The JD Edwards Advisor

Andrews Consulting Group has just published a new study of Oracle’s strategy for EnterpriseOne and World. The paper, “The Transformation of JD Edwards Applications”, is based on months of discussions that Andrews Consulting Group held with Oracle executives. It is now available for download from this site.

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As CNC professionals, we were shielded from the numerous functional changes that JD Edwards made to EnterpriseOne Xe and all releases up to the 8.11 level. However, EnterpriseOne 8.12 contains important architectural changes that will affect our management of the system.

In all previous EnterpriseOne releases, the specifications we use were stored in several locations: on the “SPEC” directory on the deployment server; on standalone machines with a “fat” or “thick” client in the “SPEC” directory, as well as in the RDBMS repository after check in; and on the Java application server (JAS) generation machine. The deployment server databases were either MS Access or MS SQL Server, depending on your release. But we all knew that the spec files were where the changes were contained.

Now, if you are installing or upgrading to EnterpriseOne 8.12, why is the spec directory empty?

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If you couldn’t attend the big Applications Unlimited shindig that Oracle threw on January 31, you can still get your hands on some good JD Edwards content that came out of the event. Oracle just posted the slide presentations that Lenley Hensarling (General Manager for EnterpriseOne) and John Schiff (GM for World) gave during breakout sessions at the event. Here are the URLs for the slides.

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Oracle hosted an electronic party last week to announce the availability of new releases for all of its application products including EnterpriseOne and World. The high profile event was held in New York City on January 31 and broadcast to over 3,000 people at meeting sites around the world. The event was webcast to those who cared not to travel.

The event was all about celebration and education. The fact that nothing new of consequence was announced or introduced did not dampen the excitement of Oracle’s executives and did not seem to concern the audience. During an interview with analysts later in the day, Oracle development executive John Wookey admitted that the availability of all these new releases at approximately the same time was a coincidence. However, Wookey also made important revelations to us about the Fusion Application timetable for JD Edwards users that were not part of the scripted event.

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