The Quest community is deeply saddened by the recent passing of John Schiff, former Vice President of JD Edwards Business Development. John was a long-standing pillar in the JD Edwards community. He played a central role in the overall management of JD Edwards' relationships with customers for more than 20 years before retiring in 2017.

“JD Edwards: A Year in Review and a Look Ahead,” was presented by Oracle’s Lyle Ekdahl, Mike Fabijanic and Chris Cole, as part of a series of webinars related to the direction of the JD Edwards solutions and how these solutions facilitate digitization of information to help customers create competitive advantage. Topics coming soon to…

Quest was pleased to speak with Wilker Costa, the IT manager at Refinaria Nacional de Sal S.A., also known in its native Brazil as Sal Cisne. Wilker’s team has applied updates and implemented JD Edwards IoT Orchestrator, learning valuable lessons along the way. A brief intro to Sal Cisne Sal Cisne produces around 240 thousand…

Oracle JD Edwards released a new lease accounting standard that will change job functions for many leasing and financial professionals. Specifically, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) have issued IFRS 16 and ASC 842 to make a critical change in lease management processes. According to the press release, “The effective date for public companies is starting with reporting periods beginning on or after December 15, 2018 and with private companies required reporting on or after December 15, 2019.”

Explore the benefits of your JD Edwards investment by getting the most out of your current toolkit. You can do this by knowing what you're looking for, setting realistic measurable goals and learning what you have.

Getting personal Oracle’s Karen Brown and Louise Farner show us how easy it can be to personalize the JD Edwards user experience with JD Edwards UX One functionalities. We started looking deeper at Notifications and Watchlists and learning how to organize Composed Pages (UX One Landing Pages) based on the Alert, Analyze, and Act paradigm.…

The Quest Education team was pleased to speak to Jeffrey Lewis from Batesville Casket Company about the company’s easy transition process to 9.2. Lewis oversees the JD Edwards processes and integration processes within Batesville’s IT team. Upgrading was easy with JD Edwards, and the results have paid off. Batesville now has a more modern environment…

In a recent interview with Bob Monahan, vice president of product management at JD Edwards, we found some insights into what JD Edwards plans to deliver in the coming years. Take a look at Monahan’s opinion regarding digital transformation (DX). We’ll reference a few other important points later in this piece. Interviewer: What is the…

Quest and Oracle kicked off their 2018 Webinar Series with a presentation from David Greiner, principal product manager at Oracle JD Edwards, who joined us for this comprehensive webinar about the ease of use and user control manufacturing professionals get from implementing UX One for Manufacturing. UX One works for manufacturing UX One delivers role-based…

When we last left off speaking about the capabilities of JD Edwards updates, we talked about the importance of staying current with  health checks and changes to REST API. Oracle made these enhancements due to changes in Oracle’s Server Manager, Oracle’s database administration tool. For the latest, hands-on information about software updates, we'll be hosting…