IBM Technology Expert Labs PLAN Sustainability Sterling Order Management Offering (OMS) on Azure

IBM Sterling Order Management is a robust platform designed to give B2B and B2C organizations the power to innovate and differentiate. Our global subject matter experts will assist you on designing and planning your deployment of the latest version of Sterling Order management, based on structured services approach and deep product expertise focused on achieving your business objectives.

Our PLAN Sterling Order Management Offering can involve version to version upgrades, help you modernize and utilize certified containers, help you adopt a hybrid / micro services approach, and/or even implement a loosely coupled micro services OMS solution.

Business Challenges (that will be discussed in the briefing) may include:

• IT cost pressures – clients looking to reducing total cost of ownership for their OMS solution • Need to move to a micro services architectures as part of an overall enterprise strategy • Performance and reliability concerns with a growing load on the Order Management Systems which may be hard to manage in-house • Order Management Systems that have been customized more and more over the last years are exponentially more difficult to manage and control

Market Drivers (that will be discussed in the briefing) may include:

• Increase velocity of change and resiliency: Clients are looking into a move to a more efficient deployment of their OMS solution, save cost while raising quality and performance • Existing Sterling clients who are facing End of Support for v. 9.5.X (which has been official as of April 2022) so migration focus needs to be prioritized • Improve the end consumer experience and accelerate business operations by leveraging cloud • Desire to upgrade to a more modern architecture with micro services but in-house IT are not sure how to tackle the execution

Outcomes Desired for the offering (that will be discussed in the briefing) may include:

1. Findings & Recommendations
2. High Level Design
3. High Level Project Plan (Time Line, Resources, Indicative Cost)

Key Activities of the offering (that will be discussed in the briefing) may include:

A. Vision Assessment and Definition This process involves assessing the high-level OMS solution, current and future solution/architecture and objectives, deployment strategies, defining the high-level target solution, and creating strategy documents along with high-level functional and architectural blueprints.

B. Detailed Assessment of the Current Situation The assessment will cover applications, custom development, CI/CD processes, databases, integrations, network topology, security measures, user management, non-functional requirements (NFRs), testing frameworks, and operations, culminating in the production of a detailed assessment document.

C. Plan the Modernization Define detailed target solution and topology, outline dependencies, devise migration and cut-over plans, generate functional and technical architecture, and formulate a comprehensive project plan

Prerequisites:

It is expected that you have an existing version of Sterling OMS or acquiring it and you are looking to modernize.

To acquire IBM Sterling Order Management on Azure please go here:

https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/ibm-usa-ny-armonk-hq-6275750-ibmcloud-asperia.ibm-sterling-order-management-client-managed?tab=Overview

Value Proposition:

The PLAN Sterling OMS Modernization Offering provides clients the benefit of ensuring the Sterling OMS implementation will support these key elements and ensure success on Azure or hybrid cloud deployment models:

1. Strategic alignment with business objectives
2. Effective allocation of resources
3. Risk mitigation during or after implementation
4. Proper stakeholder communication
5. Clear outcomes identified to measure success

With IBM's deep, product related skills and multitudes of customer engagements around the globe we can ensure that customers will benefit from learning from our best practices and leverage this on-going. Customers will benefit from any pre-built asset(s) our consultants have harvested throughout our global engagements to help accelerate you with your adoption and/or modernization with scalability on the Azure platform.