The JD Edwards Advisor

Has your company ever tried to calculate the savings it could realize if it could make more effective shipping decisions? Since most JD Edwards customers are heavy shippers of unfinished supplies and finished goods, many of them could realize significant benefits from more intelligent systems for automating transportation-related business processes. As such, it did not surprise us to find a JD Edwards user that is reaping big savings from Oracle Transportation Management (OTM), a solution that Oracle acquired when it purchased G-Log in 2005. Fortunately for us, the customer — Minnesota-based Land O’Lakes — was willing to let us write a case study about its OTM deployment. This article tells you how you can get that case study and learn from the company’s experience.

Of course, Land O’Lakes is not the only company that is deploying offerings like OTM. However, what makes Land O’Lakes interesting is the fact that Oracle is increasingly encouraging JD Edwards customers to deploy OTM and other applications from its growing stable of acquired vendors. To make such deployments more appealing, the software giant is developing technology offerings to integrate some of its applications with JD Edwards software. While such offerings are still in their infancy, they have the potential to significantly expand the functionality that can be easily integrated with EnterpriseOne and World. That potential should expand as Oracle ramps up development of its Application Integration Architecture.

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While we often forget it, a lot of organizations out there offer excellent products, tools, and services for JD Edwards users. Sadly, many users don’t know about these organizations or their offerings. To remedy that, we just created a new section on our site that is simply called Valuable Resources. You can link to the new section via the top menu bar.

Over time, we will fill this section with links to many organizations that serve EnterpriseOne and World users. We will also ask these companies to write informational pages that we can post in the new section. We have already received pages from two companies —LANSA and RapidDecision — that contain great information about their JD Edwards offerings. I would encourage you to click over to their pages and check them out. Keep checking back, as this section will steadily expand over time!

Last week, SAP filed its much-anticipated response to Oracle’s lawsuit that accused the German company’s TomorrowNow subsidiary of stealing thousands of proprietary documents and software code from the Oracle Customer Connection web site. While the response admitted to some wrongdoing on TomorrowNow’s part, it also indicated that SAP will fight Oracle if it tries to ban TomorrowNow from accessing Customer Connection. That position could set the stage for a long and bitter legal battle between the two software giants.

In the 20-page document that it filed with the U.S. District Court, SAP admitted that some TomorrowNow employees made “inappropriate downloads” from Oracle’s site. At the same time, the company insisted that TomorrowNow has the right to download content from the site on behalf of its customers. In addition, SAP stated that any illegally downloaded content stayed on TomorrowNow’s systems and never found its way onto SAP’s servers.

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Are you an EnterpriseOne 8.10 or 8.11 user who plans on upgrading to the EnterpriseOne Tools 8.96 release? If you are, you could be in for some surprises that could be unpleasant if you’re not adequately prepared.

Don’t get me wrong…I’m not saying that EnterpriseOne 8.10 and 8.11 users should avoid Tools 8.96, as it works perfectly well with these releases. You should know, however, that Oracle really engineered the latest Tools release with EnterpriseOne 8.12 in mind. For instance, Tools 8.96 can generate Java Serialized Objects from EnterpriseOne 8.12 specifications on the fly (with some limitations). If you run Tools 8.96 on Enterprise 8.10 or 8.11, however, you have to install and configure a web generator to generate the JSOs manually. Unfortunately, Oracle does not provide thorough documentation for how to properly install and configure the web generator on these two earlier releases.

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