JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Reviews

I do a lot of research for our customers, the aim being to provide them with a great solution for their environment. I don't focus on one company or on one product. It's important to figure out which system will actually provide the best return on investment for the business and the industry. I'm a customer and reseller of JD Edwards and my position in the company is COA. Our company also has a partnership with Oracle and with Microsoft. 

I like the fact that the solution is very customizable according to business needs and adaptive throughout your business processes. It's not very rigid but they've also got all IRFS standards in line for whenever something changes, and you can just apply that to your accounting standards. The strength of the product is that it provides an audit trail regarding what has happened and who was responsible. It's also a very easy to use solution. Already for many years, on the manufacturing side, the orchestrator and the robotics were already in place. It was already embedded as part of the process and their functionality was really good.

I think they could maybe expand the financial side. It's not complex but they could perhaps bring in things like the IMS. Aside from that, I think the manufacturing is really good. I think it's one of the best of all the ERPs, they have very good manufacturing.

It's difficult to pinpoint additional features to include because everything depends on your company and the industries and clients you work with because normally what JD Edwards does is follow the needs of the client and industry standard specifics. They constantly make small improvements and implement innovations. That said, I would like to see more use cases so new customers can see references from existing customer experiences in different industries. 

I've been working with this solution since 1991. 

We generally get support from our internal consultants who gained experience years ago from clients and consultants who communicated regularly. That's generally how issues are resolved and the consultants on the technical side probably resolve servicing questions and the like. I think the consultants within JD Edwards EnterpriseOne are very self-sufficient.

The initial setup is not complex. If you just follow the instructions then the set up is fine. You just need to grasp the terminology that they're using and the structures of the data and the cloud, and follow what they tell you to do and you'll be fine. You don't really need to be a rocket scientist, there's a logic that you need to apply.

In around 2007, JD Edwards went through a dip and most customers moved to other solutions. Here in South Arica, most government institutions and other clients actually started buying SAP. The company then started doing quite a bit of research and made drastic improvements. Today there are few ERP systems that can actually compete with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne.

For a long time already, it's been possible to run the solution on any mobile app. I like the fact that there is competition because you need different ERP's that work in certain sectors or certain industries and don't always try to cover everything. For example, there are certain ERP's which are very strong in financial institutions.

I would rate this solution a 10 out of 10. 

It has simplified the process completely, and even though it has many features which are available in the market now, but it is on par with the other ERP software solutions available in the market now.

One feature is that J.D. Edwards supports any software it integrates with.

It's a 100% stable product. In past versions, there were issues of instability. But, now it is entirely stable, as long as it is properly maintained and properly implemented.

It can be scalable to any extent. There are no issues and no boundaries. We find for J.D. Edwards to scale. It can serve small medium and large enterprises at the same time.

Originally, there were some complications with implementation. But now, it is very simple to set up and get everything going in a couple of months. Oracle has done tremendous work on improving the issues that we were facing on the J.D. Edwards front, and they fixed all those issues. Now we do a straight forward, simple plug-and-play installation, so there are no problems technically now.

The pricing of this solution costs an arm and a leg. This keeps the customers away from going for J.D. Edwards.

We compared:

• JD Edwards EnterpriseOne vs Dynamics AX
• JD Edwards EnterpriseOne vs SAP
• JD Edwards EnterpriseOne vs Red Hat. 

We selected JD Edwards because technically it was sound, and commercially, it came at a good price. It was a great value.

When looking for a new product, definitely consider:

• Stability
• IT technology
• Value

• Financial management
• Operations management
• Integration with distribution and retail software

• Cost management
• Sales reporting
• Accounting and manufacturing controls, with a low cost of management, within a very small IT team (less than six people).

• BI reporting and customization
• Easy configuration
• Access and visibility of different business processes on a single UI. 

• Workflow management
• Integration with IoT solutions
• Ease of deployment over Microsoft products (aside from Oracle DBMS).

Maximizes the investment via industry focus, flexible personalization, configuration, product scalability, and mobile options.

Productivity, efficiency, automation and process simplification.

All areas across the company, providing a strong platform in order to improve and accelerate business processes.

15 years.

Minor issues.

No.

In a few words, the support is good. The only concern is that they don’t have enough knowledge of AS400 and JDE EOne combination.

No.

The initial setup was mostly quiet.

Some modules are expensive and there is an annual software maintenance cost as well.

No.

It is really important to select the correct partner for implementing this kind of project.

In our case the decision was to split the project into three stages.

1. Procure to Pay Process
2. Order to Cash Process and finally
3. Commercial Process.

Easy to set up, user friendly, and continuous functional and technology enhancements.

Good example was locating, tracing, and tracking transactions and this wasn’t easy before having the ERP.

Customer / Supplier Relationship.

20 years.

I would scale stability 8 out of 10.

No

Good.

No

Straightforward in many ways, defining COA, master files, and setting up parameters.

Customers should look for ERP solution that more or less satisfies their own business requirements.

Microsoft Dynamics.

Customers should have well-defined business processes and workflows regardless of the ERP product.

It is user friendly and an easy tool for development.

• Data integrity
• Fast reporting system
• Easy access through web explorer
• Reduces paperwork
• Online data

The warehouse and logistic systems need improvement.

We have been using EnterpriseOne since 2007.

We had system corruption twice. This was fixed by installing the full package and then regenerating it.

We encountered issues with scalability. This was mostly because of our old version, E8.11.

Our company was using AS400 with OS400 with RPG programming. We switched to E8.11 due to limited technical support.

The setup was very complex, since we are still using the AS400 platform with a DB2 database.

We evaluated SAP, but it was more expensive.

I always advise people to implement the latest version, regardless of the product.

• JDE software development kit, including application design aid, report design aid, data dictionary, table design aid, business view design aid, table conversion, EDI (electronic data interchange), named event rule, C business functions, UPK (user productivity kit), business services.
• In JDE Version 9.1: E1 pages, one-view reporting, Cafe One, watch list.
• In JDE Version 9.2: IoT (Internet of Things)

All are valuable features of this product. So, all these features are very important, but from my point of view, I like EDI and z-file processing; these features allow clients to integrate old legacy systems into the JDE Enterprise One System.

Our organization is totally a development team; we have developed applications and report components per client requirements, so as of right now, I would not be able to provide an example of how this product has improved the way my organization functions.

Currently, you are not able to copy the NER in the software development framework.

There is also room for improvement in business services and IoT.

I have used it for the last 4.6 years; mostly working from the technical side.

We have not encountered any stability issues.

We have not encountered any scalability issues.

I think technical support is 10 out of 10.

We did not previously use a different solution.

I don't know about price and licensing but JDE is one of the best software, which satisfies client requirements easily.

I don't know if other products were evaluated.

I think JDE would be the best to implement it.

It carries out warehouse automation for a logistic company.

The application is growing and should include a lot of improvements over a short period of time.

I have used this solution for around 15 years.

There were no stability issues.

We did not have any scalability issues.

The technical support level is quite good.

This product is an ERP tool. The level of complexity depends on a lot of variables. Generally, it is straightforward.

This product is for medium/large companies, i.e., those with sales of more than €20 million.

Find a good IT company to implement it. A project could fail if you don't have the correct partner.