• Be prepared to decide whether need to upgrade or re-implement your E-Business Suite
• Understand the complexities inherent to each data entity that needs to be converted in Oracle Financials and Oracle Manufacturing 
• Be able to define a sequence of data conversions, based on the dependencies that exist within your data 
• Know how to evaluate the best conversion approach to take for each data entity, considering data volume, quality of the information and number of validations required 
• Learn how to estimate the time required to develop, debug and run each one of the data conversions 
• Understand how to validate data conversion projects 
• Be ready to plan the cut-over activities before the Go-Live

Prerequisite Knowledge and Skills

• Basic project management skills (schedule development, effort estimations, risk management)
• Basic Oracle Applications Financials and Manufacturing functional knowledge
• Basic understanding of Oracle Database and Oracle Tools (SQL, PL/SQL)

• Discuss the business reasons that justify a decision to migrate or re-implement your Oracle E-Business Suite 
• Review technical information related to R12 upgrades 
  • versions that allow a direct upgrade to Oracle Release 12 
  • execution times 
  • technical pre-requisites for an R12 upgrade
• Discuss functional issues about data entities to convert for Oracle’s Financials and Manufacturing modules, including: 
  • approaches
  • pre-requisite setups
  • common functional risks
• Review the data conversion sequence. Determine which objects to convert first, based on the functional and technical dependencies

• Discover your alternatives for converting data:
  • data load
  • automatic conversion from a text file
  • from an Excel file,
  • using database-links 
  • using staging tables
• Review some example of a data conversion using each of the different approaches described above
• Validating data conversion activities
• Estimating  the time needed to build data conversion scripts, based on method used. Methodologies discussed include:
  • the Oracle AIM estimating method
  • re-use of components
• Adjusting adjust accelerator packages to your environment - how much effort should you expect

• Review the migration of customizations and Oracle Module extensions.
• Product families with the biggest changes in Oracle Release 12
• Understanding the most common changes in Oracle Release 12
• Estimating the effort to adjust your customizations with respect to data conversion
• Discover the advantages of using a source version control system to keep track of code changes during data conversion
• Key data conversion considerations for each CRP cycle
• The impact of data conversion on Cut-Over activities - how to plan your Cut-Over to arrive at a seamless, successful Go-Live
• Review the best templates to use during an Oracle data conversion project