Application Package Technical Environment
Know the technical foundation on which you will be setting up your application package -- do a gap assessment of the existing and new technical environment.
Know the technical foundation on which you will be setting up your application package -- do a gap assessment of the existing and new technical environment.
A necessary step in both selecting and implementing a package is detailing the technical requirements required to run the application. Identify the hardware/software environment, interfacing systems, operational and backup procedures, and other key technical requirements.
User involvement is key to designing an effective application and a good user interface. Give the business users a template of standards and procedures to follow so that they can describe how they do their work, including workflow, and thus how the application should work for them.
This example will help you put in place logical as well as physical database design standards for building data warehouses using Business Objects.
Use this document to help you manage application package vendors during every aspect of the evaluation process.
The key to making your application usable is a standardized, well-designed graphical user interface (GUI). This example defines GUI design standards and guidelines for an application built with Oracle Forms 5.0.
Now that you've built your customized application, make sure that the operations staff knows how to keep it running. Provide well-defined, standardized procedures for the system operations staff.
You're about to conduct a pilot project using a packaged application. What documentation and files will you need to do it right?
This template is designed to assist with developing a communication plan and specific messages when new governance standards are being implemented throughout the IT organization. This template does not include training, which is also a part of standards deployment, but focuses on the “marketing effort” that is weak in many deployments.
How do changes get recorded, analyzed and approved on your project? This document contains guidelines for these procedures and more.
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