2e2 is one of the fastest growing IT services businesses in the UK with 1,300 employees and £250m turnover. As a systems innovator 2e2 is focussed on creating real business advantage for its clients and has a rich heritage in delivering Core Business Systems to over 250 major enterprise customers over the past 15 years.  2e2’s is able to deliver an end-to-end solution through its four key service delivery areas; Unified Communications, Infrastructure, Managed Services and Hosting and Business Applications. 

Within its Business Applications division 2e2 focus on implementing Oracle & PeopleSoft alongside its specialist skills in Microsoft Dynamics (AX & CRM), SharePoint, Biztalk and MOSS.

2e2 was the first Oracle Advantage Partner in the UK. It has 12+ years experience of delivering the entire project lifecycle – from initial business idea and conception, through to implementation, development, testing, training and go-live. 2e2 have successfully delivered over 200 Oracle & PeopleSoft projects and won more than 20 Oracle awards. 

2e2 have one of the largest PeopleSoft practices in the UK delivering both HR and Financial solutions to both public and private clients.  Through its infrastructure and service delivery consultants 2e2 is able to deliver Oracle technology projects and perform a rationalisation of a customers Oracle Licence estate, concentrating on ensuring compliance and optimising the future licence requirements.

2e2 is also the software author of the highly regarded E-Business Suite configuration management application – ConfigSnapshot

Introducing ConfigSnapshot!
Effective management of Oracle E-Business Suite setup is essential. Whether implementing or extending applications, performing support or undertaking patching and upgrades, organisations must ensure work can be done efficiently, accurately and with minimum risk – while maximising the benefit to the business. The complexity of the Oracle E-Business Suite, from both functional and technical perspectives, makes this a time consuming and costly process – and one that is highly prone to human error.

Too often we hear phrases such as “It works on the test environment” or “It worked two weeks ago” – usually heralding a “needle-in-a-haystack” hunt to work out either what is different between two environments or what has changed since a process last worked successfully.

As organisations implement functionality it is critical that the setup to support it is correctly managed across multiple environments. Organisations have increasing requirements to control their application setup both to ensure access to data is properly secured and that any changes to setup have been authorised.

ConfigSnapshot has been developed to address exactly these types of problems. It is an easy to use application dramatically reducing the time required for such tasks, increasing their accuracy and minimising the risks normally associated with them.

Features include:

• Ability to automatically generate BR100 style configuration documents (modules and technical development work).
• Create configuration baselines to track any changes to configuration settings from a point in time
• Clearly identify your configuration settings separately from the Oracle seeded values
• Directly compare configuration settings of the Oracle modules and technical components across environments, operating units, sets of books, Inventory orgs etc
• View patch impact – focus testing
• Identify upgrade impact – reduce risk and uncertainty
• Review and track key Oracle licence compliance metrics
• Identify and track customisations
• Audit & Compliance support – user access control/ visibility, configuration change tracking etc
• Easy to install (5 minutes) and intuitive to use
• Cost effective (pay for just the modules required)
• Etc

Considering an Upgrade?
Upgrading the Oracle E-Business Suite can be a complicated process and can have a significant impact on the existing E-Business Suite deployment. ConfigSnapshot gives you quick and clear visibility of configuration settings and will identify new configuration fields that will be introduced. Other capabilities relevant to the upgrade process include:

• Identify configuration fields that will be introduced as part of upgrading to R12
• Help identify customisations – pre and post upgrade
• Allow you to quickly review existing setup (filter out seeded Oracle data, colour code other configuration to aid understanding)
• Compare configuration (application configuration, technical components (i.e. workflow) and schema details) across versions – check upgrade impact/ confirm it has reach the same end point per previous upgrade iterations etc
• Generate configuration documentation (apps & tech) in MS Word, Excel, HTML or XML
• Use configuration baselines (point in time copies of Configuration settings) to manage and control the introduction of enhancements etc
• Easily review user access, profile option settings, request sets, report groups, new functions etc
• Patch impact analysis – if applying patches it will identify areas impacted and allow you to focus/ prioritise testing
• Issue resolution – facilitate the issue resolution process by rapidly identifying any configuration changes or inconsistencies