When a JDE upgrade is done the customer faces a huge business impact with lengthy downtime resulting from upgrade cut over activities. The Uplift Upgrade strategy will ensure minimal outage during cut over. Key focus of this strategy is to drastically reduce downtime when applying all the latest patches (ESU) from the current level & this is achieved through Table Archival & Data Migration. The strategy identifies only the incremental changed data objects & applies only those changes (ESUs) during cut over. Identify JDE Patches (ESUs) which is updating Only Business, Transactional and Control tables based on special instructions and patch history. Multiple platforms & databases scenarios taken into consideration as JDE customers are on different platforms. Quality risk factor also considered to avoid data discrepancy. Overall cut over time & critical business process impact reduced by 40%.