Joe McKendrick, author, independent researcher and speaker exploring innovation, information technology trends and markets, wrote an article in Forbes about how to find and keep people within your organization who will help keep your digital transformation on track. He spoke with Werner Vogels, Chief Technology Officer at Amazon, and Scott Snyder, partner with Heidrick & Struggles, about how to attract and retain people who will help keep your organization’s digital transformation on track.

Gretchen Alarcon, the Group Vice President for Human Capital Management Strategy at Oracle, wrote a blog about understanding the benefits of leveraging new technologies within HR and having a deliberate plan for innovation within your department.

Oracle released a tutorial video on the Oracle JD Edwards YouTube page that walks users through how to orchestrate a quick start deployment plan using the JD Edwards One-Click Provisioning Console.

Vanitha Raghavan, part of the Oracle JD Edwards Product Development team, gave a presentation about how to leverage JD Edwards UX One. The presentation covered delivered out-of-the-box content, managing User Defined Objects (UDOs), and what you’ll need within your environment to get started.

Naveen Joshi, a columnist and Founder and CEO of Allerin—which develops engineering and technology solutions focused on optimal customer experiences, wrote an article in Forbes about the concept of Artificial Intelligence as a security measure against cyber threats in today’s workforce. AI as a cybersecurity solution can help protect organizations from existing cyber threats, identify new malware types, ensure effective security standards, and help create better prevention and recovery strategies. Leveraging AI in this way has both limitations and solutions for challenges.

Making changes to your JD Edwards EnterpriseOne environment can seem like a scary task. Many find themselves second-guessing or questioning a million things before applying the change to their Production environment. Whether you’re applying the latest Tools release, upgrading to 9.2, or applying a new ESU, there is a way to make your testing more efficient and ultimately ease your mind when making changes in your JD Edwards system. Linda Sloan-Compton, the ERP Analyst from Pinal County, gave a presentation about how they leveraged a tool to gain testing efficiency and documentation with consistent processes within their modules.

IoT Production Monitoring and the JD Edwards Orchestrator work very closely together to avoid disruption within JD Edwards Manufacturing. IoT Production Monitoring gives you visibility into your factories and production process. It also helps you monitor health and utilization, predict and diagnose issues, and minimize downtime. JD Edwards Orchestrator can alert you of met or broken conditions and help you make smart decisions to solve your problems.

Over the last few years, First Capital Realty transformed its ERP system from a bloated ERP with a variety of disparate systems to a leaner, Hybrid ERP with a combination of Cloud and On-premise solutions. The final stages transformed it into a Hybrid ERP with integrations that allow for smoother processes, time savings, and costs savings.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Release 9.2.3 was recently released on November 8, 2018. This update included enhancements to features like Orchestrator, Notification Message Center and My Worklist, Form Extension, UX One, and platform certifications. The release also included the enablement of 64-bit processing for the Enterprise Server and Development Client—joining the previously 64-bit enabled HTML, AIS, BSSV, and RTE servers. JD Edwards has already supported 64-bit hardware, operating systems, databases and middleware for multiple years.

Syntax Systems ("Syntax"), a leading provider of cloud-managed ERP services is pleased to announce the acquisition of EmeraldCube Solutions, an Atlanta-based company providing business technology solutions to JD Edwards customers. This acquisition extends Syntax's capabilities by adding EmeraldCube's industry-leading software solutions such as EmeraldPrism, EnCrypto, FraudID and EmeraldVision. With the addition of EmeraldCloud, an end-to-end business application deployment and management platform based on Amazon Web Services' (AWS) Public Cloud, Syntax is now even better positioned to help its customers and prospects with their journey to the Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud. Syntax is a portfolio company of Novacap TMT IV, a Montreal-based private equity firm, which also provided the equity financing for the transaction.