AIM Advantage 3.

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. Oracles AIM AdvantageTM can help. AIM Advantage 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 Advantage is there to help you with these business challenges.
AIM Advantage 3.1

AIM Advantage is a comprehensive toolkit for deploying Oracle E-Business Suite, providing a tested framework for quality implementations. The AIM Advantage toolkit, combined with your skills, experience and business knowledge, assure you of a higher-quality implementation and lead you to earlier business results. AIM Advantage 3.1 builds on the success of earlier versions of AIM Advantage. It incorporates a new, simplified web interface that runs in a standard browser and provides easy access to the tools comprehensive content. AIM Advantage is used by Oracle Consulting, Oracles implementation partners and customers. As a proven and improved methodology and a single approach for your implementation needs, AIM Advantage 3.1 offers all the tools necessary to manage implementation projects of any level of complexity with speed and efficiency.
Key Benefits

AIM Advantage gives you a proven roadmap to guide your implementation. Developed from the extensive experience of Oracle consultants, it has been applied in thousands of enterprises to plan and execute successful implementations of Oracle E-Business Suite. Through AIM Advantage, you are benefiting from Oracle Consulting's unmatched expertise in this field. We are the global leader in implementing Oracle E-Business Suite. AIM Advantage was developed with the specific objective of enabling you to achieve faster implementations with lower costs and mitigated risks. AIM Advantage saves you time, expense and resources. And with the AIM

Advantage blueprint, you can be confident that nothing important is overlooked in the implementation process. AIM Advantage is not a one-size-fits-all template, but is tailored to your specific Oracle E-Business Suite solution. Unlike other implementation toolkits, the AIM 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 Advantage

The AIM Advantage offering gives you all the tools you need to make your implementation successful by providing guidelines for: Business Process Architecture Business Requirements Definition Business Requirements Mapping Application and Technical Architecture Module Design and Build Data Conversion Documentation Business System Testing Adoption and Learning Performance Testing Production Migration

Keeping you at the Leading Edge

AIM Advantage 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. AIM Advantage also incorporates Oracle's business process realignment techniques known as PERM (Packaged Enabled Re-engineering). PERM provides a consistent framework for your project's business process realignment efforts. Consequently, you can be sure that when going live, applications and their corresponding business processes are optimally configured.
Helping your Team

AIM Advantage 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

Pricing and Availability

Oracle AIM Advantage is available for purchase from your local Oracle Consulting representative.
Oracle Consulting

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For more information

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