JD Edwards future and support plan

The future of JD Edwards has been discussed and we have confirmation the rolling 10 years will continue.?Oracle has chosen to extend premier support for Oracle JD Edwards Enterprise One 9.2 through at least 2034, reinforcing their commitment to customers and product innovation.?Oracle’s objective is to provide some sense of peace for JD Edwards customers in delivering a stable and predictable long term support policy enabling customers to maximize and expand their existing investments with ample time for future planning.?Customers can gain access to new features and capabilities as updates to their existing 9.2 release without having to upgrade and run the same application on-premises or in Oracle Cloud infrastructure (Iaas).

JD Edwards 9.2 has been described as the last release with feature updates and tools coming through rather than new application releases reducing the demand to create large upgrade projects.?The work that we are seeing in JD Edwards currently is heavily focused on business process, integrations of multiple systems, enhancements to corporate structures, and enhancement work.?We have seen a noticeable decline in JD Edwards upgrades.?Without specific data on % of marketplace on 9.2, we estimate a larger than 50% and even up to 75% of the marketplace is on 9.2.?The continuous release of enhancements to 9.2 delivers numerous new products and capabilities that enable customers to transform their business.?By adopting modern best practices and leveraging their investment in existing technology, the competitive advantages offer opportunities to be successful.

"JD Edwards" was founded in 1977 by Jack Thompson, Dan Gregory, and Ed McVaney; the company's name is drawn from the initials "J" for Jack, "D" for Dan, and "Edwards" for Ed. As the majority of JD Edwards's customers were medium sized companies, clients did not have large-scale software implementations. There was a basic business need for all accounting to be tightly integrated. As McVaney would explain in 2002, integrated systems were created precisely because "you can’t go into a moderate-sized company and just put in a payroll. You have to put in a payroll and job cost, general ledger, inventory, fixed assets and the whole thing.?PeopleSoft acquired JD Edwards in July 2003 for $1.8 billion. Oracle then acquired PeopleSoft Inc. for $10.3 billion and JD Edwards is currently is a part of Oracle corporation. Much of this stands true to day and JD Edwards has been built as lasting ERP system, while falling into legacy category currently, its legacy should continue to evolve as a useful and actively used ERP system.