Change Management and Implementation

Aras enforces a strict Solution Configuration Management discipline. The solution includes:

  • Standard Aras Innovator Platform – the release is created regularly by Aras engineering and tracked with versioning (Such as Aras Innovator Release 26, please see the support matrix.

  • Standard Aras Innovator Applications - User can include them with the base Aras Innovator platform.

  • Configuration and Customizations specified by the customer and implemented by the customer and or customer’s agents such as Aras Solution Delivery Services and 3rd Party Systems Integrators. These includes:

  • Workflow configurations

  • Reports

  • Configurations such as adding new properties to items

  • Forms

  • Integrations to various other systems

  • Enhancements (customizations for specific purposes)

The project manages all of the above to ensure comprehensive Solution Configuration Management. Aras Cloud policy requires a project to provide the following approvals to get a specific solution configuration into production or modify the solution.

  • Staging Environment: The Staging Environment allows users to complete final preparations and checks on a thoroughly tested deployment before it goes into production. It closely mirrors the production environment and serves as the last phase before deployment. Requests for provisioning and deprovisioning staging environments for production are initiated by the project team.

  • System Qualification Approval: The system satisfies requirements as tested in the SIT environment.

  • Functional Qualification Approval: The system configuration has been completed and is acceptable to the user community as tested in the UAT environment.

  • Data Qualification Approval: The system contains the required initial data.

  • Production Qualification Approval: Approval to go live and an invitation to the user community to use the system. Testing for this approval is conducted in the preproduction environment. The approach of solution configuration management pertains to the initial implementation as well as subsequent improvements, bug fixes, and any modifications that change the system’s configuration.