Introduction
and History of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Application
Are you beginner to JD Edwards? Congrats you are come to the
best place to begin the process of understanding JD Edwards Company and JD
Edwards software by Persistent Solution LLC. Probably the first thing you should know that JD Edwards is
mainly abbreviated as JDE.
JD Edwards is named after its first 3 founders those who
worked hard, named as 1) Jack Thompson 2) Dan Gregory and 3) Edward (Ed) Mc
Vaney. Jack was the best technical guru, Dan was the marketing and sales
person, and Ed became the CEO, leading JD Edwards for many years.
JD Edwards was started as a custom programming shop late
70s, writing software absorbing the IBM System 3X as its foundation. By the
mid-80s, JDE emerged with the first package version of its basis product,
Financials; is followed by Distribution (Sales, Inventory, and Purchasing),
which was joined in the late 80s; and finally by Manufacturing and Payroll/HR
in the early 90s. JD Edwards's first Enterprise Resource Planning package named
as World Software. JD Edwards was lucky when IBM came out with its successor to
the System 32/36/38, the AS/400. Within a very few years JD Edwards software
was running on 15% of all installed AS/400s. JD Edwards grew very rapidly, with
300 employees and revenue of $24M in 1988, growing to over 6,000 employees
worldwide and $1B in revenue 10 years
later. JDE turn into a strong player in the mid-market (companies with annual
revenue from $200M to $800M), specifically in industries that involved in
manufacturing and distribution operations.
In the mid -90s, the past "green screen"
technology using character-based "dumb" terminals, started to move to
a client-server architecture with a Windows like GUI known as Graphical User
Interface. JD Edwards had some wrong initiates as it developed the new
software, basically named Everest, and later renamed OneWorld. basic releases
of OneWorld were unstable, and it was not as far as 2000, when OneWorld Xe was
released, that JD Edwards had a functional product with which it could clash
with other ERP platforms such as SAP and PeopleSoft. Despite the wrong
initiate, however, the flexibility and power of this package to run on various
hardware/OS/DB platforms made it a formidable competitor against these other
vendors. Note that the World product now provide "web enabled" screen
views, which allow the green screens to look more like a normal PC screen, but
it is an alternative preference, and many companies still use the original
green screen.
JD Edwards made a key decision previous in the design of
OneWorld the database used by OneWorld would match (or at least not conflict
with) the database used by World Software. Thus, the working functionality of
the previously releases of OneWorld would be basically the same as the
functionality of World Software. And there was a data conversion path, which made
it relatively easy for clients to drift from World to OneWorld, and in many
cases run both packages together in "coexistence" mode.
In 2003, PeopleSoft captured JD Edwards and renamed OneWorld
to EnterpriseOne. And PeopleSoft's flagship product was named PeopleSoft
Enterprise.
Almost instantly, Oracle launched a hostile takeover bid to
acquire PeopleSoft. In 2005 Oracle finished its takeover of PeopleSoft, leaving
Oracle with a number of ERP and CRM packages to sell and support: Oracle EBS,
PeopleSoft Enterprise, JD Edwards World, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, and Siebel.
Oracle quickly declared that it would endure to support these separate packages
with its Applications Unlimited program, and at the same time evolve a totally
new ERP solution, Fusion. Fusion Applications became generally available in
2010, but the full ERP product (Financials, Distribution, Manufacturing,
HR/Payroll) is probably still 5-10 years away.
In the meantime, Oracle endure to enhance JD Edwards World
and EnterpriseOne. More information on the recent versions of World and
EnterpriseOne can be seen at Persistent solution LLC Training and Support Center.
The Introduction to JDE pages on this
Post are intended to be concise summaries for JD Edwards learners who are
encountering JD Edwards for the first time. For more advanced knowledge, please
read the blogspot in our JD Edwards Training, or visit website http://www.persistentsolution.com .
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