ERP Software

Oracle’s J.D. Edwards EnterpriseOne

Today (2011) J.D. Edwards is an Oracle owned company.  In 2003 PeopleSoft, an ERP vendor, acquired J.D. Edwards in a 1.7 billion dollar merger.  PeopleSoft then joined J.D. Edwards’ ERP or Enterprise Resource Planning software solution with PeopleSoft’s ERP software solution to enhance capabilities and create one robust ERP offering.  A couple of years later, in 2005, PeopleSoft caved into to Oracle’s 10.3 billion dollar offer and the company was finally acquired by Oracle in a hostile takeover.   Today Oracle offers the PeopleSoft J.D. Edwards ERP software solution and calls the solution “Oracle’s J.D. Edwards EnterpriseOne”.

Oracle’s J.D. Edward’s ERP software solution is best suited to the manufacturing industry, construction industry, distribution industry, and service industry.  This solution is equipped to handle enterprise sized organizations in need of robust functionality.   J.D. Edwards ERP software can help organizations manage their customers, assets, resources, supply chain, and suppliers as well as measure performance.  This on-premise proprietary solution can be customized to suit all unique business needs.  Oracle’s J.D. Edwards EnterpriseOne has turned out to be a money maker.  Oracle is well known for all of its acquisitions and hostile takeovers including; Siebel, Hyperion Solutions, Sun Microsystems, 360Commerce, SiteWorks Solutions, NetForce, IRI Software, and TimesTen to name a few.  Oracle has over one hundred thousand employees located around the world.  Oracle’s revenue was over twenty-six billion dollars in 2010 and the giant organization continues to gain market share in the database market, software market, middleware market and hardware market.

Along with Oracle’s J.D. Edwards EnterpriseOne, Oracle offers several Enterprise Resource Planning solutions for all sized businesses in just about any and every industry one can think up.  In fact, Oracle is even trying to tap their competitor’s market share without an acquisition by offering an application to make SAP products easier to integrate.  Talk about a good strategic plan!  Oracle recently broke into the cloud computing market with the release of their new Exalogic middleware machine.  Exalogic has the ability to run Java applications and non-Java applications.  Of course the machine also runs all of Oracle’s applications including Oracle’s J.D. Edwards EnterpriseOne.  However, this machine has one hefty price tag so buyers should beware.  Small and medium sized businesses shouldn’t even take a peek because this machine will most likely dry up all their capital.

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kristine H