Oracle recently announced the availability of EnterpriseOne Tools Release 9.2.5.3, which supports EnterpriseOne Applications 9.2. Oracle JD Edwards continues to invest in digital transformation, user experience, system automation, security, and open platforms by delivering Tools Release 9.2.5.3.

Oracle also announced the availability of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Applications enhancements that make JD Edwards applications easier to use, more powerful, and more comprehensive in their support of customers’ business processes. These customer-driven product improvements focus on eliminating pain points by providing more flexible business process configuration and by simplifying the user experience. In addition, legislative, regulatory, and localization enhancements are available that help customers maintain compliance in all the countries they operate in across the globe.

Combined, these JD Edwards Tools and Applications enhancements empower companies on their business transformation journey.

EnterpriseOne Tools Release 9.2.5.3

Digital Transformation

Digital transformation platform enables you to participate in the digital economy, transform business processes, and adopt new technologies. It greatly simplifies how you integrate with third-party systems and cloud services, receive real-time accurate data from the Internet of Things devices, and build alternative user interfaces such as mobile applications. JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools features that drive digital transformation ultimately transforms how you use your EnterpriseOne system and enhances its value to your business.

The following enhancements support customers on their continuous path to digital transformation:

• Select Multiple Rows in a Form Request
• Pass a Version to a Report Service Request
• Array Variables for External REST Calls
• Return REST Header Parameters as Orchestration Variables
• Pass OAuth 2.0 Client ID and Client Secret in the Request Body of an Orchestration
• Secure Session Balancing Across AIS Servers
• Health Check for Basic Auth Configuration for the AIS Server
• User Defined Object Dependencies with Orchestrator Components

User Experience

User experience enhancements enable you to optimize the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne user interface and align it with the requirements of your user community and their business processes without further technical development and future debt associated with traditional application customizations. Empowered with a platform for extending and personalizing the application forms and the data they act upon, your technical staff, business analysts, and end users can collaborate to streamline the user interface for simple and optimized business processes.

Learn more about the following enhancements:

• Form Extension – Add Associated Description to Edit Control on a Form
• Enhanced Browser Support for Media Objects

System Automation

System automation provides your technical team with the tools they need to automate manual and repetitive administrative processes such as object management, troubleshooting, and batch management. This frees up your IT resources to partner with other departments of your organization to improve processes and drive innovation.

Security is ensured through secure authentication, access, and monitoring at every layer of the architecture while adhering to ever-changing industry security standards.

Open platform offers you choice and control over the underlying computing architecture on which you run your EnterpriseOne system. General industry trends are constantly changing and specific releases of hardware, operating systems, databases, middleware, and browsers are frequently updated. JD Edwards continually certifies the latest platforms to ensure that customers have a stable, modern platform for adopting future innovation.

Learn more about enhancements for:

• Improved Business Continuity with Native Oracle Database Connection Management
• Default Browser for Web Development Client

Platform Certifications

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne deployments depend on a matrix of interdependent platform components from Oracle and third-party vendors. The product support lifecycle of these components is driven by their vendors, creating a continuous need to certify the latest versions of these products to give customers a complete technology stack that is functional, well-performing, and supported by the vendors. Tools Release 9.2.5.3 includes the following platform certifications:

• Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.4
• Oracle Linux KVM
• ODBC Driver 17.6 for Microsoft SQL Server
• IBM DB2 LUW 11.5.4.0 on IBM AIX 7.2 TL3 SP3 with 64-bit JDE
• Apple iOS 14
• Safari 14 for Mac OS
• Google Chrome 88
• Microsoft Edge Chromium 88

Support for the following platforms is withdrawn with Tools Release 9.2.5.3:

• Apple iOS 12
• Google Chrome 76

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne certifications are posted on the Certifications tab in My Oracle Support.

The updated version of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Platform Statement of Direction is published on My Oracle Support (Document ID 749393.1). See this document for a summary of recent and planned certifications as well as important information about withdrawn certifications.

Application Enhancements

JD Edwards application enhancements are focused on delivering high-value customer-driven improvements that prioritize configuration over customization, enhance user productivity, and extend business processes. Configuration improvements focus on delivering flexibility in support of business processes, thereby eliminating the need for customizations. Productivity enhancements, supported by applications that continue to benefit from the ongoing JD Edwards Tools investment in the extensibility framework, focus on user experience improvements and business process simplification. Oracle also continues to extend existing business processes to support evolving and more complex use case requirements as well as focus on supporting new business processes through the creation of new applications and functionality.

Learn more about enhancements for the following applications:

• Procurement
• Requirements Planning
• Manufacturing
• Quality Management
• Inventory Management
• Warehouse Management
• Grower Management
• Contract and Service Billing
• Homebuilder Management
• Order Management
• Human Capital Management
• Financials
• Cloud Integration
• Legislative, Regulatory, and Localizations

Check out LearnJDE and the additional resources attached below for more information on Oracle’s recent announcement.