ONEWORLD CUSTOMERS REPORT 600% INCREASE FROM FISCAL YEAR 1998.As more and more companies move business to the Web, they are turning to J.D. Edwards (J.D. Edwards & Company, Denver, CO, www.jdedwards.com) A developer of multinational, integrated enterprise software for distribution, finance, human resources, manufacturing and supply chain management. & Company (Nasdaq: JDEC JDEC Joint Data Exchange Center (US/Russian missile warning) JDEC Joint Document Exploitation Center (US DoD) ) for agile E-Business applications to run their enterprise operations. Many of these companies, such as H&R Block and Computer Network Technology, rely on solutions from J.D. Edwards and Oracle Corp. to provide a complete E-Business solution, with J.D. Edwards OneWorld(TM) business software powering companies' E-Business operations and Oracle providing the database. J.D. Edwards customers running OneWorld on the Oracle database increased over 600 percent from fiscal year end 1998 to today, a number that is expected to continue to grow, as more companies move to E-Business. "E-Business is the next generation of enterprise software and fully embodies J.D. Edwards' customer-centric Idea to Action(TM) value proposition," said Michael Schmitt, J.D. Edwards' senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing. "Without an open and collaborative E-Business solution like J.D. Edwards provides, companies are constrained con·strain tr.v. con·strained, con·strain·ing, con·strains 1. To compel by physical, moral, or circumstantial force; oblige: felt constrained to object. See Synonyms at force. 2. in their ability to quickly put their ideas into action and capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. emerging business opportunities." J.D. Edwards' OneWorld offers more than 1,000 Internet-enabled business applications to facilitate E-Business, extend global supply chains and manage customer relationships. In November 1998, J.D. Edwards announced support for the Oracle 8i database(TM), an Internet-enabled database for both UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and NT platforms. Both J.D. Edwards and Oracle share a common vision that the Internet provides new opportunities to reach customers and extend the corporate enterprise. "Unlike our competitors, J.D. Edwards has an E-Business solution that is available to companies today," said Schmitt. "The interoperability of OneWorld and other technology solutions, such as J.D. Edwards/xtr@, Ariba(R) ORMS ORMS Operating Resource Management System ORMS Operations Research and Management Science ORMS Operational Readiness Monitoring System ORMS Orderly Room Management System ORMS Oracle Retail Merchandise System (TM) and Siebel Systems' Siebel Sales Enterprise, gives our customers the most robust solution shipping in the market today. J.D. Edwards' development approach is to offer our customers the most functionally rich solution available today rather than try to internally develop applications that will not be mature for years." J.D. Edwards recently announced the successful integration between OneWorld and xtr@, Siebel Sales Enterprise and Ariba ORMS applications. About J.D. Edwards J.D. Edwards provides Idea to Action(TM) software for managing the virtual enterprise and supply chain. The company's integrated applications deliver agile E-Business solutions that give customers control over their front office, manufacturing, supply chain, logistics/distribution, human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. and finance processes for the consumer products, industrial and services industries. J.D. Edwards enables Idea to Action with ActivEra(TM), a collection of tools and technologies that extend J.D. Edwards' OneWorld(TM) and WorldSoftware enterprise business software and its Numetrix supply chain planning solutions. ActivEra allows customers to change their software quickly and easily during and after implementation. The company's solutions operate in multiple computing environments, including Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. (R), UNIX and OS/400, and are Java(TM) and HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. enabled. Founded in 1977, J.D. Edwards is headquartered in Denver and posted fiscal 1998 revenues of $934 million. Additional information can be obtained by contacting the company at 800-727-5333, or via the Internet at www.jdedwards.com. |
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