As you start to consider moving your JD Edwards system to the Oracle Cloud, it’s important to understand the different services that Oracle offers. You can choose to optimize your system with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), extend it with Platform as a Service (PaaS), or complement it with Software as a Service (SaaS). To give you a better understanding of each option, check out this breakdown of what each service looks like.

Mark Hurd, the CEO at Oracle, wrote an article about two business opportunities with blockchain that are worth considering. Blockchain is the distributed ledger for sharing information securely across different organizations. This emerging technology is becoming increasingly popular, and CEOs are starting to ask how it can help boost revenue, increase productivity, streamline cost and create a better customer experience. Mark outlined two ways that blockchain can make an impact within organizations.

Jenner Jensen, Director of Business Solutions, and Brian Hale, Manager of Technical and Cloud Operations, spoke about how Federal Signal, a large multi-national manufacturing company, moved their on-premise JD Edwards EnterpriseOne system to the Oracle Public Cloud.

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.

Over the last several months, we have heard a lot of great customer success around the usage of JD Edwards. It's exciting to hear about so many customers seeing really positive results with today’s JD Edwards. We want to broaden our reach and provide an opportunity to recognize great results. To do that, we, in partnership with Oracle JD Edwards, are launching an “I Love JD Edwards" program.

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.