Applications

Our Services

Our comprehensive application service offerings include various Oracle products and are tailored to meet your business requirements. With a proven methodology and an experienced pool of senior Oracle Application consultants, we deliver high quality, cost-effective Oracle application services.

Four Pillars uses a blended delivery model to provide the right mix of onshore & offshore that meets your specific requirements. We work with enterprises that consider sourcing as the most efficient way to get reliable IT services by providing experts based on cost, capacity, and coverage.

We maintain mission-critical & complicated applications that cannot go down for your business. Our application team can assist you with planning, design, develop, implementation, upgrade, rollout or manage your applications.

Our comprehensive Applications offerings:

• Applications Managed Services
• Applications Professional Services
• Applications  Cloud Services
• Applications Assessments and HealthChecks
• Applications Governance, Risks, Compliance

We accept valuable operational reliability at a fixed cost regardless of size and complexity of business applications environments for multiple lengths and depths you define.

We have extensive technical experience with various Oracle E-Business applications releases, and our expertise goes beyond core modules.

Major Applications Support:  

Managed Services

Your company invested significant resources into your ERP solution, and your business partners expect it to keep up with the growing needs of the organization.

Through small, periodic health checks, we take care of the maintenance required to keep Oracle working efficiently. Our comprehensive subject matter expertise allows us to effectively assess pain points and analyze business processes, identifying opportunities for efficiencies beneficial to the whole organization.

Enhance your Internal DBA team with on-Demand DBAs. Our managed services team can be an extension of yours with greater flexibility and less expense. 

Professional Services

Fourpillars Professional Services is a comprehensive consulting service for Oracle’s suite of technology products including Oracle applications and provides end-end implementation services, including project management and avaiable onsite and offsite.

Our team consists of some of the former Oracle Professional Services employees with technical skills in a wide range of areas, including:

Oracle EBS Services Overview

• Professional Consulting
• Development
• Strategic Consulting

Cloud Migration

Are planning on moving your enterprise application to the public cloud?

Our managed infrastructure services can get you there safely and securely.

The migration to cloud infrastructure is a business strategic choice and cost is not the only factor driving IT to choose cloud-based solutions.

Other factors include:

• Existing ERP hosting contract coming up for renewal with a lock in period
• Expensive hardware refresh
• Not able to migrate due older O/S and Applications Stack
• New ERP implementation with rapid deployment requirements
• Mergers

We understand the opportunities and the challenges associated with the cloud and will deliver cloud services that specifically tailored to your Oracle E-Business Suite requirements and application workloads. We will also guide you through the transformation process including the complex issues of security, architecture, and governance.

Replace CapEx with OpEx – You can start an Oracle E-Business Suite implementation or project on cloud wihtout any upfront cost or commitment for migration and upgrade professional services (Our cloud partner will provide compute, storage, or network infrastructure at no cost until go-alive).

Service Offerings:

Competencies

Advise – Based on current architecture and workload, will recommend the most suitable architecture for the cloud model, public, private, or hybrid and develop a roadmap with detailed next steps.

Enablement – We will help you develop an ROI & TCO for the application migration to the cloud. Our experts will work with your IT teams to build security, infrastructure, and workload requirements for your cloud deployment.

Implementation -Our experts will configure the cloud applications including install, migrate,  integrate, testing, and support.

Oracle E-Business Suite

Oracle E Business Suite is the most comprehensive suite of integrated global business applications that provides the most adaptable global business platform. It helps to provide the most customer-focused applications strategy, which is further complemented by the integrated business intelligence portfolio.

 

Four Pillars founded to provide services for Oracle E-Business Suite, and this remains a cornerstone of our business, and we extended our cloud migration support to other Oracle applications such as Hyperion, Demantra, Transportation Management (OTM).

Our comprehensive Applications service offerings include various Oracle products and are tailored to meet your business requirements. With a proven methodology and an experienced pool of senior Oracle Applications consultants, we deliver high quality, cost-effective Oracle Applications services

Key Offerings

R12 Upgrade Services

Four Pillars Oracle upgrade services are designed to enable customers to stay ahead with latest Oracle EBS R12 applications through a faster and easier approach. Our proven experience, time-tested methods, market leading practices and automated tools and accelerators ensure on time and on budget experience.

We closely work with you to strategize your Oracle R12 upgrade roadmap and streamline processes such as Manufacturing and Supply Chain, Financials, Human Capital and Customer Relationship using Oracle R12 global upgrade capabilities.

In addition, we also assist customers with our value added consulting and best practice recommendations, who are still deciding whether to upgrade or migrate to cloud or deploy a hybrid co-existence model through Oracle Cloud applications for running their future business.

Our Oracle EBS Technical Upgrade provides a fixed price solution and is designed for organizations seeking a rapid, no frills upgrade to Oracle R12.1 or R12.2.

Our Approach for Oracle R12 Upgrade Assessment –

• Four Pillars’s  Probe tool offers our clients a clinical approach to execute a reliable and cost-effective Oracle R12 upgrade. The Probe tool suite provides: 
  • Complete diagnostics and impact assessment of custom objects on the source environment without having to install the target upgrade Oracle version
  • Will identify CEMLIs/customization footprint and mitigate the risks well ahead of the upgrade project. The automate processes help reduce the effort and upgrade cost.
• A pre-upgrade assessment that defines the project scope, budget and business impact
• Recommendations for a technology roadmap, technical optimization and risk assessment
• Pre-defined templates, reusable components and use of proprietary accelerators for rapid migration and faster deployment
• Change Management
• Information on where the changes are likely to occur
• Categorization of complexities
• 30-40% effort and cost reduction as compared to traditional upgrades.

Why Four Pillars?

Domain knowledge – Deep domain technical knowledge across Oracle EBS components

Accelerated Methodology – Our Efficient, Zero risk, Proven Upgrade Methodology with automation showing better results with 30% downtime reduction and cost effective

Oracle Upgrade Experience – Experience of having done more than 10+ Oracle application upgrades.

Automated Upgrade Tool –Framework for R12 upgrade ensuring minimum disruption to Business.

Archiving Services

Oracle Applications need ILM, Information Lifecycle Management, services over the time to manage the database growth,  performance, disk costs and regulatory compliance.

4PI offers Oracle EBS ILM program that streamlines application databases and helps long-term application performance and availability without increasing infrastructure costs.

Why Database Archiving?

Solutions:

Oracle ILM: Oracle provides out of the box solution but has limitations and not cost effect.

Third party solutions – There are few solutions available for Oracle EBS Applications, and are licensed products and has good ROI over the years.

Seeded Solutions – There are few solutions available for Oracle EBS Applications, and are licensed products and has good ROI over the years.

ILM solutions will migrate less frequently accessed data to a separate database, and then purge the production database to reduce overall data capacity.  DBAs need to perform Database re-org to regain the unused Disk space.

The Application end-users will have access to Archive data using Database links, and end-users do not need to perform any additional steps than selecting required responsibilities.