PeopleSoft ELM Upgrade

The client, is one of the world's leading research and teaching university.

The University offers varied and frequent training to its students. The trainings are classroom /instructor led trainings that are carried out by the staff. PeopleSoft ELM manages the scheduling, management and co-ordination of such trainings using an optimal solution that would enable student to sign-up for these online courses.

The university sought to leverage the wealth of experience and skill sets of its team by upgrading from its current version of PeopleSoft ELM 8.9 to 9.1 across its campus operations.

Client: Leading University based out of Bay Area, California

Source: PeopleSoft ELM 8.9 to 9.1, tool 8.52

Upgrade Complexity:

• Integration with Campus solutions which is running on older version and is not upgraded.
• Upgrade all integrated instances to same People Tools release to bring down the issues around integrations.

Upgrade Approach:

Analysis

• Compare Report – Phase1
• Identified the list of customizations
• New functionality analysis
• Compare Report – Phase2
• Identified the list of customizations

Upgrade Passes

• Initial retrofit – DEV
• Test (1) & Migration to SIT2[Production copy]
• Test (2) & Migration to UAT2[production copy]
• Functional test & UAT test
• Go-Live
• Post Go-Live support

Success Factors:

• Smooth transition for users
• Status Meetings
• On-time delivery
• Updated testing documents
• Document tracking
• Planned work allocation and transparent status reporting