compare does not include • Discovers and analyzes all batch
batch customizations customizations
• Client does not have accurate count • Drills down entire PS_HOME code tree
or record of total customizations to identify all customizations
• Clients do not fully understand impact • Compares the customization against
of customization in the target release target release meta - Impact Analysis
• Customizations are not documented • Parses code and compares meta data
with change/version control to discover all customizations
• Customization Analysis is manual – • Automated, comprehensive analysis –
Resource and Documentation dependant Documentation and Resource independent
• Cannot accurately predict complexity of • Provides complexity ratings AND Upgrade
upgrade time and cost estimates time and cost estimates
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6. Fast Track is a pre-upgrade assessment tool and service that
quickly details the upgrade effort
Benefits
Traditional Fast Track
• Speed – Critical Impact Analysis in
less time over manual efforts
• Reliability – Auto-discovery,
algorithm-based analysis
Subject to error In-depth analysis • Accuracy – No other product
and bias simulates a Tools Upgrade prior to
the actual start of the upgrade to
Intelligent reporting give you an accurate picture of your
customizations
Manual
assessments • Predictability – Can run Fast Track
before the upgrade to accurately
Automated discovery plan and budget
• Visibility - It does what PeopleSoft
Tools do AND A LOT MORE over
the traditional approach
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7. Fast Track Upgrade - Cost Savings
Fast Track vs. Traditional Upgrade - Time Comparison
12
Estimated Duration in Weeks
10
8
6
4
W/O Fast Track
With Fast Track
2
0
Upgrade Phase
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8. Fast Track Upgrade – Time Savings
Fast Track vs. Traditional - Cost Comparison
1,600,000 Straight Path- Low
1,400,000 Straight Path- Med
1,200,000
Straight Path- High
1,000,000
800,000 2-Step - High 2-Step - Low
600,000 2-Step - Med
2-Step - Low 2-Step - Med
400,000
Straight Path- High
200,000
Straight Path- Med 2-Step - High
0
Straight Path- Low
W/O Fast
Track With Fast
Track
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9. Fast Track
Technical Details
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10. Why do companies need Fast Track
Typical PeopleSoft upgrade process misses details needed upfront to accurately estimate project effort
Initial Pass: The Big Picture
Copy of 7 Perform Application
Setup steps
New
Release
8 Back-up
Production
System
database
9 Copy & Transform
Application data
database
Using DataStage jobs PRIMED TARGET
10 Final
Setup steps
1 Database
compare 2 Copy
PeopleTools
4 Compare custom project Compare Reports and
other tools don’t provide
-to identify
customizations
tables
5 Apply customizations in-depth Impact Analysis
vs. 9.0 which is critical in
6 Copy PeopleTools tables
Using DataStage jobs
estimating complexity
and effort of the upgrade.
Demo
(current
release) 3 Update PeopleTools
to new version
TOOLS TARGET
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11. Traditional Assessments are not scientific and accurate
– Fast Track is! * Intuitive Categories
Category New Custom Delivered Custom Total
Object Type High Medium Low High Medium Low
Fields 15 10 25
TranslateValues 5 3 8
Records 75 134 100 40 68 55 472
SQL 10 23 75 5 25 15 153
RecordPeopleCode 173 205 492 67 95 163 1195
ApplicationPackagePeopleCde 0
Pages 183 216 457 37 273 267 1433
PagePeopleCode 15 84 148 12 45 32 336
Components 65 218 385 27 61 163 919
ComponentPeopleCode 46 75 419 25 73 294 932
ComponentRecordPeopleCode 12 65 148 225
ComponentRecFldPeopleCode 10 54 127 191
Menus 54 35 89
PortalRegistryStructures 583 336 919
PermissionLists 174 19 193
ComponentInterfaces 35 62 121 9 21 15 263
ApplicationEnginePeopleCode 75 193 249 16 24 69 626
ProcessDefinitions 1580 375 1955
ServerDefinitions 2 2 4
MessageNodes 0
Messages 125 43 168
MessageChannels 2 2
SubscriptionPeopleCode 54 54
URLDefinitions 5 5
Images 18 18
StyleSheets 14 14
Relationships 0
* Based on your metadata – i.e. real time info
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12. Compare Report does not provide Impact Analysis –
Drilldown to line of code
Fast Track does.
Intuitive grouping by Component
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13. Compare Reports don’t compare custom PeopleCode changes!
Compare on the fly
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14. SQR Analysis – Sample Report
Compare to 9.1 Code directly
from this report
Count of changes based on code parsing and
three-way compare to current demo and 9.1 demo
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15. Drill down to the line of custom code Click on Compare Button
to review current and new
9.1 code side by side
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16. FastTrack Deliverables
Discovery Phase
• Complete listing of online and batch custom code
• Complexity Ratings by Object Type
Fast Track
Deliverables Analysis Phase
Complete, Intelligent • Impact and Statistical Analysis
and Timely • Code Parsing for Online and Batch
Information • Side-by-Side Code Compare
Reporting Phase
• Fixed Price Proposal
• Detailed Effort Estimates
• Dashboard Reports
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17. SQR Analysis – Sample Report
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18. Dashboard – New Complexity Estimates
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