Throughout its lifetime, Orchestrator has proven to be a powerful and versatile tool. In fact, it’s evolved into a Swiss Army Knife which can be used as an integration middleware platform, standalone RPA system, web services tool, frontend to mobile applications, and the list goes on. At Quest’s conference, BLUEPRINT 4D, in May 2023, Oracle’s AJ Schifano, Nicole Laurent, and Aaron Johnson shared orchestrator’s integration competencies.

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How important to the JD Edwards community is business process automation?  Who’s transforming their development process with personalizations and extensions?  Is Orchestrator still a big focus for organizations?  Who’s working on staying code current?  To answer these questions and more, Quest recently surveyed JD Edwards professionals to find out which JDE projects their companies are focused on over the next 12-18 months.   These insights will be used to build out Quest’s 2022-23 programming for the JD Edwards community.

Topping the list of priorities (see Chart 1) for 44% of respondents was implementing or expanding Orchestrations, followed by leveraging JDE technologies to drive business automation (40%), staying code current (34%), using low-code or no-code tools (32%) and upgrading to Release 22 or beyond (30%).