Oracle introduced JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Release 9.2 in October 2015. It provides transformational business capabilities for customers to address the demands of the digital economy. Innovations and enhancements include capabilities for strategic business transformation, mobility, and real-time insights.

Here is a short summary of what EnterpriseOne 9.2 can do for your organization:

Industry Business Processes

• Advanced Job Forecasting – delivers key capabilities for project-focused industries, such as engineering and construction to prevent project cost overruns due to lack of detail forecast visibility and to provide more accurate cash flow management throughout the project lifecycle. Advanced Job Forecasting provides project managers with significant new capabilities to capture and audit the expected detail labor and material expenses remaining on a project. The forecast can include anticipated material quantities and material cost changes as well as specific skill sets and pay levels required for remaining job phases. Furthermore, users can save and compare multiple forecasts (what-if scenarios) and store audit trails of forecasted versus actual factors.
• Outbound Inventory Management – optimizes inventory performance and significantly reduces the business complexity for suppliers in the consumer goods, manufacturing and distribution industries providing vendor-managed or consignment inventory services for their customers. Outbound Inventory Management manages the complete VMI/Consignment lifecycle from defining agreements through ordering, shipments, invoicing and replenishments, supporting stronger customer collaboration, reduced customer stock-outs, and improved forecast accuracy. These capabilities result in increased customer loyalty which translates to improved supplier profitability.
• IoT Pre-built orchestrations – reduce implementation time with these useful and informative orchestration models:
  • Add CBM Alert: Processes assets’ condition-based maintenance alerts.
  • Update Meter Readings: Updates equipment meter readings.
  • Update Equipment Location: Updates equipment geo-positioning data.
  • Kanban Check In/Check Out: Processes Kanban check-in and check-out transactions.
  • Add Blend Operations: Creates operations in Blend Management during the wine-making process

Technology and User Experience

• Page Composer – provides a simple, intuitive interface that empowers business analysts and users to create their own EnterpriseOne Pages. Users can configure role-based EnterpriseOne pages into dynamic, personalized layouts to include applications, reports, and watchlists delivered by Oracle, as well as external information. The Page Composer complements the existing Page Generator which provides more advanced capabilities for creating pages using JavaScript.
• Active Content Pages empower industry users via a modern “Alert-Analyze-Act” User Experience JD Edwards provides a modern dynamic user experience utilizing industry-specific personas and roles based on an “Alert-Analyze-Act” paradigm. By delivering consolidated, easy-to-use views of alerts and data analysis, Active Content Pages allow users to focus on the most important business insights. Direct navigation to applications enables users to execute actions that require their attention. Role-based Active Content Pages push to users what is important at the point when they need it, without searching to determine where to spend valuable time. Active Content Page views use many JD Edwards user-defined components such as Café One, EnterpriseOne Pages, One View Reports and Watch Lists, Advanced Queries, personalized grids formats, and data visualizations via the Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit (JET).
• User Defined Objects – a simple and standardized process to manage user personalizations. Enabling users to personalize their experience and interaction with JD Edwards without customization improves their productivity and satisfaction. This simple process allows business users to manage personalizations on their own schedule and removes the need to spend IT resources on deploying User Defined Objects. These objects currently include Grid Formats, Queries, One View Reports, One View Watchlists, EnterpriseOne Pages, and the Composite Application Framework.
• Simplified Upgrade Process – significantly reduces the cost of upgrading for customers on Release 9.1 or 9.0 Update 2 by identifying and replacing only the objects as delivered by Oracle. The Simplified Upgrade process reduces the time and effort required for retrofitting customizations into Release 9.2.
• Customization Workbench – For JD Edwards EnterpriseOne customers who retrofit customizations as part of an EnterpriseOne applications upgrade or ESU update, the Customization Workbench is an upgrade simplification solution that groups detected customized objects together in a simplified user interface for easier management.
• With Tools 9.2, JD Edwards has removed the 10 character restriction for user ID and password to support more robust security authentication processes. This enhancement enables security officers to define complex password rules that align with their security and compliance requirements. User IDs have also been expanded to improve the end-user experience when signing into JD Edwards.
• New REST Services are available for use with the JD Application Interfaces Server (AIS) to allow retrieval of data directly against business views and tables. This direct access simplifies the retrieval of specific values from a table or of data for other processing in the orchestration.
• The Internet of Things (IoT) Orchestrator Studio is built for the business analyst—not the programmer—to design and deploy orchestrations. The new IoT Orchestrator Studio provides an intuitive graphical user interface that allows a business analyst to create the rules, cross-references, and service requests that make up an IoT orchestration. The graphical user interface of the IoT Orchestrator Studio enables business analysts to build and deploy their own orchestrations without requiring programming skills.
• Oracle Cloud Marketplace – Oracle recently announced the availability of two EnterpriseOne offerings on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace.
  • The EnterpriseOne Trial Edition is a single all-in-one image that can be provisioned in an hour without additional hardware capital cost. The Trial Edition enables customers to explore new functionality in EnterpriseOne 9.2, such as new industry modules, One View Financial Statements, Internet of Things Orchestrator, as well as mobile applications and user experience enhancements.
  • The Development and Test offering provides automated provisioning of a multi-tier environment for EnterpriseOne. This offering includes a migration toolkit that enables customers to easily move their business configuration, data, customizations, and patch level from their on-premise instance to Oracle Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and optional Oracle Database Cloud Service, provisioned on Oracle’s Compute Cloud Service. As a result, customers can quickly provision new instances of EnterpriseOne, reducing capital and administration cost while increasing business agility.

Application and Reporting Functionality

For US based employers, EnterpriseOnehas been enhanced to support the Affordable Care Act Employer Shared Responsibility provisions. EnterpriseOneprovides features to help define which employees are considered full-time for the purposes of the Affordable Care Act and therefore eligible to receive health coverage. Hours of Service Reporting and Eligibility functionality enables applicable large employers to determine whether employees should be considered full-time and therefore eligible for health coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) provisions.

This information was originally published in Issue 3 2016 of Q&A Magazine.