AIM for Business Flows

When enhancing or replacing mission-critical applications, there's no room for error.

Your team needs direction, expert guidance, and state of the art tools to accomplish

these complex changes. Oracle’s AIM for Business Flows can help. AIM for Business

Flows is a proven, comprehensive method and toolkit to successfully guide

implementation of an Oracle E-Business Suite solution.

Changing your enterprise's core business applications is a major undertaking and poses considerable challenges. When this critical step becomes necessary, you need to achieve a seamless transition to your new applications in a tight timeframe, while minimizing risks and disruptions to your business. And you need to ensure that your new system meets your business requirements with optimal functionality. AIM for Business Flows is there to help you with these business challenges. AIM for Business Flows AIM for Business Flows is a comprehensive toolkit for deploying Oracle E-Business Suite, providing a tested framework for quality implementations. The AIM for Business Flows toolkit, combined with the skills, experience and business knowledge of your implementation service provider, assure you of a higher-quality implementation and lead you to earlier business results.

AIM for Business Flow builds on the success of earlier versions of AIM. It incorporates a new, simplified web interface that runs in a standard browser and provides easy access to the tool’s comprehensive content.

AIM for Business Flows is used by Oracle Consulting and Oracle’s implementation partners. As a proven methodology and a single approach for your implementation needs, AIM for Business Flows offers all the tools necessary to manage implementation projects of any level of complexity with speed and efficiency. Key Benefits • AIM for Business Flows gives you a proven roadmap to guide your

implementation. Developed from the extensive experience of Oracle consultants, it has been applied in hundreds of enterprises to plan and execute successful implementations of Oracle E-Business Suite. Through AIM for Business Flows, you are benefiting from Oracle Consulting's unmatched expertise in this field.

• AIM for Business Flows was developed with the specific objective of

enabling you to achieve faster implementations with lower costs and mitigated risks. AIM for Business Flows saves you time, expense and resources. And with the AIM for Business Flows blueprint, you can be

confident that nothing important is overlooked in the implementation process.

• AIM for Business Flows is not a one-size-fits-all template, but is tailored to

your specific Oracle E-Business Suite solution. Unlike other implementation toolkits, the ABF project plan is scaleable and adaptable to fit your business needs, focusing on what is most important and avoiding wasted time on non-critical issues.

What's in AIM for Business Flows? AIM for Business Flows gives you all the tools you need to make your implementation successful by providing guidelines for: • Business Process Mapping • Application and Technical Architecture • Module Design and Build • Data Conversion • Documentation • Business System Testing • Performance Testing • Adoption and Learning • Production Migration Keeping you at the Leading Edge AIM for Business Flows is completely Web-deployed and runs on a simple browser. The Web-based deliverable template engine delivers pre-seeded, sample content to your implementation team, ensuring that your implementation is executed using industry-leading practices and techniques. Helping your Team AIM for Business Flows is designed to get your project started in the fast track. It defines comprehensive, detailed steps for the entire implementation lifecycle, guiding all of your team members – regardless of their level of experience – in clearly understanding the implementation process and their role on the team. Using easy-to-customize documentation templates, you develop a robust, detailed plan that gets your project team up and running quickly. Hardware and Software Requirements • Minimum of 400 MHz processor speed/1 GHz recommended • 80 MB of disk space • 256 MB RAM minimum/520 MB recommended • Windows 2000, XP, NT • Microsoft Office 2000 or later • Microsoft Project 98 or later • Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0 or later • Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.0 or later (Java, Cookies, and Java

Script enabled) or Netscape 7.0 or later For more information

Contact your local Oracle Representative with any questions about AIM for Business Flows or to schedule a discussion about addressing the challenges of changing your applications software. For additional information about Oracle Consulting, visit our website at www.oracle.com/consulting