The JD Edwards Advisor

Recently, SearchOracle.com conducted a survey of 683 professionals who make IT decisions at Oracle shops. When the study participants were asked about their plans for implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) at their site, a full 84% said that they have not implemented a SOA on any level. When the “have no SOA” participants were asked if they plan to implement a SOA in the future, 48% said they plan to implement one within the next three years. However, the remaining 52% said that they did not know if or when their companies would take the SOA leap. If you do the math, this means that around 44% of all Oracle customers have no plans for implementing a SOA.

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Would you like to get a free ticket to this November’s Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco? You can if you don’t mind doing what many people rank as the thing they fear the most next to dying…speaking in public.

If you laugh in the face of such fears, then submit a proposal to Oracle for a presentation about EnterpriseOne or World that you are willing to make at OpenWorld. The following announcement comes from the OpenWorld organizers and tells you exactly how to submit your proposal. If you are not the public speaking type, you can register for OpenWorld starting on June 26 and pay your entry fee. The choice is yours. That said, here is the announcement.

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If you are like most JD Edwards users, you run your EnterpriseOne or World applications on at least one IBM hardware or software product. If you do, you owe it to yourself to get to know the people at the IBM Oracle International Competency Center. They are a great resource for helping you size and tune your applications for IBM environments.

I’m not bringing this up to be some sort of marketing shill for IBM (I assure you that the company is not paying me). I’m telling you about the Competency Center because it just came out with a handy directory to some of its best system sizing and tuning guides. These guides have great technical content in them that you just won’t get from Oracle’s other technology partners. Feel free to download the resources directory from this web site and see for yourself.

If you have been wondering whether it will be worth your while to attend Oracle OpenWorld (OOW) this fall, I have news that could affect your decision. Sources at Oracle have told us that once again, JD Edwards customers will get their own “event within an event” at OOW this year. Indeed, EnterpriseOne and World customers will get two days of their own sessions along with the right to attend all other OOW events.

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