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A 10-Step Playbook for ERP Modernization & Application Landscape Optimization

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ERP modernization is no longer optional—it’s a strategic requirement for enterprises relying on Oracle EBS or JD Edwards. But modernization isn’t simply about moving to Oracle Fusion Cloud. The real value lies in optimizing the entire application landscape: removing technical debt, simplifying integrations, standardizing data, and aligning processes to modern cloud-ready operating models.

The eBook “A 10-Step Playbook for ERP Modernization & Application Landscape Optimization” provides a disciplined, roadmap-driven approach to help organizations modernize with clarity, reduce risk, and build a scalable digital core that supports long-term transformation.

What You’ll Learn:

Establishing a Clear Modernization Vision
Understand how to define business-driven modernization goals, align IT and business stakeholders, and set measurable KPIs tied to agility, cost, compliance, user experience, and operational efficiency.

Rationalizing Your Application Portfolio
Discover how to inventory, assess, and streamline the applications surrounding your ERP—including bolt-ons, spreadsheets, custom tools, and legacy systems—to eliminate sprawl and reduce future-state complexity.

Managing Customizations and Technical Debt
Learn how to evaluate all custom code, classify what to retire or rebuild, and reduce long-term maintenance overhead by aligning with standard functionality and modern architectural principles.

Mapping and Optimizing Integrations
Explore methods to catalog your integration landscape, identify bottlenecks, evaluate fragile point-to-point connections, and design scalable future-state integration patterns using APIs and event-driven frameworks.

Redesigning Business Processes for the Cloud
Avoid replicating legacy inefficiencies. Follow best practices to reengineer core workflows (O2C, P2P, R2R, SCM) to match cloud-native standards, automate where possible, and simplify end-to-end operations.

Building a Business Case & ROI Model
Strengthen executive buy-in with a fact-based financial model that quantifies cost savings, operational benefits, risk reduction, and long-term strategic advantages.

Planning Phased Modernization Waves
Learn how to sequence modernization in controlled waves—by business unit, geography, or function—to minimize disruption and validate integrations, data, and processes through pilots.

Improving Governance, Testing, and Change Management
Understand why most ERP programs fail due to weak governance. Learn how to build modernization steering committees, design automation-driven testing pipelines, and enable strong user adoption programs.

This eBook helps organizations shift from a migration-only mindset to a modernization-first strategy that delivers measurable business outcomes.

Organizations that follow this structured approach achieve:

  • Lower TCO through reduced customizations and simplified architecture
  • Faster implementation timelines due to improved data quality and process alignment
  • Fewer integration failures and reduced downtime
  • Better compliance, audit readiness, and reporting accuracy
  • A scalable digital foundation ready for AI, automation, and future cloud innovations

Download our ebook “A 10-Step Playbook for ERP Modernization & Application Landscape Optimization” and take the next step toward a structured, risk-aware, and insight-driven modernization journey that prepares your business for the future of ERP.