Project teams hire consultants of two types Functional consultants/Business Analysts (B.A.’s) Technical Consultants Functional Consultants or B.A.’s are the liaison between the project team and the business. They gather and analyze the requirements, design, configure & test the solution, and support the business once the project has gone live. Technical Consultants allow the project to implement customized functionality; to adjust Oracle standard features to suit the business … [Read more...]
How are you preparing to transition your skills from Oracle EBS to Oracle ERP Cloud?
This question was asked to me in Quora.com and below was my answer: I’m writing here about transitioning functional skills from EBS to cloud. I am writing from the perspective of an EBS functional person who worked on EBS projects and wants to know how their role will change. Despite Oracle really pushing Cloud there are not a huge number of big implementations yet, so information is not that easy to come by. A few things we know about Cloud that affect skills used: * No … [Read more...]
What does an Oracle Functional Consultant do?
This question was asked to me in Quora.com and below was my answer: An Oracle Functional Consultant works on the set of packaged software solutions called Oracle E-Business Suite(EBS) , or its more recent version; Oracle Fusion/Oracle Cloud. Oracle EBS runs on-premise, which means the software + data live predominantly on client's servers, it can also be hosted on the Oracle Cloud. Oracle Fusion mostly runs in the Cloud. From the perspective of the functional consultant, the hosting is … [Read more...]
How Can I Change my Career from an Accountant to a Functional Consultant Oracle or SAP?
This question was asked to me in Quora.com and below was my answer: There is a path from business super user into functional consulting in Oracle. I work with many ex business users who now manage the delivery of Oracle projects. N.B. All of these people had Oracle E-Business suite Super user knowledge levels. I always say there are six key skills of an Oracle Functional Consultant; these are also the key phases of an Oracle E-business suite project. Objectives This is capturing the … [Read more...]
How to Identify and Map Current Technical, Support or Business skills into the Oracle Functional role
Let’s talk about functional consulting. I’m going to introduce you to two new tools, one about the project lifecycle and one called the functional quadrant. What these two tools do for you is that they give you an idea of what a functional consultant does, they allow you to figure out, well, can I actually do any of the functional tasks already, they are going to give you confidence to approach job descriptions, recruiters, and hiring managers with a little bit more idea of what you’re … [Read more...]
Support Roadmap into Functional Consultant
Let’s talk about transferring into functional from the support consulting world. What does a Functional Consultant do anyway? The key skills are Objectives, Requirements, Design, Build, Test, and Transition, from an e-Business project point of view these are also the 6 key phases of an e-Business project. So where support comes in is the post go-live phase or the business as usual activity phase. You might do your objectives in January, your requirements in February and March. Design in … [Read more...]
Why would an SME attend a Marketing Conference? DMX Digital Marketing Conference 2014 Review
When operating as independent consultants we are in fact running small businesses, and I'm very interested in increasing my business skills whenever possible. I consider marketing your skills as a key component of independent consulting, and I was searching for more information on this area, so the DMX conference ( http://bit.ly/1igZPco ) seemed like the perfect way to find out more about it. N.B Also see below for my Top Ten Marketing Tips for IT Consultants. … [Read more...]
