“JD Edwards: A Year in Review and a Look Ahead,” was presented by Oracle’s Lyle Ekdahl, Mike Fabijanic and Chris Cole, as part of a series of webinars related to the direction of the JD Edwards solutions and how these solutions facilitate digitization of information to help customers create competitive advantage. Topics coming soon to this JD Edwards webinar series include: user experience, extending JD Edwards, upgrades and migrations — and the all-encompassing drive toward digital transformation.

Presentation Agenda
The overall agenda for the presentation is straightforward and covers a vast range of material in less than one hour. Here are the key components of this Oracle presentation:

• Looking Back
• Oracle’s Investment Strategy
• Looking Ahead
• JD Edwards Resources

A Brief Look Back
When we look back at last year, we see a year of lightning-quick change. JD Edwards committed to extended support timelines, demonstrated their commitment to product enhancements and innovation, as well as created stronger compatibilities with other Oracle applications. So, how do they intend to keep that momentum going this year? According to Ekdahl, customers want fewer disruptive upgrades, longer support timelines with stronger ROI and Oracle’s continuous commitment to product enhancements and new innovation. Oracle will continue to evaluate their roadmap base on customer needs.

Customer Success Trends From 2017
Here are a few customer success trends that we will continue to see this year:

• Migration from World to EnterpriseOne to evolve to digital business needs
• JD Edwards as the platform for expansion and extension for new products
• JD Edwards as the platform for Innovative new technologies including mobile and IoT
• JD Edwards and Cloud merging as a platform hub

Oracle’s Investment Strategy
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne updates occur in a regular annual pattern, with Continuous Delivery driving applications and tools releases for the 9.2 codeline.JD Edwards users are encouraged to upgrade to Release 9.2 for the benefits of Continuous Delivery and Adoption.

Lease Accounting Standard changes
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and IRFS have issued FASB IFRS 16 and ASC 842 that make changes in the lease management processes. As we mentioned in a recent blog, JD Edwards has changed their solutions to support the new lease accounting standard.

Orchestrator for All
Now that Orchestrator is included in Core Tools, users can easily develop microservices for JD Edwards, and all JD Edwards is exposed to Orchestrator elements. Orchestrator operates on low code, no code principals to extend JD Edwards to other applications.

Areas of Investment
The product line has identified four areas for future product expansion:

• ERP modernization that differentiates your business
• Personalized user experience with UX One
• Digital technology to power digital transformation
• Operational simplification to eliminate costs and complexity

JD Edwards Is Available on the Oracle Cloud
JD Edwards offers choice and control, enabling your journey to the cloud. They are focused on leveraging your existing JD Edwards Investment for as long as it meets your business requirements. Customer can select cloud solutions (IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS) that complements your existing systems, when you need them, enabling lines of business to rapidly respond to evolving business conditions.

Let’s Look Ahead
Updates to look forward to in 2018 include delivery of EnterpriseOne enhancements about once per quarter including Joint Venture Management, new mobile applications for employees for simpler time entry and additional updates to the User Experience of JD Edwards.

Resources For JD Edwards
If you want more information, Ekdahl directs users to LearnJDE.com, where he says you will find a wealth of information, including a webinar resource for learning everything from UX One to Watchlists. The website has recently gotten updated for enhanced user experience and improved search.

Oracle’s next session in this JD Edwards webinar series, “JD Edwards UX One for Procurement,” will be held on Thursday, March 15. Register to learn how UX One role-based content for Procurement optimizes your user experience and helps you to be more productive and proactive. This session focuses on how to use, create, and configure UX One components such as Landing Pages, Watchlists, Analytic Components, CafeOne layouts, List View grid formats, Springboards, and Personal Forms to support your role and work preferences.

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