INFOCUS 19 is right around the corner! This year’s conference will take place August 20-22 in Denver, Colorado at the Sheraton Downtown Denver. It is the premier deep-dive JD Edwards focused event of the year. Join 400+ JD Edwards users and enjoy 200+ deep-dive JD Edwards education sessions, direct interaction with the JD Edwards Product and Strategy teams, and networking with other customers and 30+ vendors.

Barb Darrow, Senior Director of Communications at Oracle, wrote about today’s “unprecedented challenge” of cybersecurity. Technological and legal complexities are continuing to grow in this age of heightened cybersecurity threats—including a rise in state-sponsored hacking. This “unprecedented challenge” was a topic of conversation between Dorian Daley, Oracle Executive Vice President and General Counsel, and Edward Screven, Oracle’s Chief Corporate Architect during Oracle’s recent Media Days.

Chris Murphy, Director of Cloud Content at Oracle, spoke with Sarabjeet (Jay) Chugh, a Senior Director of Emerging Technology Products at Oracle, about how to determine if blockchain fits into a company’s project. Since there is so much recent excitement about emerging technology and the potential of blockchain, today’s workforce faces the risk of project planners applying this technology to problems that it doesn’t fit with. Chugh’s intention is to help organizations avoid that issue, sort out business use cases for blockchain, and decide if blockchain or a different solution, like a database, is the best fit.

The 2019 Distinguished Service Award Winners have been announced! These awards are given to members of the community who have been recognized as those who embody Quest’s core values.

Syntax Systems ("Syntax"), a leading provider of cloud-managed ERP services is pleased to announce the acquisition of EmeraldCube Solutions, an Atlanta-based company providing business technology solutions to JD Edwards customers. This acquisition extends Syntax's capabilities by adding EmeraldCube's industry-leading software solutions such as EmeraldPrism, EnCrypto, FraudID and EmeraldVision. With the addition of EmeraldCloud, an end-to-end business application deployment and management platform based on Amazon Web Services' (AWS) Public Cloud, Syntax is now even better positioned to help its customers and prospects with their journey to the Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud. Syntax is a portfolio company of Novacap TMT IV, a Montreal-based private equity firm, which also provided the equity financing for the transaction.