What We Do – Melbourne

Consulting Services

Activ8 IT's consultants have delivered PeopleSoft-based services for over 10 years.  Activ8 IT specialises across the PeopleSoft product range and underlying technology, including:

• Financial Management
• Human Capital Management, including Global Payroll
• Supply Chain Management & Supplier Relationship Management
• Customer Relationship Management

The majority of Activ8's work is in the area of Financials. This experience has included a large number of implementation, upgrade and development projects, from very early versions through to the latest releases.

Activ8 IT has also provided Support & Maintenance services, Training services, Technology services (e.g. Architecture Design, Integration, Portal, Middleware etc) and Business Consulting services to support the above work.

Implementation Services

Activ8 IT's consultants are experienced with all phases of a new product implementation. Our Consulting professionals have experience in navigating the complete project life cycle, not just participating in a limited piece of the project. This end to end experience provides our staff an advantage during the project, as they help to identify and avoid potential pitfalls in your approach. Our consultants have been involved in almost every Australian PeopleSoft implementation over the past 10 to 12 years and are able to offer the highest level of expertise across all areas of PeopleSoft implementations including:  

• Project Management
• Change Management
• Fit/Gap Analysis
• Business Process Analysis
• Configuration and Prototype
• Infrastructure Development  and support
• Application Development
• Data Conversion and Validation
• Testing and Validation
• Production
• Post-Production Support

Upgrade Services

Activ8 IT consultants have significant upgrade experience. Our consultants can help explain the benefits or risks associated with replacing or updating your own customised objects. In addition to hands-on object upgrade efforts, Activ8 IT can also assist your company in defining a roadmap for short and long-term upgrade goals.  

We also specialise in the execution of the upgrade/compare and object migration process as well as:

• Upgrade Roadmap Strategy and Planning
• Customisation Analysis and Product Feature Review
• Upgrade Project Planning
• Hardware and Software Readiness Review
• Data Archival and Deletion
• On-Site Object Upgrade / PeopleCode Customisation
• Upgrade Script Tuning
• Upgrade Acceptance Testing
• Go-Live Cutover

Development Services

Our PeopleSoft technical consultants have extensive experience in the underlying application functionality and data structure of PeopleSoft Financials, as well as the use of the full PeopleTools development tool set including Application Engine, SQR and PeopleCode. Aligning our experience and approved development tools, and managing change through formalised development methods, we can help enhance the functionality of the base application to match your unique business requirements.  

We are able to deliver customised solutions on-site or off-site on either a time and materials basis on a fixed cost basis and can cover the entire development process from gathering business requirements through build, test, implement, tune and support.

Support Services

We can provide highly experienced, post-production support resources at reduced long-term rates. Our experience has shown that some customers suffer with staff turnover typically after a difficult implementation or upgrade. Activ8 IT professionals will assist your team by providing that maintenance footprint and assuring smooth operation of your PeopleSoft systems in production.

Support services include:

• Product patch/fix application
• System monitoring and proactive tuning support
• Fail and fix

Activ8 IT can structure support services to the clients needs. This can include providing resources to augment in-house support teams through to managing every aspect of a PeopleSoft environment. Support can be provided on-site or remotely as required using the client's ticket logging ticket and help desk or our own.

Patching Service

Staying current with PeopleSoft patches and fixes is one of the biggest challenges faced by IT departments. The common trade-off is to slow down user-driven needs in order to keep the technical environment reasonably current. We can help make this trade-off unnecessary. Activ8 IT offers a unique service to manage all patches and fixes required on your PeopleSoft applications. The offering covers all PeopleSoft modules.

Some of the key functions embedded in this service are:

• Upgrade and maintain your configuration database to PeopleSoft standards.
• Maintain database of all PeopleSoft bundle releases.
• Analyse bundles in depth.
• Map areas impacted by bundle to your environment.
• Perform impact analysis on customised code and retrofit as required.
• Apply patches in development and help promote to production.
• Update documentation.

Client Mentoring

Activ8 IT offers a mentoring service to facilitate knowledge transfer between our consultants and the client.  We can supply experienced functional and technical consultants to work with your internal resources on your system to help them develop their PeopleSoft knowledge and skills.

Our consultants can be engaged on a long term basis or on an adhoc basis to provide your resources assistance and coaching with solutions design, specification, coding, testing and performance tuning right through to implementation and post implementation support.