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Oracle: We�ll Support JD Edwards to 2013
By DAVID SIMS
TMCnet CRM Alert Columnist
Oracle announces upgrades to JD Edwards World apps.
Oracle has announced the availability of new enhancements to its JD Edwards World applications with the A7.3 Service Pack 16.
Saying it �relied on feedback from customer advisory boards including the World Product User Group and World Product Advisory Council,� the company added functions to �enable companies using JD Edwards World solutions to improve compliance, provide customers with self-service applications and lower operating costs.�
Software from PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards will be supported and upgraded through 2013, Oracle President Charles Phillips told Investor�s Business Daily.
John Schiff, general manager and vice president at JD Edwards World Group said Oracle is continuing its partnership with IBM running JD Edwards World solutions on the IBM eServer iSeries system, and �plans to work with IBM and other partners to define the requirements for JD Edwards World products to be included in Oracle Project Fusion and support customers through future upgrades."
Schiff tells InfoWorld that Project Fusion, still in the early stages, is a follow-on product to all of its current offerings from PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and Oracle. Data will be delivered through Oracle middleware such as the customer data hub, product data hub, and financial data hub.
With the A7.3 Service Pack 16, Oracle has made functionality enhancements to Cash Flow Reporting, improved the audit trails within General Ledger, updated batch headers and added an approval process in Accounts Payable to monitor the outflow of cash.
These new additions, company officials say, �will enable JD Edwards World customers to better comply with regulatory mandates such as Sarbanes-Oxley and gain increased insight into financial reporting practices and internal controls.�
Oracle�s recently-announced Project Fusion is, Investor�s Business Daily reports, a campaign to fully digest � �meld� is their exact word � Oracle�s recent purchases, such as PeopleSoft/JD Edwards and Retek: �The goal is to blend the best features from its existing product lines into Fusion while still updating software versions deployed by current users.�
InfoWorld says the idea behind Project Fusion is to �integrate PeopleSoft Enterprise, Oracle E-Business Suite, and the JD Edwards solutions into a single application.�
Also this week Oracle started �a campaign to take away SAP customers by offering them a plan to migrate to Oracle products,� according to Reuters.
Called the �OFF SAP� plan � �mimicking one by SAP that tries to lure customers that Oracle gained after buying rival PeopleSoft,� Reuters explains � it offers SAP customers �up to 100 percent of their software license to switch from the earlier SAP flagship product known as �R/3 to Oracle�s suite of applications.�
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