Seriously folks, you'd be amazed by the power and functionality of this tool.  If you're an EBus customer, you must use the Maintenance Wizard.  I know customers that have logged 2000+ SRs doing EBus upgrades the hard way and others that have use the Maintenance Wizard and have performed production upgrades on 7 global instances with only a handful of SRs.  You decide which is better. Oh, btw......it's part of your Premier Support investment. No additional cost necessary. -Chris Warticki

The Maintenance Wizard is an E-Business Suite upgrade tool that can guide you through the code line upgrade process from 11.5.10.2 to 12.1.3 with an 11gR2 database. Additionally, it includes maintenance features for most releases of E-Business Suite applications.

The Tool:

* Presents step-by-step upgrade and maintenance processes
* Enables validation of each step, tracks the completion of the steps, and maintains a log and status
* Is a multi-user tool that enables the System Administrator to give different users assignments based on any combination of category, product family or task
* Automatically installs many required patches
* Provides project management utilities to record the time taken for each task, completion status and project reporting

For More Information:

* Review Note 215527.1 for additional information on the Maintenance Wizard
* See Note 430732.1 to download the new Patch

Sincerely,
Oracle Proactive Support Center