Many entities in the public sector and education market have elected to stay with their aging and archaic legacy systems over the years;
some by necessity for a lack of available funding and others for many other reasons. Most of these organizations sooner or later are
compelled to embrace new technology to enhance and upgrade their day-to-day back office administrative business systems: financial,
payroll, and human resources to name a few. For the most part, these entities are forced into this situation because they no longer have
systems that are maintained by the companies that they purchased them from. There are usually no knowledgeable resources available from
in-house or out-of-house to cost-effectively update them. As a result, these entities have no other choice but to look to commercial
off-the-shelf software and implementation firms to help them install the software in order to meet their unique needs and mandated
requirements. These organizations may not know the best approaches to take. The one thing that is understood is that an adequate
business case and detailed planning must be undertaken in order to properly and safely embark upon an ERP solution and to convince their
elected and/or appointed officials of the merits of such an endeavor.
- Relative urgency of replacing and impacting of retiring legacy system
- High level business case including return on investment and total cost of ownership
- Methodology for development of the business case
- Impact upon organization structure, readiness, and availability of resources which maximizes the value of the ERP investment
- Project approach and high level change management, redesign of business processes, address human resources issues in a complex organizational environment, and communication strategies
- Program management structure for enterprise-wide solutions
- Impact on operations and service delivery
- Potential risks of the project
- Implementation plan including sequencing and timeline by module and organizational unit
- High level cost estimates by project phase that includes hardware, software, implementation, and support services
- Resource requirements by project phase including ongoing client resources
- Scale-up of infrastructure and end-user training
While many of our clients undertake these services in preparation of an ERP initiative and requirement definitions, there are also many others that take advantage of these services during the ERP effort.
Empower Solutions stands ready to assist prospective customers with this very important service offering.
