It was great to be back in Denver for INFOCUS with the JD Edwards community! Thank you to everyone who visited our booth, attended our sessions, or joined us for the customer appreciation happy hour. If you couldn’t make it this year, here’s a recap of what you missed.

• Long-Term Commitment and Evolution: Oracle is reaffirming its commitment to JD Edwards with extended support until 2035, including a comprehensive 10-year development roadmap. This assures customers of ongoing innovations and enhancements, ensuring that JD Edwards remains relevant and adaptable to evolving business needs.
• Focus on Digital Transformation and AI Integration: The introduction of Release 25 emphasizes digital transformation through automation and AI. Notable innovations include the JDE chatbot for sales management, predictive analytics, and enhanced inventory management, which aim to streamline processes and improve operational efficiency across organizations.
• Sustainability and Customization Enhancements: JD Edwards is implementing a sustainability framework to help organizations track environmental metrics, leading to potential cost savings and improved regulatory compliance. Additionally, recent updates in enterprise automation and customization allow businesses to tailor JD Edwards solutions to their unique requirements, enhancing user experience and operational effectiveness.

Oracle is committed to JD Edwards with extended support through 2035 and a detailed 10-year plan, reassuring customers about their long-term investment. This extended development timeline ensures that JD Edwards will continue to evolve to meet customer needs.

JD Edwards boasts a storied history beginning in 1972 and continues to experience substantial growth and innovation. The platform has had over 30 major updates, and its latest version, 9.2, has almost 1,000 enhancements. Last year, Oracle added over 100 new features. This relentless progression highlights Oracle’s commitment to maintaining and advancing top-tier solutions for its users.

Oracle’s vision for the JD Edwards Product Roadmap emphasizes three key areas:

• Applications: JD Edwards has come a long way since 2000, enhancing automation and functionality to help organizations fully leverage modern software solutions.
• Digital Platform: JDE Orchestrator Studio is central to JD Edwards’ strategy, introducing no-code and low-code development options. This innovation replaces rigid customizations with flexible solutions, making it easier for businesses to analyze data and boost operational efficiency.
• System Administration: Regular updates keep JD Edwards up-to-date and make system management easier. Oracle focuses on security and impact analysis to ensure the system remains robust and user-friendly.

The JD Edwards product strategy also highlights a sustainability framework for capturing and reporting environmental data. Their sustainability framework is a reliable source for tracking fuel usage, energy consumption, and other vital metrics. It simplifies data gathering and integrates with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) to track emissions against goals. By implementing this framework, companies can find cost-saving opportunities, reduce emissions, enhance regulatory compliance, and build stakeholder trust.

The success metrics shared during the conference were nothing short of impressive. Since 2015, JD Edwards has delivered over 30 releases and more than 110 enhancements just last year.

• Currently, 425 customers are running JD Edwards SaaS applications.
• Over 330 are utilizing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

Release 25 is a Digital ERP upgrade that introduces innovations designed to automate, optimize, and transform business processes. This release underscores Oracle’s ongoing commitment to advancing customers’ digital transformation initiatives.

It was no surprise that a key theme at the conference was the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into business processes. During the JD Edwards Product Session, Oracle demonstrated practical applications of AI, including a JDE chatbot designed to assist sales managers with order management. The JDE chatbot showed its potential to automate tasks, enhance efficiency, and streamline workflows, underscoring its critical role in improving professional effectiveness.

Oracle discussed its broader investments in AI, focusing on predictive and generative technologies. They presented innovations that address various business challenges and demonstrated how AI can enhance inventory management and forecasting.

Oracle also showcased the ease of authenticating to OCI services and transferring files, further illustrating these advancements. The OCI Document Understanding AI service accurately interpreted scanned receipts and extracted fundamental values for expense management. This flexibility and extensibility of OCI services demonstrate their potential to improve business processes significantly.

Recent innovations in enterprise automation and customization within JD Edwards enable organizations to enhance efficiency and tailor solutions to meet their business needs.

• Automation Process Models: Enterprise automation process models demonstrate seamless integration with JD Edwards, providing comprehensive business process views and key performance indicators (KPIs) for effective performance monitoring. The order fill rate KPI is crucial for managing inventory levels and preventing backorders.
• Building and Customizing Process Models: Organizations need to build custom templates tailored to their specific business needs, as pre-built models sometimes align with unique requirements. By creating a procure-to-pay model, they use data to generate process models directly, allowing them to personalize their analytics while keeping snapshots of their current system state for future reference.
• User-Defined Objects and Update Manager: User-defined objects and their integration through the Update Manager simplify patch applications and impact analysis by providing special instructions for seamless updates. The upcoming administrative features aim to enhance the client’s development and optimize package management.

Oracle JD Edwards provides innovative solutions that boost business efficiency and foster sustainability. Join the JD Edwards community to explore the wide-ranging opportunities as we work together toward a more efficient and sustainable future.

This year at INFOCUS, we hosted four sessions:

• Introduction to UX One Tools—A Practical Guide to Setup & Use: We provided an overview of key UX One tools like E1 Pages and CafeOne pages, including practical examples and configuration tips to enhance system functionality and usability.
• Transportation Management “Lite” – Streamlining Sales Order Processing: This session demonstrated how minimal setup can effectively streamline the sales order pick/pack/ship process by utilizing essential features like Shipment Consolidation and automating Billable/Payable charges.
• Best Practices for Assessing Current State and Building a Strategic Technology Roadmap: During this session, we guided attendees in creating a strategic technology roadmap by assessing their current tech, identifying strengths and gaps, and prioritizing initiatives to align with business objectives.
• Advanced Pricing and Advanced Preferences for Finance: We dove into how Advanced Pricing can ease challenges in AR and AP processes. At the same time, Advanced Preferences provide the flexibility needed to support both Distribution and Finance team requirements, with real-world solutions showcased for sales and purchase order processing.

Please reach out if you’d like more information or copies of our presentations!

INFOCUS is the best conference for staying updated and engaged in the JD Edwards community. As one of the largest and award-winning Oracle consulting groups in the United States, our commitment to this community runs deep. We sincerely thank everyone who visited our booth and participated in our session.

Another thank you to everyone who joined us for our customer appreciation happy hour! It was a great opportunity to connect more personally and celebrate our work within the JD Edwards community. Special thanks to our partners—Avalara, Bottomline, Essentio, Redfaire International, and RF-Smart—for their support.

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Keep the momentum going with JD Edwards!

Mark your calendars for BLUEPRINT 4D, which will be held June 9-13, 2025, in Vegas. Share how your team is using the latest JD Edwards features, and you could earn a FREE PASS to the event! The call for presentations is open now, so take advantage of this opportunity to get involved!

Also, save the date for INFOCUS in Denver, September 9-11, 2025. By showcasing your team’s success stories and innovations, you’ll have another chance to earn a free pass.