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Oracle UPK was the main tool used to facilitate training, onboarding and user support for Oracle EBS. But Oracle UPK’s premier support ends December 31, 2022 as described here, which is problematic because Oracle has assured EBS customers that their systems will continue to be supported and enhanced through at least 2031. In the meantime, your workforce will continue to need support in using EBS.
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To dive deeper into the SOP vs Work Instructions, EPS figures out some elements that need to be compared: definition, features, roles, pros, and cons.

Oracle UPK was the main tool used to facilitate training, onboarding and user support for Oracle EBS. But Oracle UPK’s premier support ends December 31, 2022 as described here, which is problematic because Oracle has assured EBS customers that their systems will continue to be supported and enhanced through at least 2031. In the meantime, your workforce will continue to need support in using EBS.

Effective change management with digital adoption is not a one-and-done process. Three vital components must be present for successful change management.

What should be considered when assessing UPK alternative digital adoption tool? We have organized some additional resources to help you understand in 5 mins.

Oracle EBS will be around until 2031. How to improve user performance.

JOLT Advantage discusses the digital adoption solution, Opus, from Epilogue Systems

As someone who relies on Oracle UPK (User Productivity Kit) to drive user adoption, enhance employee productivity, and improve ROI for your Oracle EBS, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft and other applications, will you and your organization be ready for UPK’s end of life?

The Workday Adoption Kit is comprised of inefficient tools and methods when it comes to supporting users and the training functions of Workday customers.

The Digital Adoption Solution Buyer’s Guide lays out how a Digital Adoption Solution adds value to digital transformation initiatives and enterprise application deployments, and helps organizations identify what type of Digital Adoption Solution can help them achieve their goals.

Explore how to author user content that engages your workers and how contextual guidance can accelerate their E-learning.

Electronic Performance Support Systems is one of the digital adoption solutions available to and easily accessible by each employee.

Across different digital transformation use cases are the same adoption mistakes that hinder organizations’ full realization of digital transformation’s potential, including: not focusing on adoption past the critical first three to five months; not planning for project fatigue; or failing to train users when they need it most—in application.

If your users struggle with retention of new skills and content, then a performance support system might be exactly what you need. Studies show that a tremendous amount of time and energy goes towards searching for, reorganizing, and relearning information, tasks, and skills. In this video, we go over how a performance support system helps eliminate wasted time, reduces initial training, and increases organizational productivity.

Most times, microlearning is delivered to an audience via rich media formats and is accessible on multiple types of devices, like smartphones, tablets, PCs, laptops, etc. With the right Digital Adoption Solution (DAS) in place, it becomes possible to deliver microlearning material in real time to meet the needs of your audience.

If you’re serious about nailing your ROI on your software investment, it’s time to get serious about deploying a performance support platform.

Do more with less – most companies have this goal, but it rarely works out as planned. But what if Training and L&D pros were empowered to consistently deliver better outcomes while reducing training costs? In this video, we’ll explore 3 options – leverage microlearning strategies, engage internal SMEs, and improve through analytics – to help you do just that. So if you want to learn how to reduce training costs and improve training outcomes, watch this video today!

Despite high levels of investment, almost 80 percent of companies are falling short of achieving user adoption success with new software deployments. Here are 4 ways the right user onboarding software can deliver higher adoption rates.

The digital workplace will keep developing, along with digital adoption technology, to support this paradigm.

Here are the four trends I expect we’ll begin seeing as technology and HR come together to usher in a new era of digital-first workplaces.

If you’re serious about nailing your ROI on your software investment, it’s time to get serious about deploying a performance support platform.

No application launch is complete without a clear roadmap of your business’ post go-live plans. What’s that? You don’t have any post go-live plans? In that case, you’ll want to hold off on your launch. After all, we live in an age where no product is ever truly ‘complete’. You’ll need to figure out how to continuously support your product for months (if not years) to come. If you’re looking to learn how, exactly, you can establish high-quality post go-live plans, this video is for you.

Software rollouts are big, difficult, and complex projects. Sometimes, in the effort to hit a go-live date, creating training documentation for end users becomes an afterthought. But it doesn’t need to be. Check out these tips for creating software documentation that can effectively support your end users.

Contextual guidance provides a new solution for workplace productivity. Contextual guidance tools streamline application documentation, accelerate employee productivity, and help improve enterprise digital adoption. In this video, we share what those tools are and how they can improve workforce productivity.

Digital workforce disruption is driving reassessment and reorganization across organizations and reinventing how employees work within and outside them.

There are countless causes for resistance to change. As a business owner, the Managing Resistance to Change skill is required. Here is a comprehensive look.

Managing changes in your business can be difficult, especially when adopting new technologies. However, with the right skills and tools at your disposal, you can successfully implement and manage change in your organization.

Effective change management is essential to maximizing an organization’s adaptability. So, assessing organizational readiness for change is crucial.

Implement a plan to reduce and eventually eliminate the gap for the employee by the skill gap analysis. How could you conduct it effectively? Click and find out!

Entertaining and rewarding for the person who’s engaged gamification method to make your life easier but it still effectively. How can gamification do that?

E-learning has been growing apace for several years in many different fields. But, Do you know how to create an e-learning course thoughtfully? Let’s strike in.

Microlearning provides specific employee training courses. It can help you overcome training budget barriers and result in a positive ROI on training.

Do more with less – most companies have this goal, but it rarely works out as planned. But what if Training and L&D pros were empowered to consistently deliver better outcomes while reducing training costs? In this video, we’ll explore 3 options – leverage microlearning strategies, engage internal SMEs, and improve through analytics – to help you do just that. So if you want to learn how to reduce training costs and improve training outcomes, watch this video today!

Are you at a loss for how to effectively train your employees in a timely manner? Here are 7 must-know employee training strategies you should consider.

At Epilogue Systems, we have the best way to combat retirement brain drain in your company. Want to know what it is? Watch this video and find out!

Here are the four trends I expect we’ll begin seeing as technology and HR come together to usher in a new era of digital-first workplaces.

When it comes to hiring and retaining top talent, the onboarding process is one of the most important places you can focus your efforts. But how do you know if your spending your time doing the right things? Here are 4 employee onboarding mistakes to avoid.

Big changes are ahead for the digital workplace. Here are three predictions for 2019 by Mike Graham, CEO of Epilogue Systems.

In the business world, brain drain is, broadly speaking, the loss of institutional knowledge from an organization when a highly skilled or educated employee leaves for another job or retires. Highly-skilled baby boomer employees are retiring at a rate of 10,000 per day in the US. Fortunately, companies can employ several strategies to reduce brain drain in their organizations.

Some organizations attempt to reduce training costs by cutting training staff, or by outsourcing training efforts. But Epilogue Systems has a better idea!

A new tool that is emerging in eLearning is called contextual guidance. So what is contextual guidance? Simply put, it is the act of using the context of what a user is doing to guide them through a desired outcome.

What kind of Boosting Productivity Can We Expect? Do Cloud-based Digital Performance Support (DPS) technology is a versatile solution? Let’s find out!

You can’t improve what you can’t measure. So why don’t we measure user onboarding metrics for new enterprise applications? Here are 5 onboarding metrics you should be tracking (and why).

Performance guidance software, which guides users through the process of learning a software application

You’re just days from your go live date—and it’s pretty exciting. You’ve invested a lot of time and energy in selecting the right vendor to solve your business need. You’ve made sure you have a solid business case, including calculating ROI. And, you’ve worked with the C-suite, mid-level managers, and even end users to make sure you have buy-in across all levels of the organization.
But, wait. Before you put on the party hats and blow kazoos, is it possible you’ve forgotten one small, but critical detail?
Your post-launch success plan.

Most people forget 77 percent (!) of newly learned information in six days. A performance support system can help increase employee productivity by providing support at the point of work.
If you are considering Digital Performance Support (“DPS”) as part of the on-boarding and user experience for your application or application project, it’s important to know, as with any new capability, there’s a right way to do it and there’s definitely a wrong way.

Oracle EBS will be around until 2031. How to improve user performance.

As someone who relies on Oracle UPK (User Productivity Kit) to drive user adoption, enhance employee productivity, and improve ROI for your Oracle EBS, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft and other applications, will you and your organization be ready for UPK’s end of life?

Oracle UPK is a legacy electronic performance support system whose support will be discontinued in 2022. Epilogue Opus is a cloud-based Productivity Acceleration Platform and Digital Adoption Solution that provides next generation performance support to organizations, helping them improve application adoption, reduce user onboarding time, and gain insight into user performance with utilization analytics. Learn how UPK stacks up against Epilogue Opus in this comparison.

Not all application user onboarding and training strategies are created equal. Let’s take a look at some traditional approaches, as well as a more effective way of educating users and providing help when it’s needed most – at the point of work, with the aid of in-app guidance.

Epilogue Systems, the leader in workforce productivity acceleration and business process documentation, today announced they have partnered with Third Stage Consulting Group, the leading technology-agnostic digital transformation and ERP software consulting firm, led by industry veteran and digital transformation expert Eric Kimberling. This new partnership will help drive digital transformation success for high performing organizations through improved workforce digital adoption and critical business process documentation.

Philadelphia, PA – 30 July 2019 – Epilogue Systems, the leader in workforce productivity acceleration and business process documentation, is a finalist in the 2019 SaaS Awards Program. Their Digital Adoption Solution (DAS), Opus, has been shortlisted in the category “Best SaaS Newcomer.” This comes on the heels of Opus being named a Stevie® Award Winner in the 2019 American Business Awards® in the “Corporate Learning/Workforce Development Solution” category.

Epilogue Systems, the company dedicated to redefining workplace productivity in the enterprise, was named the winner of a Stevie® Award in The 17th Annual American Business Awards®. The company was honored in the “Corporate Learning/Workforce Development Solution” category for its cloud-based productivity acceleration platform, Opus.

PHILADELPHIA–Epilogue Systems, the company dedicated to redefining workplace productivity in the enterprise, today announces the launch of Opus, its new cloud-based productivity acceleration platform. In Opus, Epilogue Systems has reimagined its classic enterprise performance support tool and introduced a workplace productivity solution that will shift organizations’ focus from basic application onboarding and adoption to enhancing user and team performance across the global workforce.

Join Epilogue Systems and special guest Gary Wise of Human Performance Outfitters for a discussion of dynamic learning performance ecosystems, and how to unlock employee performance capability by providing support at the point of work.
Enterprise applications are complex. They can be difficult for users to adopt and learn how to use, slowing digital transformation and change management initiatives, and reducing your ROI on software investments. Opus, powered by Epilogue, is the first enterprise class cloud performance support solution. It provides in-application, context sensitive support to users when they most need it – at the point of work.

Oracle EBS will be around until 2031. How to improve user performance.

JOLT Advantage discusses the digital adoption solution, Opus, from Epilogue Systems

As someone who relies on Oracle UPK (User Productivity Kit) to drive user adoption, enhance employee productivity, and improve ROI for your Oracle EBS, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft and other applications, will you and your organization be ready for UPK’s end of life?

Oracle UPK is a legacy electronic performance support system whose support will be discontinued in 2022. Epilogue Opus is a cloud-based Productivity Acceleration Platform and Digital Adoption Solution that provides next generation performance support to organizations, helping them improve application adoption, reduce user onboarding time, and gain insight into user performance with utilization analytics. Learn how UPK stacks up against Epilogue Opus in this comparison.

Michael Graham, the Founder and CEO of Epilogue Systems, an award-winning digital adoption solutions firm dedicated to redefining workplace productivity in the enterprise joins Enterprise Radio.

If your users struggle with retention of new skills and content, then a performance support system might be exactly what you need. Studies show that a tremendous amount of time and energy goes towards searching for, reorganizing, and relearning information, tasks, and skills. In this video, we go over how a performance support system helps eliminate wasted time, reduces initial training, and increases organizational productivity.

Do more with less – most companies have this goal, but it rarely works out as planned. But what if Training and L&D pros were empowered to consistently deliver better outcomes while reducing training costs? In this video, we’ll explore 3 options – leverage microlearning strategies, engage internal SMEs, and improve through analytics – to help you do just that. So if you want to learn how to reduce training costs and improve training outcomes, watch this video today!

No application launch is complete without a clear roadmap of your business’ post go-live plans. What’s that? You don’t have any post go-live plans? In that case, you’ll want to hold off on your launch. After all, we live in an age where no product is ever truly ‘complete’. You’ll need to figure out how to continuously support your product for months (if not years) to come. If you’re looking to learn how, exactly, you can establish high-quality post go-live plans, this video is for you.

Contextual guidance provides a new solution for workplace productivity. Contextual guidance tools streamline application documentation, accelerate employee productivity, and help improve enterprise digital adoption. In this video, we share what those tools are and how they can improve workforce productivity.

Do more with less – most companies have this goal, but it rarely works out as planned. But what if Training and L&D pros were empowered to consistently deliver better outcomes while reducing training costs? In this video, we’ll explore 3 options – leverage microlearning strategies, engage internal SMEs, and improve through analytics – to help you do just that. So if you want to learn how to reduce training costs and improve training outcomes, watch this video today!

At Epilogue Systems, we have the best way to combat retirement brain drain in your company. Want to know what it is? Watch this video and find out!

Join Epilogue Systems and special guest Gary Wise of Human Performance Outfitters for a discussion of dynamic learning performance ecosystems, and how to unlock employee performance capability by providing support at the point of work.
Enterprise applications are complex. They can be difficult for users to adopt and learn how to use, slowing digital transformation and change management initiatives, and reducing your ROI on software investments. Opus, powered by Epilogue, is the first enterprise class cloud performance support solution. It provides in-application, context sensitive support to users when they most need it – at the point of work.