Sai Valluri, product marketing manager at Oracle, discusses how JD Edwards customers have gained more power over their existing JD Edwards solution. “Oracle is committed to helping you on your own unique journey.”

He illuminates the importance of Oracle Cloud during your JD Edwards implementation process: “You keep hearing about the cloud everywhere. Your competitors might be talking about it. [There is] a huge conversation around cloud.”

Based on customer feedback, he continues, there are four main challenges in pursuit of total business transformation:

• Reduce cost and modernize IT
• Improve agility and increase innovation
• Increase performance and business insights
• Decrease risk

Why choose Oracle Cloud? Valluri suggests running your JD Edwards software in Oracle Cloud. “All you’re doing is lifting and shifting from your old data center to the cloud.”

Money saving, choice and control

Choice and control are the main reasons customers decide to make this transition. Switching to the cloud is practical and cost effective: with Oracle Cloud, you only pay for usage, not hardware and software. Unique benefits to your IT team include rapid provisioning, migration tools, centralized management and surprisingly simple cloud integration.

Time saving and One-Click Provisioning

“It no longer takes a village. With One-Click Provisioning on Oracle Cloud, BOOM, you have a working system.” Cloud implementation can save you so much time over the long term. For example, you can lift and shift your data without rewrites. One-Click Provisioning is simplified, automated provisioning of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic.

It’s transformational because it infuses the value of Cloud into JD Edwards software, leveraging the power of JD Edwards tools working together. More importantly, this reduces time, skill and complexity involved in deployment. Obtaining One-Click Provisioning is easy — just get an Oracle Cloud account, find One-Click Provisioning and click “Deploy” to start.

Although he can’t say what it involves, Valluri seemed pleased to announce that a One-Click Provisioning report will be coming soon.

Moving to the cloud

What are some practical paths for moving to Oracle Cloud? Valluri suggests four that you should consider when extending the potential of your JD Edwards software.

• Optimize JD Edwards by lifting and shifting to IaaS — upgrading JD Edwards and migrating to IaaS
• Extend JD Edwards with Platform as a Service — leveraging PaaS to extend JD Edwards at scale
• Complement JD Edwards with Software as a Service — integrating with SaaS to meet line of business (LOB) requirements.
• Reduce risk with Backup and Disaster Recovery in the Cloud — deploying a secure disaster recovery solution without the added cost of building a disaster recovery site.
• Gain business insight with a data warehouse in the Cloud — applying business intelligence (BI) analytics from cloud.

All Clouds are not the same:

Oracle gives you the option to manage on-premise applications and cloud and even promises enhanced support for Microsoft coming soon. Valluri believes that what sets Oracle Cloud apart from others is its unique ability to offer more choice and more control with its broad portfolio of services.

For more information about the seamless, mutually beneficial relationship between JD Edwards and Oracle Cloud, watch this webinar presentation from Quest Experience Week! We look forward to learning more about JD Edwards upgrades and technologies with you at our Oracle COLLABORATE conference, COLLABORATE 18, April 22-26, 2018. Follow COLLABORATE 2018 updates on Twitter using the hashtag #C18LV.