Innovation Journal - Cognizant

RETHINK - CUPID
Customers need to be 100% sure and have perfect understanding of
the differences between the two versions. This difference is often
referred as a “change repository.”
If you have ever moved from one home to another, you would know
how difficult it can be to fit your old belongings in the new place. The
That’s exactly what our Oracle Solutions Practice consultants
same is true for anyone migrating to a new PC or a laptop. Now
implemented in CUPID. The change repository is created when the
imagine the time, effort and money required to migrate an Enterprise
CUPID solution scans for customized objects in both versions of
Application like Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) to the next version.
Oracle EBS. The change repository can then be queried, and reports
These complex systems have an average of 50,000 or more packages
can be generated that represent the state of the impact, and migration
per source code, where the size of every package can vary from 2KB
complexity in multiple dimensions. This report discovers the precise
to 4GB.
percentage of customizations
made by the functional
Consultants within Cognizant’s
CUPID reduces effort in as-is analysis and technical impact domain, the application
Oracle Solutions Practice have
analysis by up to 70%.
module, the technology, the
diligently performed this tedious task
complexity involved, and the
of migrating blocks of information that
effort estimation.
are referred to as “objects” from older
versions of Oracle EBS to a newer version for many clients. The task at
In short, CUPID automates the technical impact analysis of custom
hand was to identify the impact of transferring customized objects from
objects in Oracle EBS during an upgrade process, thereby reducing
the older version to the newer one.
manual effort of a large custom-code base. The tool helps identify
custom code that requires modifications on the current deployed
Each enterprise would have customized Oracle EBS to suit their
version before migrating to the new version.
business needs. Hence, a technical impact analysis involving careful
inspection of all the source code, including 50,000+ objects to be
With the insights gained from performing multiple migrations, our
transferred, could be a daunting task. With the release of Fusion
consultants packaged the tool with many features, including:
Applications, which can only comply with Oracle EBS V12, all
customers are forced to migrate, making this pressing task even more
Analyzes the current environment, customizations, extensions and
tedious.
modifications in a structured manner.
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