There’s an old saying that “All good things must come to an end.” Frankly, however, we don’t agree. That’s why we are taking a good thing — our white papers about JD Edwards — and updating them so they can continue to help our readers for years to come.
If you click over to our white papers section, you will see that we just finished updating our flagship paper, The Transformation of JD Edwards Applications. We’ve refreshed this report with new information about upcoming JD Edwards releases, the growing importance of Oracle’s Application Integration Architecture, and other important findings. We have also revised Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, IBM System x, and IBM BladeCenter, a paper that discusses the advantages of hosting EnterpriseOne on IBM’s Intel x86-based servers.
Over the coming months, we intend to update more of our JD Edwards white papers and write a few new ones to boot. So drop by now and then to see what we’re up to. Chances are good that you’ll walk away with something you can use.
Have you ever tried to describe what a data warehouse is to the non-technical decision makers in your organization? If so, you have probably gotten a few blank stares. If you tried to describe how a data warehouse would work with your JD Edwards applications, the “stare rate” probably increased at an exponential rate.
Fortunately, we now offer an animated demonstration of what a data warehouse is and how it can add value to your JD Edwards applications. The demonstration combines simplicity with humor to make difficult concepts easy to understand. What do I mean by humor? Just imagine someone drawing diagrams on a napkin, then watching those diagrams come to life with amusing sound effects, and you’ll have an idea of what I mean.
I don’t want to steal any more thunder from our latest learning tool, so please just click on the link in the previous paragraph, then click on the “Play Animation” link. We hope that your non-techie colleagues get the message. Speaking of messages, feel free to leave us one in the reply box below to let us know what you think of our little demonstration.
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If you think that Oracle is going to back off from its lawsuit against SAP’s TomorrowNow subsidiary just because SAP is shutting the organization down, think again. A few days after SAP announced the shutdown, Oracle added fresh allegations to its lawsuit that SAP’s top brass knew TomorrowNow was operating illegally before they acquired the third-party maintenance firm. The revised lawsuit also accuses SAP board members and top executives of conspiring to cover up TomorrowNow’s illegal activities. The suit even claims that the German software giant gave the cover-up a name — Project Blue — replete with presentations that came with instructions to “delete after reading”.
Before I comment further on this story, let me make it clear that the following statements are pure conjecture on my part. That said, is it just a coincidence that Oracle filed this amended lawsuit several days after SAP announced it is shutting down TomorrowNow? I doubt it. While neither Oracle nor SAP has said a word to us about the lawsuit, it would be reasonable to conclude that Oracle’s attorneys have been gathering evidence for the new allegations for some time. They would certainly have had good reasons to do so. If SAP deep sixed TomorrowNow, Oracle would need to quickly marshal evidence that the wrongdoing was not limited to TomorrowNow (something that SAP has steadfastly maintained) but reached all the way up into SAP’s management. That would be the only way to keep the legal fires burning under the case.
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