ORACLE SERVICES FOR APPLICATION MIGRATIONS TO ORACLE HARDWARE INFRASTRUCTURES SERVICE, SUPPORT AND EXPERT GUIDANCE FOR THE MIGRATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF YOUR ORACLE APPLICATIONS ON ORACLE INFRASTRUCTURE KEY FEATURES Architectural design and planning Migration guidance, unique tools and factory approach Upgrade of applications, database or middleware in 1 project if needed Comprehensive installation, configuration and testing services Preproduction readiness reviews and go-live support Dedicated technical assistance and skills mentoring throughout the process KEY BENEFITS Accelerate return and maximize value of your investment Reduce deployment and project risk Ensure optimal performance Systems migration expertise and lifecycle solution ensures smooth transition to new technology Oracle provides the services and expertise to migrate and optimize your Oracle application environments on an Oracle hardware infrastructure, helping you to build a fully integrated solution, accelerate adoption, reduce deployment cost and risk, and ensure operational readiness. Whether it is Oracle s portfolio of engineered systems or the latest in traditional Oracle SPARC and X86 servers and storage, an Oracle infrastructure provides the high performance and availability your business demands. Through a lifecycle services approach, Oracle experts deliver an integrated solution designed to accelerate your new technology adoption. Why run on an Oracle Hardware Infrastructure? Oracle is the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company. Oracle delivers a complete, integrated technology stack engineering, tuning, and collaboration is done at every level. Software is optimized to take advantage of hardware features, and hardware is engineered to take advantage of software so that optimizations can be applied to the complete system for better performance, availability, security, and manageability. Expert Guidance and Best Practices Speed Deployment Times Oracle provides services to help you quickly migrate to a new Oracle IT infrastructure. With a lifecycle approach, Oracle offers a complete portfolio of architecture, migration, upgrade, and readiness services delivered by highly trained and skilled experts. Oracle s architects provide a complete software architecture and migration design that is tailored to your unique objectives, timelines, security needs and business continuity requirements. And when migrating your platform, applications or data, Oracle s dedicated migration experts utilize automated migration tools and cost-effective factory approach to help maximize automation and minimize migration time. When you are ready for deployment, Oracle engineers assist with your go-live process by delivering operational readiness and deployment reviews focused on IT processes and your business and project KPIs. Optimize your Oracle Technology Infrastructure Oracle s goal is to help you achieve a smooth, successful and optimized migration that protects your legacy application investment. With an optimized Oracle hardware infrastructure, you mitigate the need for future migrations, improve IT efficiency and service delivery, and you are better able to adapt to evolving business needs. Oracle s unique processes reduce risk and cost
while allowing for customization. With the use of automated tools throughout the process coupled with guidance from Oracle s technology specialists, you get faster and more accurate migrations. And Oracle s engineers share best practices for deploying and configuring your new technology to help you achieve maximum availability of your IT infrastructure. Oracle Services for Migrations to Oracle Infrastructures IT Strategy and Architecture Design Architects provide expertise across the entire stack, from applications to systems, with best practices and reference architectures for your business and IT strategy Architecture guidance and practical plans quickly translate your business and IT vision into reality Oracle Upgrade Factory for Applications RELATED SERVICES FROM ORACLE UNIVERSITY Expert-led training to prepare your organization for deployment of Oracle SPARC servers, Sun x86 servers, Oracle Linux and Oracle Solaris into production quickly and smoothly. World-class training and learning experience with a 100% Student Satisfaction program. Engineered-to-order upgrade solutions that include best-in-class methodology and comprehensive solution expertise combined with an upgrade factory Oracle Upgrade Factory capabilities leverage a proven methodology that consolidates years of expertise into automated processes Oracle Migration Factory for Infrastructure, Database and Middleware Dedicated migration experts with product specialization across Oracle product lines, including non-oracle to Oracle migration capabilities Efficient tools and unique end-to-end factory approach to accelerate time-to-benefit Oracle Standard System Installation and Oracle Standard Software Installation and Configuration Comprehensive, system installation including site audit, installation and configuration planning documentation, testing and handover Tailored software installation and configuration based upon usage scenarios that includes testing and patch deployment Oracle Preproduction Readiness Review Assess supportability and readiness of your setup and implementation plans, including reviews of your migration plan, backup plan and test plans Assistance with setup of Oracle Support tools, including Oracle Configuration Manager and Auto Service Request Oracle Go-Live Support Oracle Technical Account Manager reviews deliverables and discusses your go-live plan and schedule Deliver operational readiness review focused on IT processes and a deployment review focused on business and project KPIs Oracle IT Strategy and Architecture Design Oracle s IT strategy and architecture services from Oracle Consulting help drive faster time to value, reduce data center complexity, and achieve agility across your IT portfolio. Oracle's architects provide expertise across the entire stack, from applications to systems. With best practices and reference architectures for your business and IT strategy, our team of experts guides the building of your IT foundation from start to finish with architecture services 2
including roadmaps, implementation guidance, and a realistic plan. Whether you are planning a systems refresh, ERP upgrade, or major hardware infrastructure migration- our architects work closely with your IT and business leaders to provide architecture guidance and practical plans that quickly translate your business and IT vision into reality. Review your business and IT environment, strategies, goals and objectives. Create an architecture vision using proven architecture reference models, principles and standards. You benefit from the experience and best practices gained from a vast portfolio of successful architectures. The result is a competitive and practical vision. Assess your current-state architecture, including an assessment of your capabilities and maturity, a gap analysis, and opportunities for standardization and consolidation. Work with you to develop a strategy for your future-state architecture, including deployment models, disaster recovery, capacity, and security planning. Create an architecture roadmap with priority projects identified including upgrade, migration, and phased implementation plans. In addition, we develop an operational readiness plan and recommend a governance strategy for on-going success. Oracle Upgrade Factory By keeping your software investments current with the latest release, your organization benefits from the most up-to-date applications and features and allows you to keep pace in today s competitive marketplace. Oracle Consulting delivers engineered-to-order upgrade solutions that include best-in-class methodology and comprehensive solution expertise combined with an upgrade factory. Oracle Upgrade Factory capabilities leverage a proven methodology that consolidates years of expertise into automated processes that makes costs predictable, accelerates delivery, and reduces demands on your IT staff. Benchmarking and Analysis Oracle evaluates your organization s application configurations, extensions, modifications, localizations, and integrations (CEMLI) complexity score to understand your organization s customizations. Assessment and Roadmap Explores upgrade options and evaluates readiness. CEMLI Assessment Oracle assesses the current software environment and provides recommendations to eliminate customizations using standard functionality. CEMLI Upgrade Oracle analyzes the impact of upgrade on customizations to determine the customizations that can be removed during the upgrade process. Functional Upgrade Provides setup and configuration assistance of the new application s release features and user learning adoption.. Technical Upgrade A technical upgrade of the existing Oracle applications environment to the latest release. Oracle Migration Factory Oracle Migration Factory accelerates migrations and technology upgrades while reducing risk and cost through dedicated experts, standardized methodology and tools, and automation. Oracle Consulting migration experts plan, architect, implement, and project manage a solution based on your unique environment. The migration team iterates through the following phases: 3
Discover Oracle indentifies all components to be migrated and uses factory tools to collect the necessary information to determine the complexity and dependencies between assets. Analyze The target architecture is defined, this will enable you to reach and exceed your business goals. The migration is defined based on the complexity and dependencies defined. Upgrades of technology components like database and middleware included as appropriate to ensure best performing target architecture. Migrate Oracle uses migration and upgrade tools together with its proven migration processes to migrate your existing technology to Oracle target platform. Transition Oracle assists with production readiness and cutover to production. Comprehensive analysis of all migration components Sources migrated to target destination with automated tools and scripts Includes detailed, end-to-end management, monitoring and real-time reporting Continually optimized through migration knowledge pooling/sharing Oracle Standard System Installation When the new systems are ready to be installed, the Oracle Standard System Installation provides comprehensive system installation, configuration and testing services to shorten time to deployment. Oracle Advanced Customer Support Services delivers successful installations with highly trained engineers and proven, standardized methodologies. Oracle s engineers apply best practices, tools, and technology for installations of server and storage systems. System requirements review and delivery of installation plan includes site audit and documentation of environmental conditions and requirements System installation, including critical patches, updates, and common upgrades such as CPUs and memory using proven methodologies and best practices Installation testing utilizing Oracle tools to confirm installation according to plan Oracle Standard Software Installation and Configuration Software installation and set up services help you maximize your technology investment by tailoring your product configuration to your specific business and technical requirements. Oracle Advanced Customer Support Services recommends specific configurations based upon intended use and Oracle best practices. Our team of engineers updates product build sheets and installs recommended software and any critical patches. The result is an accelerated time to deployment of Oracle technology utilizing proven methodologies tailored to your unique requirements. Gather build-sheet parameters and identify usage scenarios Configure and optimize system based on use case scenarios and Oracle best practices Run configuration tests and review with you all findings and recommendations Oracle Preproduction Readiness Review Oracle Preproduction Readiness Review helps you assess supportability and readiness of your setup and implementation plans, including reviews of your migration plan, backup plan and test plans. Oracle Advanced Customer Support Services provides personalized advanced support for your environment. This team provides assistance with how to leverage Oracle Premier Support 4
as well as setup of Oracle Support tools such as Oracle Configuration Manager and Auto Service Request. The result is that you are properly prepared for implementation and deployment leveraging support best practices to mitigate risk. Assess overall supportability and readiness of deployment approach, including migration plan, backup plan and test plans Review your support plan and provide insight on how to leverage Oracle Premier Support and assist with setup of Oracle Support tools, including Oracle Configuration Manager and Auto Service Request Deliver final report and recommendations Oracle Go-Live Support Oracle Go-Live Support services assess go-live and operational readiness as well as provide tailored support for the go-live event. Oracle Advanced Customer Support Services provides personalized support and a single point of contact to review deliverables and discuss your golive plan and schedule. An Oracle Technical Account Manager conducts an operational readiness review focused on IT processes and a deployment review focused on business and project KPIs. This service establishes an Oracle Support plan to stay on high alert for go-live and a dedicated on-site or remote support if needed. The result reduced risk for go-live. Oracle Technical Account Manager reviews deliverables and discusses your go-live plan and schedule Deliver operational readiness review focused on IT processes and a deployment review focused on business and project KPIs Oracle Support plan to stay on high alert for go-live and a dedicated on-site or remote support if needed. Deliver final report and recommendations Maximize the Value of Your Investment in Oracle Solutions Proper planning and deployment of your infrastructure migration project is critical to optimizing the performance of your new environment. By utilizing Oracle Services, you can help ensure the business value, migration, and ongoing system performance of your technology from the start. Contact Us For more information about the Oracle Services for application migrations, please contact your local Oracle Consulting or Oracle Advanced Customer Support Services representative. Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is provided for information purposes only and the contents hereof are subject to change without notice. This document is not warranted to be error-free, nor subject to any other warranties or conditions, whether expressed orally or implied in law, including implied warranties and conditions of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. We specifically disclaim any liability with respect to this document and no contractual obligations are formed either directly or indirectly by this document. This document may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, for any purpose, without our prior written permission. Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. AMD, Opteron, the AMD logo, and the AMD Opteron logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices. Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark licensed through X/Open Company, Ltd. 0411 5