JD Edwards

This is a portfolio of various offerings designed around helping customers take rational decisions around their IT systems fitment and procurement.  Areas covered are:

• Independent System Selection for Tier-1 and Tier-2 ERP’s
• Add-on Products for JD Edwards
• Oracle Cloud ERP / SCM Migrations
• Oracle EDGE solutions around JD Edwards
• Oracle Licensing and related elements
• RFP preparation and validation
• Vendor or Partner selection or credentials validation
• Offshore partner selection

All of these engagements can be seamlessly merged with our System Selection EDGE offering.

IMPLEMENT EDGE – Designed for clients looking to implement JD Edwards for the first time. This offering can also be leveraged in re-implementation or additional functionality implementation scenarios. Solutions & Offerings for Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and World

UPGRADE EDGE – Our most utilized offering, formulated to assist clients planning to upgrade to the latest version of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne or World, including migrations from World to EnterpriseOne or Oracle Fusion Applications coexistence with JD Edwards. Extensive coverage of all relevant aspects, including timelines and estimates down to all the key activities by resource by hours per week. In few cases, clients have successfully executed their upgrades internally from the in-depth information provided from this assessment. Depending on the need, complexity and duration, elements included, but not limited to:

• Objective and business case
• High-level Project Charter
• Project Management and Change Management
• Risk and Governance
• Technology / Configurable Network Computing (CNC)
• Business Processes
• Data Migration
• Customizations – retrofit or retirement
• Net-change functionality
• Training
• Testing, including validation and Performance / Stress Testing
• Go-live cutover
• Post live sustenance

OPTIMIZE EDGE – This offering is structured around clients looking to get more out of their investments in JD Edwards, including rationalization if the system is being utilized to the maximum potential. Flavors include:

• Post implementation assessment
• Total cost of ownership validation
• Comparison to other similar footprints in the same industry
• Pain areas investigation
• Performance improvements

Beyond the traditional services, we also offer specialized assessments around the following areas:

• SECURE EDGE – Security Assessment for JD Edwards native security, third-party tool led or infrastructure security (in context to JDE)
• READY EDGE – Readiness Assessment as a Health Check, Gate Reviews or Go-Live readiness
• Project Intervention Strategy – For failed or stalled projects, which may require in-flight planning or re-planning
• Change Management Assessment – Organization readiness and communications for the JD Edwards project
• TECHNOLOGY EDGE – CNC / Technology Assessment, with optional Infrastructure Assessment – As a Health Check or Audit or periodic advisory
• INTEGRATION EDGE – Integrations Strategy – Approach for integration for JD Edwards, consolidation into a common platform
• Global Model and Rollout Strategy – Answers to leverage commonality across BU’s to result in quicker rollouts
• Instance Consolidation Assessment – Approach to consolidate into a single instance or cluster instances of JD Edwards
• TRANSFORM EDGE – Assessment to help answer questions before or during your journey to transform or re-implement JD Edwards
• Acquisition or Divestiture Strategy for JD Edwards – Answers for your JDE landscape for M&A or Divestiture scenarios

Our most specialized service offering for all types of upgrades and migrations for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne or World:

• Traditional upgrades
• Technical upgrades
• 100-day Upgrade, including larger projects leveraging the 100-day model
• Transformational upgrades
• World to E1 migrations
• Ending co-existence and upgrade to E1
• Tools Release (Service Pack) upgrade
• Application-only upgrades – ESU’s / ASU’s / Planner ESU’s
• Platform migrations, including moving from On-Premise to Cloud deployments

Our extensive experience with large customers and large programs around JD Edwards has given us the industry leading expertise to be part of some of the largest Global Rollouts in the JD Edwards industry. This exposure has perfected our ability to deliver results consistently. In addition, our Results Oriented Methodology (9E-ROM) has been refined from all the lessons learnt from this rich experience.

Often misunderstood and misdiagnosed, Global Model Design, Build and Rollout projects have the highest probability of failure, typically because of a roller-coaster and lengthy lifecycle which is unmindful of the market changes and time to value realities of a business. Our unique approach addresses many such critical elements to ensure success of the overall program. In addition, our global delivery capabilities and reach into the various geographies has given us the required knowledge around localizations and country or region specific nuances.

Call us to learn more on how we can ensure a successful outcome to your program.

Designed around expanding your existing footprint, this area of our services is to assist you in adding new modules and features in & around JD Edwards. Our experts can seamlessly understand your requirements and design & build the right configurations into the system. We offer flexibility in our engagement where few clients leverage our expertise only for the design pieces, while others engage us for the entire lifecycle.

Although we are big proponents of keeping a vanilla JD Edwards system, we understand that there are occasions where custom modifications may be justified to meet business requirements. Leveraging our Global Results Center (GRC), we are able to build these extensions or customizations in a timely and cost effective manner. Our Global Delivery Model is designed to enable the same quality as an onsite engagement, but benefit from the cost savings of getting the coding done in offshore. In some situations, we can also deliver the project in a turnkey fashion, where most activities are driven and executed from offshore.

We offer custom development services in traditional as well as the newer areas, such as:

• JD Edwards application and report development, including CAFE framework
• Reporting solutions such as BI Publisher, OBIEE or Cognos, including Analytics around JD Edwards
• Mobility applications, leveraging native iOS or Android platforms or using Oracle MAF (Mobile Application Framework)
• Social Technologies, leveraging Oracle Social Cloud components like Social Marketing (SM), Social Engagement & Monitoring (SE&M), Social Network, and Social Data, along with the Oracle SRM platform which is integrated with the Customer Experience (CX) applications

We have deep expertise and extensive experience in integrating add-on products and solutions to JD Edwards. Our preferred approach is to use Oracle Fusion Middleware and SOA based integrations, but we also have skills in WebMethods and BizTalk.

With our Managed Services for JD Edwards applications (MANAGED EDGE), you can transfer the operational risk of your applications to us, while retaining the headroom you need to innovate and add value to the business. We manage your applications so you can focus on your business. Leveraging our Global Results Center (GRC) and our proprietary tools as Force Multipliers, we can easily adapt to the fluctuating service needs of your business. The benefits usually only available on large engagements are now also available to mid-to-smaller volume clients.

Our Managed Services portfolio consists includes the following, available in many flexible modes:

• Application Managed Services
• CNC Managed Services
• Shared Services
• Ad-hoc Support
• On-Call Support

BOT EDGE – Our experience in incubating and setting up multiple Offshore Delivery Centers in India, specifically around JD Edwards, allows us to offer a turnkey solution for organizations looking to open their own captive center in India. Inline with our Risk Sharing mindset, we can design flexible options like Build Operate Transfer (BOT), Outsourced Operations and Advisory models.

UPK based customized training and education services for JD Edwards. Our trainers are full-fledged field consultants, who coach the participants beyond basic theory and bring real world examples to their teaching techniques. We also offer multi-language training and translation services.

Visit www.learnjde.com for more information on JD Edwards

Our SUCCESS EDGE offering is structured around our hands-on experience with 60+ full lifecycle upgrades, implementations or similar JD Edwards initiatives, where we work on behalf of a client in providing customized PMO, Governance, Risk Management, Advisory and Quality Assurance services for a planned or ongoing JDE project / program. This provides the necessary independent assurance and edge to your program success, executed seamlessly with your internal teams and/or existing vendors. Offering flexible models of engagement, we will bring our 22+ years of JD Edwards projects experience to deliver RESULTS to your initiatives.

Our Staff-Augmentation and Full-time Employee Placement services are the simplest form of our engagement with a client, where response time and skills fitment matter the most, we are capable of augmenting your staff as a contracting position or full-time employees. As an industry first, we are also open to risk-sharing staffing arrangements, where we go at-risk for a portion of our fees. In addition, we have one of the lowest fees in the industry for full time employee placements, with flexible payment terms. Staffing models can be onsite, onshore or offshore.

Try us to experience the difference.

We are working on exciting new solutions and products around JD Edwards EnterpriseOne to fulfill key whitespaces in the Oracle ecosystem.

Please write to us at info@9EDGE.co if you want to participate in ideation sessions with our Product Development team and/or if you have any co-development opportunities that can be mutually beneficial.

We are working on exciting new solutions and products around JD Edwards EnterpriseOne to fulfill key whitespaces in the Oracle ecosystem.

Please write to us at info@9EDGE.co if you want to participate in ideation sessions with our Product Development team and/or if you have any co-development opportunities that can be mutually beneficial.

We are working on exciting new solutions and products around JD Edwards EnterpriseOne to fulfill key whitespaces in the Oracle ecosystem.

Please write to us at info@9EDGE.co if you want to participate in ideation sessions with our Product Development team and/or if you have any co-development opportunities that can be mutually beneficial.