JD Edwards Customers Exploiting the Benefits of Oracle Cloud Where Agility and Innovation Meet Choice and Control

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Table of Contents

Disclaimer 1

Introduction 1

Opportunities with Oracle Cloud 3

Oracle’s Cloud Strategy: Value Proposition for JD Edwards Customers 3

Oracle’s Infrastructure as a Service Overview 3

Oracle’s Infrastructure as a Service for JD Edwards Customers 4

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Trial Edition 5

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Multitier Edition 5

Enhanced Agility, Productivity, and Cost Reduction with JD Edwards on Oracle Cloud 6

Oracle’s Platform as a Service Offerings 7

Cloud Services for Development 7

Cloud Services for Integrations 8

Cloud Services for Business Users 9

Cloud Services for Analytics 10

Oracle Platform as a Service for JD Edwards Customers 10

Oracle Private Cloud and Oracle Cloud Machine 11

Choosing Deployments: On-Premise to Cloud 12

Moving Forward With JD Edwards on Oracle Cloud 12

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Introduction

The fundamental reason to move to a cloud computing environment is that the pooling of elastic computing resources provides business agility, high efficiency, scalability, and availability, along with the added business advantage of significant cost reductions. Oracle has made significant investments in developing a broad collection of cloud services with solutions at every layer of the technology stack and the ability to move between the cloud and on-premise environments quickly and easily. Customers who deploy their solutions in the cloud derive huge benefit from the fact that they have access to Oracle’s entire technology stack in the cloud in the same way as they did in on-premise deployments.

JD Edwards customers have run EnterpriseOne in the cloud for quite a while via partner deployment or managed services. What deserves a fresh look is the fact that Oracle’s deep and diversified cloud platform provides capabilities that can put JD Edwards customers on a trajectory for dramatic business and technology transformation while continuing to protect and leverage their investment in JD Edwards solutions.

While the cloud undeniably represents a central focus for Oracle and has already resulted in a comprehensive set of solutions for customers, the reality is that many Oracle customers, JD Edwards customers included, continue to run their applications on-premise and have a vested interest in protecting this investment. How does Oracle reconcile its cloud focus with the needs of these customers? Oracle’s answer is to continue to provide a choice to customers—a choice that enables customers to make decisions on their terms and on their timeline about product adoption and deployment preferences. While each Oracle product line continues its development roadmap to serve its target markets and customer base, Oracle is actively promoting a coexistence or hybrid model that enables customers to adopt Oracle’s cloud platform to complement and augment their existing enterprise applications, such as JD Edwards.

For JD Edwards, this approach is the next logical step on JD Edwards’ technology path with Oracle. For more than a decade, JD Edwards customers have been realizing the benefits of running EnterpriseOne applications on a complete Oracle technology stack, including storage, servers, virtual machines, operating system, database, and middleware. JD Edwards has also taken advantage of Oracle technology to deliver new functionality. For example, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne One View Reporting uses Oracle BI Publisher, and business services utilize Oracle’s SOA Suite.

While running JD Edwards on the Oracle technology stack on-premise has been a mainstream choice for customers for many years, JD Edwards is now expanding this deployment model to include running JD Edwards on that same Oracle technology stack in Oracle Cloud. The similarity of the underlying

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technology stack logically introduces the prospect of hybrid deployment models, which in turn create even more choice and agility for customers. Within the JD Edwards ecosystem, it is quite common for customers and partners to maintain multiple instances of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne systems— sometimes isolated, sometimes integrated. These multiple instances might represent individual business units, geographies, development, test, training, or production instances. The prospect of adopting hybrid deployment models is eased by the fact that the same architecture, the same standards, and the same products are used to put the Oracle technology stack in the cloud as would be used to deploy the technology stack on premise. As a result, workloads can be migrated relatively easily between on-premise and Oracle Cloud. With the ability to run the same JD Edwards applications on the same technology stack either on-premise or in Oracle Cloud, customers can capitalize on the benefits of each type of deployment by using the optimal model for each purpose.

Another facet of the hybrid deployment model is the ability for customers to augment their JD Edwards implementations with other Oracle offerings, some of which themselves offer hybrid deployment options and others that are available exclusively as Cloud services. For example, many JD Edwards customers already take advantage of the integration capabilities offered by Oracle SOA Suite and have deployed that product in an on-premise model. Oracle now offers additional integration services that are Cloud-based, so customers have options about how they deploy their integration layer. Oracle offers dozens of Cloud-based services, and almost all of them will offer some value-add within JD Edwards implementations.

In practice, it is foreseeable that over time most, if not all, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne implementations will take on some aspect of a hybrid on-premise/cloud deployment. Customers who adopt hybrid deployment models by combining the benefits of Oracle Cloud platform with their JD Edwards systems will achieve cost and time savings, increase business agility, and increase the productivity of their workforce. In the hybrid cloud solution for JD Edwards, customers will experience how efficiency, agility, and innovation meet choice and control.

This white paper reviews Oracle Cloud services and deployment choices available to customers and explains how JD Edwards customers can construct a hybrid cloud solution combining the components of their JD Edward solution with those cloud capabilities that best complement it.

Oracle continues to provide the ultimate in choice for JD Edwards customers: The hybrid solution model encompasses on-premise, private cloud, and public cloud deployments, with the opportunity to

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exploit the capabilities of Oracle’s Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service to increase business agility and the ability to manage growth, increase productivity, and reduce cost.

Opportunities with Oracle Cloud

What are some of the conditions that would strongly warrant consideration of an Oracle Cloud deployment of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne? There are several scenarios where Oracle Cloud deployment becomes an opportunity. For example, a customer who wants to investigate the features of a new release could deploy a trial software version to the cloud as a quick and easy way to learn about the new features and technology. New customers can use a cloud deployment as a quick start option.

Customers whose infrastructure is significantly outdated can use a cloud deployment to bypass the cost and effort involved in updating the infrastructure on premise; they can simply take advantage of deployment templates that are built on current technology and functionality.

For customers whose enterprise workloads tend to vary seasonally or for other reasons, a cloud subscription plan can be an attractive choice because usage can be ramped up based on a cloud subscription plan that meets the customer’s workload requirements.

Finally, a cloud deployment provides an opportunity to lower the cost and accelerate development, testing, training, and disaster recovery because the business does not have to maintain its own hardware and infrastructure and always has the most advanced features available instantly via the cloud deployment.

Oracle’s Cloud Strategy: Value Proposition for JD Edwards Customers

Oracle’s cloud strategy focuses on bringing leading infrastructure, technology, business application, and information to customers and partners anywhere in the world through Oracle Cloud. To accomplish these goals, Oracle has invested extensively in an array of cloud services to help Oracle customers achieve their business objectives. Oracle’s overall cloud strategy, in turn, enables JD Edwards to empower its customers and partners with choice and control to deliver strategic advantage through on-premise, cloud, and hybrid deployments.

To evaluate how JD Edwards customers can take advantage of Oracle’s cloud offerings and design a hybrid solution, let us take a look at Oracle’s comprehensive cloud platform. Briefly, Oracle’s cloud platform consists of four major components:

» Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) » Platform as a Service (PaaS) » Applications: Software as a Service (SaaS) » Data as a Service (DaaS) Of these components, it is primarily Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service that provide the most immediate benefits for a hybrid solution of on-premise solutions running in the cloud. This white paper, therefore, focuses on these cloud offerings and how they can enhance JD Edwards EnterpriseOne deployments.

Oracle’s Infrastructure as a Service Overview

Oracle’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provides a complete infrastructure for enterprise workloads so that customers can run any type of workload in the cloud and run Oracle workloads in the most optimized way. Infrastructure as a Service consists of elastic compute services, elastic storage services, and network services.

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Compute services provide elastic compute capacity allowing capacity adjustments to address varying business needs. Customers can choose:

» Dedicated compute, which provides a completely dedicated compute zone for each tenant, predictable performance, and complete network isolation. » Shared compute dedicated core capacity provisioned on a multi-tenant compute resource. Both options provide secure access, a dynamic firewall, and lifecycle management to manage images and to orchestrate the provisioning and automation of lifecycle operations. In addition to compute services, Oracle Infrastructure as a Service provides storage for data backup and archiving. Storage cloud service is secured with data protection, such as built-in redundancy and encryption. The cloud storage solution actively monitors for data to prevent degradation and controls access to data and availability. Additional capacity is always available on demand, and data privacy is assured by keeping data in a specific geographic region.

The third component of Oracle Infrastructure as a Service is the network cloud service, which provides a fast and secure connection to Oracle Cloud—for example, a site-to-site VPN to extend an on-premise network to a dedicated Oracle Compute Zone or a high-bandwidth connection between a customer’s data center and Oracle Cloud services.

Offering a comprehensive set of infrastructure services—including elastic compute and storage—Oracle Cloud’s Infrastructure as a Service lets businesses run any workload in the cloud, and it does so in a fully integrated environment that has been optimized for the cloud and provides a unified security model.

Oracle’s Infrastructure as a Service for JD Edwards Customers

When customers subscribe to Oracle’s Infrastructure as a Service, they have access to all the compute, storage, and network services associated with it, including Identity Management. Provisioning is similar to deployment via a VM template. Customers continue to have the same deployment options as previously, but now Oracle Cloud is available as an additional deployment option.

Customers who already have an existing JD Edwards license continue to use this license and only pay whatever cloud subscription they choose.

To customers who are utilizing Oracle’s Infrastructure as a Service, the compute, storage, and network services are available without imposing any rules on how they are being used. The use of these resources is entirely at the discretion of the customers, as would be the resources of other cloud vendors.

The advantage of Oracle’s Infrastructure as a Service for JD Edwards customers is that Oracle has invested not only in Infrastructure as a Service but also in tools to help JD Edwards customers to deploy their EnterpriseOne instance in the cloud. In this way, Oracle is demonstrating its commitment to supporting on-premise customers with hybrid solutions.

JD Edwards has recently released three offerings of prebuilt templates that enable JD Edwards customers to take advantage of Oracle’s Infrastructure as a Service capabilities, specifically Compute Cloud Service, to support a hybrid solution that meets their business objectives. All these offerings are available for download from the Oracle Cloud Marketplace.

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JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Trial Edition

The Trial Edition consists of an all-in-one machine image of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.2 on Oracle Database 12 with demonstration data. This image includes Enterprise Server, HTML Server, Database Server, and BI Publisher for configuring One View Reports, as well as AIS Server for mobility and Internet of Things.

Figure 1. JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Trial Edition on Oracle Cloud

Customers can use this trial instance to evaluate and test standard Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne functionality and become familiar with the technology components and key features. Therefore, the trial instance includes demonstration data, but no tools for uploading customer data. As a testing instance, the Trial Edition does not include any management capabilities, such as Server Manager, deployment server, patching, or upgrading. JD Edwards regularly refreshes the trial instance available from Oracle Cloud Marketplace so that customers can quickly provision the latest EnterpriseOne 9.2 image for exploration.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Multitier Edition

In contrast to the Trial Edition, the Multitier Edition provides automated provisioning of a manageable multitier environment for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne. This offering includes a migration toolkit, which allows customers to easily move their business configuration, data, customizations, and patch level from their on-premise instance to Oracle Infrastructure as a Service. This offering also includes an instance of Server Manager and a deployment server for full manageability of the configuration. Because this offering includes Server Manager and a deployment server, it is more suited for real-world business use cases. As in an on-premise deployment of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, the multitier instance in the cloud can be managed using the Application Management Suite for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne.

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Figure 2. JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Multitier Edition on Oracle Cloud

The third offering is a variation of the Multitier Edition. It is composed of all the same components, but instead of deploying Oracle Database within a virtual machine on Compute Cloud Service, it taps into Oracle’s Platform as a Service with a subscription to Database Cloud Service (DBCS) to serve as the JD Edwards database. Customers have four subscription choices—Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition, Enterprise Edition High Performance, and Enterprise Edition Extreme Performance. JD Edwards EnterpriseOne can run on any of these options; customer should use Certify to evaluate the database features against their business objectives.

As with the Trial Edition, provisioning these multitier instances from Oracle Marketplace provides instant access to the most current software deployment without the effort involved with upgrades.

These offering represent only the first round of JD Edwards’s investment in functionality that will make it easier for customers to take full advantage of Oracle’s cloud services. JD Edwards is working toward making additional JD Edwards components available on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace. JD Edwards is also working toward simplification of the provisioning and management of cloud deployments.

The bottom line is that any JD Edwards customer who subscribes to Oracle Infrastructure as a Service has access to all the available functionality. The engineering efforts undertaken by JD Edwards are designed to make the provisioning and management processes easier and faster for customers.

Enhanced Agility, Productivity, and Cost Reduction with JD Edwards on Oracle Cloud

Cloud deployments of JD Edwards software provide an array of benefits for customers to consider, both from an IT and a business perspective.

By providing the Trial and Multitier editions of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne as described in the previous section, JD Edwards helps customers reduce the time and cost for new projects and new capabilities in several ways: » Deliver new features and respond to business needs faster by provisioning new development and test instances quickly. » Rapidly launch new implementation projects in the cloud and deliver critical features to users faster. » Aggressively drive business forward by easily evaluating new features and new products. Customers can enhance business agility and manage growth in several ways: » Streamline upgrades by testing on a cloned production environment in the cloud. » Test new products on their own cloned data. » Decrease the time to add capabilities by developing and testing customizations against a copy of their data.

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» Effortlessly manage on-premise and cloud environments from a single interface. » Expand to new markets and geographies quickly using Oracle’s worldwide data centers. A third benefit is the ability to increase workforce productivity:

» Gain flexible, unlimited capacity through on-demand scaling of computing resources. » Easily provision instances for co-development partners. » Achieve seamless coexistence between on-premise and cloud instances. » Improve ownership experience through interaction with just one vendor.

Oracle’s Platform as a Service Offerings

In addition to the infrastructure cloud services described in the previous section, Oracle’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) encompasses an array of cloud services that address the needs of key IT and business functions within an organization, such as application development, integrations, business tasks, and data analytics. One benefit of using Oracle’s Platform as a Service together with its Infrastructure as a Service is the seamless integration between them. At the same time, Oracle’s Platform as a Service uses the same standards, tools, and skill sets that are used in an on-premise environment. In other words, customers adopting Oracle’s cloud services for JD Edwards deployments can expect a good return on investment as a result of the speed and ease of implementation.

This section provides a brief overview of cloud platform services and describes how they can help JD Edwards customers meet their business objectives. Detailed information, including solution briefs, eBooks, and videos, is available from the Oracle Cloud Platform pages on Oracle.com.

Cloud Services for Development Developing and testing applications in the cloud is the most common use case for Platform as a Service today. Businesses develop and test new applications in the cloud or move the deployment and testing of on‐premise applications to the cloud.

Data management is supported by a set of cloud services for managing data for development or for production deployment to the cloud. Organizations can choose to store data on-premise, on Oracle Cloud, or in a hybrid cloud environment. Cloud services offer exactly the same Oracle database capabilities as those already available in Oracle databases deployed on premise.

The following table lists some of the cloud services that support application development:

Cloud Service Offering Features?

Developer Cloud » Ability to develop and deploy nearly any type of » Project creation, configuration, and user management Service application, including enterprise applications, » Source control repository through Git or GitHub to store lightweight container apps, web apps, and your source code mobile apps » Maven repositories to store your application dependencies » Simplified team-based development with a and libraries turnkey development environment » Task tracking system to track tasks, bugs, and enhancements » Continuous build integration through Hudson » Document collaboration through wiki support » Code reviews » Team management with live data dashboard » Deployment to Oracle Java Cloud Service or on-premise targets

Java Cloud Service » Increased developer and administrator » Self-service portal to provision your environment in productivity with self-service, agile platform minutes, and immediately start deploying your application

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» Rapid development, focus on business » Fully automated lifecycle management using advanced problems, and innovation tooling » Reduced cost with pay per use and instant » Powered by the industry’s #1 application server Oracle reporting of usage WebLogic Service » Zero code change to move applications to cloud » Runs on Oracle’s enterprise-grade compute infrastructure » Fully customizable for any Java application, with full administrative access » Standards-based platform for easy deployment of new or existing Java applications » Built-in high availability » Designed to handle any workloads for enterprises and startups » RESTful APIs for automation » Developer productivity tools such as Maven, Ant, Eclipse, NetBeans, and JDeveloper

Mobile Cloud Service » Pre-built mobile services (push notification, » Access common services storage, user management, and offline data) » Manage APIs in a catalog » Agnostic to client development tools » Wrap third-party APIs for use in mobile applications » Create and expose new services and APIs » Monitor apps through rich analytics » Integrated security » Secure mobile apps with built-in security » Analyze and measure business impact » Build APIs in JavaScript built on Node.js » Empower service developers with an API designer » Organize APIs into mobile backends

Node Cloud Service » Ability to deploy Java Standard Edition (SE) » Rapid self-service provisioning of dedicated and isolated and Node applications to the Oracle Cloud Java SE and Node runtime application containers in the platform and experience the performance, cloud availability, and scalability » Choose between recent releases of Java SE and Node and leverage any of the available libraries/modules and application frameworks » Select the amount of RAM your application needs and then scale up and out dynamically on demand » Cloud-based integrated development lifecycle tools for continuous integration and deployment

Database Cloud » Power and flexibility of Oracle Database in the » Full capabilities of Oracle Database, including SQL and Database as a Service cloud with your choice of a dedicated database PL/SQL support instance with full administrative control, or a » Dedicated virtual machine with a preconfigured database dedicated schema with a complete instance or dedicated schema development and deployment platform » General purpose and high memory compute shapes managed by Oracle » Flexible management options from self-managed to fully managed by Oracle » Rapid provisioning and easy-to-use cloud tooling for simpler management » Integrated Identity Management for user repository and single sign-on (SSO)

Cloud Services for Integrations Oracle Cloud Platform Integration Services simplify and accelerate the integration of cloud and on-premise applications, as well as heterogeneous data sources. With comprehensive cloud-based integration, customers can maximize the value of data and create innovative services quickly.

The following table lists some of the cloud services that support integration:

Cloud Service Offering Features

Integration Cloud » Self-service portal to activate your integration in » Productivity improvement for developers and Service minutes administrators with instant, self-service integration platform » Native connectivity to SaaS and on-premise managed by Oracle applications » Accelerated time to market with self-service provisioning

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» Graphical tools covering full lifecycle from and intuitive tools design to monitoring » Rapid deployment with readymade integrations from » Import and export integrations to Cloud Oracle and Cloud Marketplace Marketplace » Zero coding and configuration with point-and-click user interface » Highly available, scalable integration platform at your fingertips with simple subscription

SOA Cloud Service » Spend time on development and innovation » Rapid and fully automated provisioning instead of administration and maintenance » Oracle manages the infrastructure » Easily integrate with other Oracle PaaS and » Administrative features built into the platform to save time SaaS applications » Support for REST, SOAP, and other application adapters » Implement complex integration use cases by » Massive scalability extending Oracle Integration Cloud Service with » Mobile enablement–REST/JSON support SOA Suite functionality » Cloud integration through cloud adapters, SOAP, or REST » Enable Digital Business by exposing APIs in the » Complete access to the platform cloud and building back-end services for your APIs » Reduce development and operations expenses by accelerating your projects

Big Data Preparation » Data preparation cost and time reduced to a » Self-service data preparation owned by business users Cloud Service fraction of manual efforts » Powerful recommendation-driven process, leveraging a » Empowers business analysts to quickly extract unique combination of machine learning and semantic value from data technologies » Governance dashboard for users to monitor » Advanced transformation capabilities such as classification and solve issues with data curation workloads and enrichment from internal/external sources » Greatly reduces risks of error-prone manual » Import and ingestion of structured, semi-structured, and curation efforts unstructured data sets » Statistical profiling engine for identifying issues with data » Operationalize data flows into ETL or Business Intelligence » Monitoring and governance dashboard

Cloud Services for Business Users

Business managers need cloud-based services that can seamlessly blend content, people, processes, and communications as part of a cohesive workflow. Oracle cloud services enable you to empower your workforce with a new generation of connected tools that drive meaningful collaboration and mobility. Oracle cloud services also provide around-the-clock access to content in a way that is contextually relevant to the task at hand.

The following table lists some of the cloud services that support business users:

Cloud Service Offering Features

Oracle Process Cloud » Empowers business users with self-service and » Subscription-based business process management cloud Service process control tools service » Leverages rich connectivity to various back-end » Business-driven rapid process design and automation applications » Easy integration to on-premise or any other Oracle or » Enables mobile workforce productivity external cloud service offering » Enables innovative control and management of » Multichannel responsive interfaces across web, phone, and content, even in the cloud tablet » Leverages process automation in third-party » Powerful interactive dashboards, alerts, and guided tools and sites troubleshooting » Increases business visibility, agility, and control » Embeddable work management regions for portal mashups » Enterprise-grade security, control, and administration

Oracle Document » Increases collaboration and productivity » Cloud-based file sharing and collaboration Cloud Service » Empowers Mobile employees » Desktop Sync for Windows and Mac » Content-enable business applications » Mobile Apps for iOS and Android devices » Improves control and management of content, » Integration with Oracle Social Network to provide even in the cloud conversations and annotations on files and folders

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» Integration with Process Cloud Service to automate document workflows » Integration with Sites Cloud Service to publish content through microsites » Integration with Office tools to boost end-user productivity » Enterprise-grade security, control and administration » APIs for extending applications with content collaboration

Cloud Services for Analytics With a cloud-based analytics platform, businesses can combine data from any source—cloud, mobile, on-premise, big data repositories, Hadoop, Internet of Things—for a complete view of their business.

The following table lists some of the cloud services that support analytics:

Cloud Service Offering Features

Business Intelligence » Fast access and low cost speed time to value » Powerful analytics platform with advanced calculations and Cloud Service » Quick start so users are productive quickly analytic functions » A single BI platform for all users to consolidate » Easy self-serve data loading analytic investments » Rich data integration options » Timely access to data for greater impact » Mobile access with no extra programming required » Streamlined operations and reduced burden on » Comprehensive sharing framework IT » Role-based fine-grain security » Simple self-service administration

Data Visualization » Simple yet powerful visual analytics provide fast » Seamless self-service discovery and dashboards Cloud Service time to value » Self-service data loading and blending » Start analyzing immediately, without any » Automatic matching across data sets training » Powerful search, guided navigation, and filtering, all » Easy, low-cost subscription to start small and connected grow as you go » Automatic mobility with full authoring and easy viewing and » Automatic visualizations, data joining, mobile, navigation and more save time and keep you focused on » Visual storytelling with narrative and snapshots finding insights » Easy sharing of live insights » Easy to highlight and share insights in your » Presentation mode that hides authoring for easy display data, increasing collaboration » World-class security » Familiar online experience for easily finding » Available in Oracle Cloud, which means no maintenance what you are looking for and unlimited scale » No specialized resources or IT support required

Big Data Discover » A single, easy-to-use product, built natively on » Seamless self-service discovery and dashboards Cloud Service Hadoop to transform raw data into business » Intuitive, interactive and visually appealing user interface insight in minutes, without the need to learn » Turn raw data in Hadoop into actionable insight in minutes complex products or rely only on highly skilled » A single product with end-to-end analytic capabilities for resources Hadoop » Leverage any tools built on Hadoop open standards and from the Oracle big data portfolio

Oracle Platform as a Service for JD Edwards Customers

While the initial focus of JD Edwards’s engineering efforts has been to get customers up and running on Oracle Compute Cloud both for development and testing and for production deployments, these offerings tap into Oracle’s Platform cloud services as well. For example, customers have the option of subscribing to Database Cloud Service and take advantage of the features of this cloud service.

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JD Edwards customers today can subscribe to Oracle Platform cloud services and can pick and choose cloud services that support use cases for their business. At the same time, JD Edwards is pursuing its strategy of facilitating cloud service adoption by simplifying how customers can access and use them. For example, they can subscribe to Mobile Cloud Service and use it to manage the mobile backend for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne mobile applications and for analytics. As another example, customers can use Oracle Internet of Things Cloud Service to gather and process data from Internet of Things and integrate it to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne IoT Orchestrator. Oracle’s Integration Cloud Service enables customers to connect and integrate applications using prebuilt adapters.

Oracle Private Cloud and Oracle Cloud Machine

Customers may have data, governance, and control requirements that preclude a pure cloud deployment. Some industries or businesses have to comply with regulatory, legal, and privacy requirements demanding that sensitive data is stored on premise. These companies may also have custom security requirements. Businesses may also need or want to keep complete control over business-critical systems and want to use their own firewalls, load balancers, hardware VPNs, and so on. Nevertheless, customers acknowledge the benefits of a cloud deployment, such as ease of provisioning and elasticity

In these cases, companies could resort to a private cloud deployment as many have already done. Oracle has been offering Managed Cloud Services to help customers manage their private cloud deployments for some time.

In a recent departure, however, Oracle is offering the Oracle Cloud Machine which enables customers to leverage exactly the same Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service capabilities as Oracle Cloud, but in their own data centers. Customers can leverage cloud innovations while meeting any data sovereignty, privacy, and control requirements. Put differently, Oracle Cloud Machine makes possible an on-premise implementation of Oracle Cloud.

Figure 3. Oracle Cloud Machine – Cloud on-premise

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Choosing Deployments: On-Premise to Cloud

Over the years, JD Edwards has systematically taken advantage of Oracle technology for the benefit of its customers. In addition to promoting the advantages of the Oracle technology stack, JD Edwards engineering has built an array of EnterpriseOne functionality on Oracle technology—for example One View Reporting utilizing BI Publisher and integration capabilities using SOA Suite.

Hybrid cloud deployment options enable JD Edwards customers to access the technical capabilities of Oracle’s cloud platform while still relying on the trusted business capabilities of their JD Edwards EnterpriseOne solution.

By providing a complete and best-in-class suite of infrastructure and platform services, Oracle helps lower the cost of integration for users and reduces contractual and operational risk for enterprises. Oracle provides an integrated cloud platform including database services, Java services, analytics, and integration services. Automation eliminates a larger cost structure because customers are using software without having to operate it.

Another benefit is that Oracle offers deployment choices across private and public clouds: Complete compatibility supports easy coexistence and migration. The Oracle Cloud Platform also streamlines the workload migration by using a standards-based technology customers are already familiar with.

To choose optimal deployment for their businesses, customers can use the following evaluation criteria:

» Software: Perpetual license or subscription? » Hardware: Owned or not owned? » Fiscal model: Capital expense or operational expense? » Lifecycle: Long-lived or dynamic? » Maintenance: Customer or service provider? As customers choose for themselves among these criteria, they will architect solutions according to their own business requirements. It is highly unlikely that the ideal architecture will come down completely one side or the other—on-premise or cloud. For example, customers may want to continue to use the software license they have already invested in for their on-premise deployment, but may no longer want to pay to own their own hardware or perform their own maintenance. Therefore, it is likely that most ideal deployments will result in a hybrid model that allows many choices depending on the customer’s specific circumstances.

Moving Forward With JD Edwards on Oracle Cloud

Here are the next steps customers should consider to enjoy the benefits of a JD Edwards deployment on Oracle Cloud as quickly as possible. » Download a JD Edwards Trial Edition from Oracle Cloud Marketplace to get a first look at what a cloud deployment might look like. » Go to LearnJDE (the JD Edwards Resource Library) to find resources about JD Edwards on Oracle Cloud, with instructions about how to deploy the Trial Edition and Multitier Edition. » Go to the JD Edwards on Oracle Cloud page with links for downloading the Trial and Multitier Editions and links to resources about Oracle Compute Cloud. » Continue to follow Oracle’s Cloud story on Oracle.com.

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JD Edwards Customers Exploiting the Benefits of Oracle Cloud: Where Agility and Innovation Meet Choice and Control April 2016 Authors: Barbara Verble, Anthony Schifano Contributing Author: Sayandeb Bhattacharya