Our Services
Enterprise Performance Management
Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) is not simply a sophisticated enterprise technology. It is a way for the CFO’s team to visualize and run the business. Each function within the team will use the EPM toolset in different ways, with different data needs.
S&M Performance leverages the most relevant concepts from finance transformation best practices to ensure that when an EPM application is put in place, it is part of a wider digital transformation. Implementing a tool can help automate processes, but the greatest value is delivered when the technology is built around an ideal future state process.
Here at S&M Performance, we partner with our customers to maximize project ROI and deliver a process and technology that will be adopted by analysts and executives alike.
Digital Finance Transformation
Digital finance transformation focuses on the technology enabled functional transformation through cloud (and to a lesser extent on premise) platforms. The solution mainly focuses on the application landscape and capitalizes on cloud technology platforms such as ERP, EPM ; and Low Code / No Code from different vendors such as Oracle, Board, IBM, and others.
Digital finance transformation addresses services such as solution architecture, platform selection, platform evolution and roadmap, functional and technical requirements definition, technical design, build, data migration, testing, training, post implementation support, product lifecycle management, QA, post implementation reviews and health checks. The solution also includes target-operating model and business process transformation in addition to change management that is typically done in collaboration with firm experts in Finance, HR / Change, Procurement, Sales and Marketing. The solution also covers technology project and program management, tech PMO as well as AGILE / Scrum masters to support the delivery of complex enterprise systems and cloud transformation initiatives.
Strategic consulting
With any large software investment, once the hard work of selecting the right solution to realize your business outcomes is done, attention shifts to how to make those outcomes a reality:
- How to achieve your business case and ensure your business model aligns with Oracle Modern Best Practice
- How to achieve measurable success and demonstrate the value of your investment
- How to make sure you deliver quality to your teams and stakeholders
- And how to bring all your people—employees, customers and suppliers—on the journey with you to ensure engagement, understanding and adoption
At S&M Performance, we have a dedicated team of specialists who focus on optimizing business outcomes. We’re here to help you achieve your business case by identifying what measurable success looks like and how the Oracle platform will enable this.
Strategic consulting
Our strategic consulting team can help you with:
Strategy development and your Oracle roadmap
to help you understand ‘the why’ of your program or project. We’ll work with you to align your business strategy with a viable Oracle roadmap.
Business case development and benefits management plans
to help you analyze and articulate your business case with a clearly defined ROI and underpinning benefits management model, to ensure you realize the benefits both during and beyond the program timeframe.
Outcome mapping
While data and numbers can help many individuals make decisions, others need to see beyond the numbers to picture the reality of the business case once the future state is achieved. Here we help you map out your business outcomes across business objectives, operational effectiveness and the KPI scorecard. This will allow you to visualize challenges, how they will be resolved, and how we will measure success.
Leadership frameworks and leadership coaching
A transformation program can be daunting for even the most seasoned of leaders. Our leadership framework and coaching services help you understand the journey you’re about to take. We will equip you with tools and techniques that will allow you to thrive in your role of Senior Responsible Owner or Business Process Owner and help your wider leadership team understand their responsibilities and how they support your success.
Project Management
At S&M Performance, we understand that successful projects are the cornerstone of business growth and innovation. Our dedicated team of seasoned professionals is committed to delivering exceptional project management services tailored to meet the unique needs of your organization. With a proven track record of guiding diverse projects to success, we are your trusted partner in achieving operational excellence.
Key Features of Our Project Management Services:
Resource Optimization:
We maximize the utilization of resources, ensuring that time, budget, and manpower are efficiently allocated. Our focus on optimization leads to cost-effective and timely project delivery.
Quality
Assurance:
Quality is non-negotiable. Our team implements rigorous quality assurance processes throughout the project lifecycle to guarantee that deliverables meet or exceed expectations.
Adaptive Methodologies:
S&M Performance embraces both traditional and agile project management methodologies. Our flexibility allows us to tailor our approach to the specific requirements of each project, ensuring optimal results.
Resource Optimization:
We maximize the utilization of resources, ensuring that time, budget, and manpower are efficiently allocated. Our focus on optimization leads to cost-effective and timely project delivery.
Quality
Assurance:
Quality is non-negotiable. Our team implements rigorous quality assurance processes throughout the project lifecycle to guarantee that deliverables meet or exceed expectations.
Adaptive Methodologies:
S&M Performance embraces both traditional and agile project management methodologies. Our flexibility allows us to tailor our approach to the specific requirements of each project, ensuring optimal results.
Continuous Improvement:
We believe in the power of learning from every project. Post-project evaluations and feedback loops enable us to refine our processes continually, enhancing our ability to drive success in future endeavors.
Managed services
At S&M Performance, we offer a structured, yet flexible, set of managed services for the ongoing management of your Oracle estate, working hand-in-hand with your own teams and other third parties as required.
Our approach embraces ITIL 4 service governance, while delivering against the high velocity IT needs of our customers. Our three step service design approach provides you with a trusted yet personalized service:
- Corrective & preventive measures
- Evolutions
- Administration
- On-site or remote support
- Functional operation
- User support
- Remote operation
- Supervision
- Configuration management
Oracle applications or core technology, on-premises or in the cloud—if it’s Oracle, we have you covered.
Oracle Upgrades
Some Oracle releases are seen as ‘bulletproof’ and businesses are reluctant to move from them. But many of these fundamentals, sitting untouched, are now de-supported and in some cases over ten years old. However, the perceived effort and risk in terms of time and exposure to issues often stop upgrades happening.
Manageability, security and Performance are all reasons Oracle delivers upgrades. This means you might be able to get more out of your existing software and hardware without doing anything else. We can help you cut through the complexity so that you see the highest value and most immediate returns from your existing Oracle investments.
