Capacity
Assessment, Readiness Assessment, and Risk Analysis for an Oracle® ERP Project
InfoSENTRY prepared an organizational capacity
assessment, readiness assessment, and risk analysis for a county’s enhancement
of its Oracle® financial system. The county had implemented Oracle’s general
ledger and certain parts of the human resources and payroll systems in 2000.
After an analysis of the potential benefits and costs of enhancing, expanding,
and integrating the system into a full enterprise resource planning (ERP)
system, the county contracted with InfoSENTRY to prepare an in-depth assessment
of its capacity to undertake the multi-year, multi-million dollar project.
InfoSENTRY prepared a research effort to interview over
100 county managers and staff members in business units and the information
systems (IS) unit. InfoSENTRY’s research design also included focus groups with
information systems staff members, site visits to other counties, and reviews
of project-relevant documentation.
The report recommended a detailed set of project
management, project staffing, documentation, meeting, and reporting streams for
the effort. InfoSENTRY also recommended a realignment of the county’s IS unit
in order to provide optimal support for the greatly expanded Oracle® ERP.
InfoSENTRY also included an assessment of the county IS
unit’s security and business continuity management plans, policies, and
procedures. InfoSENTRY provided a basic set of recommendations for security
procedures to complement previous security assessments recommendations for the
county’s HIPAA- (Health Information Portability and Accountability Act) and
Oracle®-related data.
A major section of InfoSENTRY’s report included a risk
analysis of the planned Oracle® enhancement project. This analysis included a
determination of the project’s main risk elements, an evaluation of each item’s
potential impact and probability of occurrence, and recommendations for steps
to mitigate each risk.
The county accepted InfoSENTRY’s report and
recommendations. It is currently underway with the implementation.
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