Many IT professionals don’t feel like they’re making a difference. For various reasons, they feel undervalued and unappreciated. Those reasons range from executive absence, unrealistic expectations, inadequate budgets, shrinking headcount, to “shadow IT” efforts. I take these stories to heart because I, too, have experienced these disappointments. As such, these conversations motivate me to ask, “How do we stop the madness?”

During Quest Forum Digital Event: JD Edwards Week, Ilan Zachar, CTO and Senior Vice President of Carr Properties, shared how Carr embraces innovation and made a move to integrate an AI Lease Abstraction system that had no integration with JD Edwards, but through understanding automation and JDE’s Orchestrator, was able to package a perfect solution. 

The Critical Patch Update for January 2021 was released on January 19, 2021. Oracle strongly recommends applying the patches as soon as possible.

Every day, we hear how the world is changing through tech and innovation. But the strategies we use to lead our companies, teams and stakeholders don’t seem to match the need. There are plenty of battle scars to prove it: Gallup reports 70% of all change initiatives fail and that the US economy loses up to $150 billion a year due to failed IT projects. For me, this reality created a burning desire to help. -- Chris Laping