Oracle Exadata Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Oracle Exadata Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Oracle Exadata related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Oracle Exadata specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Oracle Exadata Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 852 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Oracle Exadata improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 852 standard requirements:


1. Does the mode of each KPI being displayed express the information that directly supports your need without the needs of you to perform conversion or calculation in your head?
   
   

2. Has the access route been checked for clearances of the rack, in particular, the minimum width and height requirements for all doors on the route?
   
   

3. When an Exadata storage server hard disk failure alert is received, what manual action must you take to restore the system to full redundancy?
   
   

4. Has the access route been checked for clearance of the rack, including the minimum width and height requirements for all doors on the route?
   
   

5. Why is performing an incremental backup of data from an Exadata Storage Server likely faster than backing up data from normal storage?
   
   

6. Where should adapter configurations be validated before adding or rearranging adapters on a Power Enterprise Server?
   
   

7. Will your customer be able to patch the various components of the Exadata Database Machine on the same schedule?
   
   

8. Which operating systems is capable of using the compression and decompression technology to resolve the issue?
   
   

9. What measures are in place to protect from data corruption and unrecoverable and intentional damage to data?
   
   

10. Does the system include a Website or online application available to and for the use of the general public?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Oracle Exadata book in PDF containing 852 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Oracle Exadata self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Oracle Exadata Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Oracle Exadata areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Oracle Exadata Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Oracle Exadata projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Oracle Exadata Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Oracle Exadata project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Team Performance Assessment: Individual task proficiency and team process behavior: what is important for team functioning?
   
   

2. Lessons Learned: What worked well or did not work well, either for this Oracle Exadata project or for the Oracle Exadata project team?
   
   

3. WBS Dictionary: Is budgeted cost for work performed calculated in a manner consistent with the way work is planned?
   
   

4. Schedule Management Plan: Are software metrics formally captured, analyzed and used as a basis for other Oracle Exadata project estimates?
   
   

5. Procurement Audit: What are your procurement processes with contractors?
   
   

6. Change Management Plan: Is there support for this application(s) and are the details available for distribution?
   
   

7. Source Selection Criteria: What are the guidelines regarding award without considerations?
   
   

8. Stakeholder Management Plan: How many Oracle Exadata project staff does this specific process affect?
   
   

9. Project or Phase Close-Out: In addition to assessing whether the Oracle Exadata project was successful, it is equally critical to analyze why it was or was not fully successful. Are you including this?
   
   

10. Risk Audit: Are regular safety inspections made of buildings, grounds and equipment?


 
Step-by-step and complete Oracle Exadata Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Oracle Exadata project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Oracle Exadata project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Oracle Exadata project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Oracle Exadata project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Oracle Exadata project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Oracle Exadata project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Oracle Exadata project with this in-depth Oracle Exadata Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Oracle Exadata projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Oracle Exadata and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Oracle Exadata investments work better.

This Oracle Exadata All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.